Focus On Life: Hearts & Feel The Love (5/52 and 6/52)

I was naughty and missed last weeks Focus on life post. Not that I purposely missed it. I actually did not see any hearts around me at first. And when I did see some sweet little hearts sprayed painted on the road, I did not have my camera.  So after a afternoon of doing laundry and hanging up towels and blankets, They do not fit in my mini dryer.. I looked down at the grass that is turning a vibrant green and saw a patch of clovers in the dirt. Ran inside and grabbed my camera and took some pictures.

I also have two valentine tins that are covered in hearts. Mark dented one of them and the other is in the van. He is not home right now.  I plan to make bead caps with them. But have been delayed.

 The Macro setting on my point and shoot camera is not best and It was very uncomfortable to crouch down and take photos.

Now on to this weeks post.

 Feel The Love 

I feel allot of love from my three kids and my soon to be husband. Mark and I are planning out actual wedding date, well the day that we will get a marriage license. We will not have anything fancy, no wedding dresses and such. Just something very intimate, most likely at his mom's house. So seeing this is a photo prompt post. I shall leave you with pictures of my three kids.. Thank you for stopping by..

Timothy

Mya and Timothy

Mason

My Bead Table Blog Hop - Pine Ridge Treasures

I was lucky enough to have met Lisa about a year ago on a bead swap hosted by Lori Anderson. I befriended her and was lucky enough to have been one of the girls in her "Bead Table Blog Hop". I do not believe I took before photos, of just the beads.

Handmade jump rings and clasps.

 I slowely made items over the past few months. Between teenage drama, baby needs and a husband.. Not to mention general life getting in the way. I mostly created earrings. They are easy to whip up and can be done standing at the counter cooking meals.

Galvanized steel frame  with gold craftwire.

I am trying to make as much as possiable. But my muse is down in the depression dumps. Things will turn around and once they do, I will have more to post. Lisa sent me a beautiful mix of earthy tones, and the ceramic-stone type beads. They are a beautiful rich brown. I hope you have enjoyed my few designs.

Handemade paddle headpins and earwires.

Thank you Lisa for hosting the blog hop. I really enjoyed it!!

6th Annual BSBP, Reveal One

I am late posting my BSBP photos. I would like to thank Lori Anderson for accepting me as a participant. I would also like to thank my partner Norma Turvey for sending me the most beautiful soup. I did not take the best photos during this fun time. Which I have learned my lesson. :)

This is the lovely box that my soup was in.

I love the box that Norma placed my soup in. Once I have used up all the beads I will move this box to a special place to be admired. :)

The brown and tan beads mix beautifully.

I had a ball just looking at these beads and even brought them to my bed and decided what I was going to designs, One necklace was created in my bed while the baby slept in the crib next to me.

These lampwork beads and clasp are just beautiful.

I did not use all the lampwork beads nor have I used the beautiful headpins. I am new to wire wrapping and would not want to mess them up.

The brown stone focal is beautiful. It makes me smile when I see/touch it.

Now on to what I designed with these beautiful beads. I am still planning to use up the rest of the soup once my wrapping skills advance.

Brown crystals, Brown and Black rounds and gold seed beads

This was the first bracelet made, I love the crystals. I have to change clasps this one is a cheap thing that keeps sticking.

I made this chain out of jumprings, The clasp was a gift from Patti Vanderbloemen

I used the gold seed beads and pearl like beads to make two stacks of dangles. The chain is made out of simple brass and gunmetal jumprings.

Here is the second bracelet I made, With handmade chain

I used jumprings purchased from Lori Anderson and basic brass ones, I thought the clasp Norma sent was to beautiful to be at the back of a necklace. So it is used as the focal in this simple bracelet.

Red leather lace, and my beautiful focal.

This is a very simple necklace, It has various pearl dangles, round dangles, and crystal dangles. I am new to using leather lace and had issues wrapping the ends. :)

This is the first necklace I created. The clasp was from Patti Vanderbloemen

I created this necklace in bed. I  had to restring it a few times and finally decided to add chain that I had purchased a few years ago and horded. The glass rounds  were purchased from the Lovely Lisa Lodge.

How the necklace hangs.

I am down to the last necklace designed. And I am surprised I did not make any earrings. I will have to make some. :)

This is one of the beautiful lampwork beads Norma sent.

The chain was a gift from Mark, for my birthday, I added two drops, one of flowers and the other is a blue and orange crystal. I hammered the end of the wire to keep them in place. The lampwork is coverd by yellow crystals from Lisa Lodge. And It was an attempt of wire wrapping. One more picture.

How this necklace dangles.

My photographing skills need work and I need better props. I do hope you enjoined your visit, And will be visiting all your sites through out the week.

Summer Color Blog Hop

Lisa Lodge of Pine Ridge Treasure, hosted a destash and blog hop for those who purchased a random bag of beads. I fell Iove with the bag of beauties she sent me.

My color was pink and peach. I am late at posting this as always. I made three pieces and still have some beads left over.

Below you will find my lucite bracelet a shell necklace along with a freshwater pearl necklace.

Thank You for visiting my blog. :)