The soup I sent

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bead, Bead Soup Blog Party, crystal, pearl, pendant, polymer clay

The bead soup I sent has been received by my partner Wendy Chamberlain, so here are some clearer photographs 🙂

I had intended to put together a soup starting with a chunky toggle similar to the one I made for the Art Bead Scene challenge back in August 2013, but after seeing Wendy’s work I kept thinking about this polymer clay pendant I made a while back. It has a funky back too…

I already had the co-ordinating purple pearls, teal crystals and green lucite flowers. All I had to do was find a dainty clasp.

Remember the blog hop is 3rd May 2014, so come back then to see what everyone makes with their delicous bead soups.

Space Rock and UFOs

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bead, crystal, focal bead, handmade, necklace, pearl, polymer clay

Because the babies don’t leave me much time to clay, I have been working on “quick win” projects like earrings, and completing some of my UFOs (unfinished objects).  A while back, I experimented with diy expanding foam as a core for polymer clay. At the time I decided to wait and see if there would be a reaction between the polymer clay and the polyurethane foam – that was now nearly two years ago (:o) and so far all is well.

I call the focal bead “Space Rock Creature”. I used a mix of glass beads, crystals and pearls (faux) to string it, and I found a home for some of the beautiful stone oval beads sent to me in the Bead Soup blog party back in 2012.