7000 Bracelets

Me and 110 other creative types are participating in
The Global Genes Project, 7000 Bracelets for Hope. 

A call went out for participation from Lori Anderson of  Pretty Things.  Please show your support by letting others know through your blog or your website about this community of millions that have a rare disease.....awareness is just the beginning.

Off the Beading Path...........

It's late but I wanted to post....nothing involved, nothing elaborate, but a reminder, not only to myself, but to everyone because...........

It really does!

So, try a.....

Everyday!

Until then.............Happy Beading!

Before the Awesomeness Giveaway Winner is Announced.....just a few words

Thanks to all of you for visiting and commenting on what you've shared lately.  I'm not sure if you took the opportunity to read the comments of the other participants that commented about how they've shared but it was in a variety of ways...ways that can make a difference to someone. 

So I put all your comments together and thought I would take a picture for posterity.  

My husband kept saying that the cat could pick the winner but I'm thinking that's not really going to work.....she'd start playing with all those pieces of paper and they'd be all over the place and she'd never be able to pick just one piece of paper.  And I really didn't think it would be very exciting for me to look at those pieces of paper, shut my eyes, and pick a winner.  So, my next logical choice?   My husband.  He's wanted to be on my blog, so this was his opportunity to make an appearance.  Fortunately, he wasn't asleep yet!!!

Ok, it was the night before, (and it's almost midnight) but I'm not revealing the winner until today!

And the winner of the

Awesomeness Giveaway

is

the Fabulous Leslie

from

Mad Maggie Designs!!!

Please e-mail me at

suite7bijouxdesigns@comcast.net

so I can get your Awesomeness in the mail!

Until then................Happy Beading! 

It's Packaged and Ready

The Awesomeness Giveaway is packaged and ready to go.........I've been holding onto this box because I love it so but want someone else to enjoy it now.....maybe it can be passed on again to someone else. 

Thank you to Chris from Ferry Tales Gifts for sending my purchase from her etsy shop in this beautiful box.  Now I'm passing it on.......remember, it's about Making it Special.

So, if you're just reading this a wondering what's going on......please read my post on my Awesomeness Giveaway.

Until then...........Happy Beading!

The Very Best Part........

The Altered Book workshop was totally fun and went way too fast.  We learned some basic techniques as that's about all time allowed.  But they were techniques that you can build on.  Much to my surprise the instructor provided each of us with a book for our class.  So the dilema of which book to alter and should I really cut up such a beautiful book was suddenly gone.  

I hope I'm not getting hooked, but if you can go by some of the supplies I purchased after class, I don't think I can deny that I'm hooked. 

My book was called Heart and Soul

These are just a few of the techniques we learned

Making a pocket

Embellishing a page by sewing on a button and attaching a domino with wire

Make a niche and a compartment for a drawer

I still have the front and back of the book to work on, gluing more pages together, and adding embellishments.

But the Very Best Part was meeting some wonderful people in the workshop whom I hope I will see again!  For me, that's what it's about.

Until then.............Happy Beading!  (Am I going to have to start adding.....Happy Altered Bookmaking?)

Altered Books.....Can I Do It?

Do I really need to get involved with another medium?  Come on, I'm having a hard enough time keeping up with what I'm doing now.  So even though my inner voice was telling me, don't go there, my brain decided that I should sign up for an Altered Book workshop at my local scrapbooking shop, Rosie's Art Carnival.  

So then I went in search of an old book....should it be a really good old book or an old book that had seen better days?  Off to St. Vincent DePaul's in search of a book.  I think I found a couple of real treasures..........look at these books?  Do I really want to cut up A Sherburne Inheritance or The Hilltop Girl.  These are covers that you don't see too much of these days.  I know I definitely wouldn't consider cutting up French Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century.  I'll admit, I probably won't read them and unless I become fluent in French I won't be able to read French Lyrics.  I have one more back-up book just in case I can't take the knife to one of these.

This book was just too good to pass up....who knows when I'm going to have to look up a French word....although I'm sure there a lot of new French words since this book was published.  I thought it would be great as a back-drop for some of my jewelry photos.

I'm off to the beach to take on a new interest....maybe I'll have something to show and tell when I return.

Until then...........Happy Beading!

The "New" Moi

The feeling came over me that I just needed a certain, ooh la la for my blog.  But how was I going to satisfy that feeling?  The thought of me attempting to re-design my blog didn't give me that ooh la la feeling.

I was so very happy with the banner and avatar for my shop Suite7 Bijoux Designs designed by Jeanne at Earlybird Graphics, it was a natural decision to ask Jeanne to do her magic again for my blog.....she was great to work with and totally enjoyed the experience.

What do you think?  I love it....it's my ooh la la feeling!  C'est magnifique! 

    
Until then..........Happy Beading and Enjoy!