tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30125765312135323972024-03-05T08:55:37.804-05:00Beaded by Sandra
Beaded by SandraSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12170614782994562801noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012576531213532397.post-15045245677790245572013-05-05T17:48:00.001-04:002013-05-05T19:06:03.473-04:00Simply Beautiful<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An afternoon drive with my husband.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blue sky, warm air, wonderful company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We set out on a quest to find a certain place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Parked the car and approached with our cameras in hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I approached, I started taking a few pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found these small patches of tulips...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... and then turned to my right and this is what I saw...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a collection of tulips like I have never seen in my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't believe my eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The simplicity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The peaceful feeling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The purity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The colors were dazzling and the lighting was perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks Jeff!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The good news is our power is back,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have heat, hot water and a toasty snack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My prayers are with those still in need</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will help who I can and do a good deed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I owed you this blog as I promised and vowed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The others are done and I have been wowed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel my piece is simple, not very frilly,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm mostly down to earth yet pretty darn silly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received the goods from <a href="http://www.suburbangirlstudio.com/" target="_blank">Diana P.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A pendant that reminded me of a beautiful tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also along was <a href="http://misheldesigns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shel's</a> wonderful clasp</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I quickly held on with a very tight grasp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My wheels started turning and I began to ponder,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I kept hearing "autumn, trees and nature's wonder."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I headed upstairs for a bit of escape,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I couldn't even find my work space!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were packages and beads and "stuff" all around,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My dreams of sitting and working were drowned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see if you look very close,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My chair is covered with wire, my tumbler, a package and looks gross!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I looked at my table and what did I see,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not barely a square inch to create just a wee!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started to clean and put things away,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And before I knew it I started to play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tree and all that it represents,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's leaves, bark, and woodsy scents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought about nature and all that abound</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tree is a home standing firmly in ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I poked and I prodded through my stash,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pulled out some wood beads that I bought for some cash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a variety of this kind of bead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Used as many as I could with a quick rate of speed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found round beads, square beads and oval ones too,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How they make them, I haven't a clue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used black beads and brown beads, many shades of each,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All made from trees within human reach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's more than the wood that comes from a tree,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are flowers and fruits and even some tea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of critters make their home in a branch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Birds and squirrels are given carte blanche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started to pull beads from here and there,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While trying not to pull out my hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found flowers and birds and waxed Irish thread,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This piece will be finished before heading to bed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pendant I knew was the main focal piece,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adding bits here and there, used some major elbow grease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It started to grow just as a tree will do,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An acorn and bird just to name a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All critters need a safe place to live,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A tree has such place to offer and give.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I added a cute little blue house,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a squirrel, chipmunk or even a mouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very near to the house as you can see,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is the copper clasp that <a href="http://misheldesigns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shel </a>gave me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's swirls and curves and natural flow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reminded me of how a tree's bark may grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The components I used have something they share,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are all made from nature with nothing to spare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was my goal when making this piece,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Didn't want to be reported to the "Plastic Police."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hop on over to these others who knew,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That using these pieces could not have been done</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without <a href="http://www.suburbangirlstudio.com/" target="_blank">Diana's </a>and <a href="http://misheldesigns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shel's </a>pieces of fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diana Ptaszynski <a href="http://www.suburbangirlstudio.com/">http://www.suburbangirlstudio.com</a></span><span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jenny Davies-Reazor <a href="http://www.jdaviesreazor.com/blog">http://www.jdaviesreazor.com/blog</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kristen Stevens<a href="http://kristen-beadjourney.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> http://kristen-beadjourney.blogspot.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marie-Noel Voyer-Cramp <a href="http://skyejewels.blogspot.com/">http://skyejewels.blogspot.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sandra Basara Miller <a href="http://www.sandra5461.blogspot.com/">http://www.sandra5461.blogspot.com/</a> <--- You are here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle Buettner <a href="http://misheldesigns.blogspot.com/">http://misheldesigns.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
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Happy Saturday! I hope everyone will have a good weekend despite this heat wave some of us are experiencing. I think we are just going to stay inside and try to get some things on our "to do" list accomplished. For myself, that includes spending time in my jewelry workroom.</div>
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At the beginning of every new year, I always set a goal for myself. Something that I've been wanting to do, dreaming about, trying to accomplish ~ my own little personal goal. I usually do not share this goal with anyone and keep it to myself. This year, my goal was to have a piece of my handmade jewelry published. A few friends gave me some tips and the encouragement I needed to send something in to a magazine for possible submission. I submitted one piece to Interweave for their <i>101 Bracelets, Necklaces, and Earrings </i> publication and found out a few weeks later that it was accepted! I remember receiving the email in the middle of the day while in between classes. I shared the good news with my next class, geometry. They were just as excited as I was!</div>
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You can purchase either the magazine version or the digital version <a href="http://www.interweavestore.com/Jewelry.html?SessionThemeID=20&a=iwpsite" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Here is a sneak peek of my necklace ... featured in the "Lipstick Red" category!</div>
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I feel very blessed to have accomplished my personal goal. Actually I feel doubly blessed because another one of my creations was also accepted for another jewelry magazine due out in the fall. Stay tuned!</div>
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<b><u>An Ode to Diana and Jan</u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was asked months ago to be part of her design team,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diana, the Suburban Girl, she really made me beam!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We must design something pretty or she will throw us under the bus!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Jan Onipenco, I can't wait for us to meet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a "beachy" type theme. I was thrilled and yelled, "Oh yes!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They look so darn real as if picked from the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you Diana for making me beam</span></div>
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Please take a look at the other members of the design team and their creations...</div>
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Diana Ptaszynski<a href="http://www.suburbangirlstudio.com/" target="_blank"> http://www.suburbangilrstudio.com</a></div>
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Kristen Stevens <a href="http://kristen-beadjourney.blogspot.com/">http://kristen-beadjourney.blogspot.com</a></div>
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Jan Onipenco<a href="http://moltenmayhem.typepad.com/" target="_blank"> http://moltenmayhem.typepad.com</a></div>
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Marla James <a href="http://marlasmudmoments.blogspot.com/">http://marlasmudmoments.blogspot.com</a></div>
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Sandra Basara Miller<a href="http://www.sandra5461.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> http://www.sandra5461.blogspot.com</a> <--- You are here!</div>
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Michelle Buettner <a href="http://misheldesigns.blogspot.com/">http://misheldesigns.blogspot.com</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Resources: Trinity Brass, The Beadin' Path, Monster Slayer</span></div>
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My husband and I ventured into New York City on Saturday. There is a bus that leaves from our town right into Port Authority - quite convenient. We were in the city by 10 a.m. ~ just in time to do some shopping in the bead and fashion district! I love perusing the bead stores in NYC. I usually find some goodies. Here is what I came home with from this trip.
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I love buying chain in New York. One store in particular usually has some pretty styles. I managed to get four different kinds; one with fish, one with dainty flowers, another with hearts and one with some unusual links. I also bought a good supply of jump rings, lobster clasps and ear wires. A new clasp that caught my eye is the third photo in the bottom. They are pretty clasps that feature a leaf. We then found another store where they had a large assortment of wooden beads. I fell in love with what they had especially the chain! It is beautiful and came in four different finishes. There was an assortment of wooden beads in all shapes and sizes and we had fun picking out a great assortment. I can't wait to make a few designs with these! The last treasure of the day was something brand new ~ cotton pearls. I picked up some round cotton pearls in various colors (not photographed - sorry) and also some spring colored rings. The colors are so luscious! I picture them in simple earrings or as links in a bracelet. Love all the new goodies!</div>
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After bead shopping, we hopped on a subway and headed all the way downtown. We arrived at Washington Square and had lunch in one of our favorite cozy restaurants. The food is excellent and the wine list goes on for what seems like infinity.</div>
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After a hearty lunch we headed over to Washington Square, one of my favorite spots. You never know what you are going to see here and Saturday was no exception. It was a bright sunny day and there was plenty of action to take in. This young man pushes his grand piano into the park every day and plays and plays and plays. Absolutely beautiful music. Our son later told us they are trying to get him removed from the park. </div>
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One more very special photo that I captured...just happened to be in the right place at the right time. The musical pair of a violinist and guitarist were playing Beatles' tunes the entire time we were sitting in the park. I love the Beatles' music and it was just fun to hear their rendition. As we were sitting there, the couple next to the musicians in this photo got engaged. Life is sweet! The woman was already on her cell phone sharing the great news!</div>
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We then ventured over to NYU where our son was a part of <i>Into the Woods</i>. It was a quaint theater right on campus and you were so close to the actors you could really feel their emotion. What a great show by the cast, crew and pit orchestra. Stephen performed well and was a very funny steward in the program. We are so proud of him. He also informed us that he was accepted into NYU's study abroad program and will be heading to London next year for spring semester. It was so nice to see him even though there wasn't a lot of time. He had another performance at 8 p.m. that night and we had a bus to catch. What a great day!</div>
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<span style="line-height: 25px;">I was so excited when I found out that I had been chosen for Diana Ptaszynski's (Suburban Girl) Design Team. After discovering Diana's beads, pendants and charms on etsy, we became friends on facebook. We actually met one another (along with some other amazing Bead Babes) at the Berks Bead Bazaar in Reading, PA. I must say that Diana is a hoot! She is one very energetic and vibrant woman but also has a soft side to her as well. She is a sweetheart and a good friend. Another funny thing is that Diana is married to Colin Mellars and I am married to Colin Miller. And yes, the "Colins" met in Reading and sat in the lobby while the Bead Babes shopped...such good sports.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 25px;">After I received the "spring" bead from Diana I realized I already bought this bead from her a while ago and I could just simply hook them on some ear wires, making a pair of earrings - but I wouldn't do that - not even on April Fool's Day. Diana also included a very pretty lamp work bead made by Jan Onipenco.</span></div>
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The beads arrived in this sweet little bag and this is what they looked like! Very pretty!</div>
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<span style="line-height: 25px;">When I saw Diana's bead it reminded me of spring time. The flowers are popping up all over the neighborhood and color is plentiful. Jan's bead carries hues of purple, blue and gold which added to the flash of flowers scrolling through my head. I remember buying some lucite flowers and thought I would make a little "garden" surrounding Diana's bead.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 25px;">After careful placement of each and every flower, I added a few leaves to the "garden." I really like how the lucite flowers are in the background and your eye still gets drawn to the focal pendant. Wrapping around the back are two strands of soft colored leather and I finished it with more lucite flowers dangling from both sides of the leather.</span></div>
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Viola!!</div>
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It is Friday morning and I'm actually at home today. I've been fighting a migraine all week and decided it was time to take a day and get myself feeling better.</div>
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I'm so excited to be a part of Suburban Girl's Design Team. We have one of Diane's ceramic pendant and a lamp work bead from Jan Onepenco. We received our beads a few weeks ago and our designs are due on Sunday, April 1, 2012...no joke! :)</div>
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I cannot wait to share my design with all of you on Sunday.</div>
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The sun is shining brightly here on the east coast today...hope it's shining wherever you are!</div>
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Sorry to be a day late, but my Bead Soup is finished! Here are the beads that I was sent by Krafty Max.</div>
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A selection of black and pink beads and a nice butterfly clasp.</div>
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Here is what I created.</div>
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I decided to make a necklace using the three strand butterfly clasp. Honestly, most of the beads were used up making this piece.</div>
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I am so excited to have been one of the lucky 200 participants in Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Party. My partner is Krafty Max. Looking forward to participating!!</div>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12170614782994562801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012576531213532397.post-52398095583865555332011-10-25T20:01:00.001-04:002011-10-25T20:01:07.546-04:00What a giveaway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<a href="http://orrtec.blogspot.com/2011/10/550-giveaway-and-huge-handmade-sale-you.html">http://orrtec.blogspot.com/2011/10/550-giveaway-and-huge-handmade-sale-you.html</a>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12170614782994562801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012576531213532397.post-78005113687463872312011-10-24T19:15:00.002-04:002011-10-24T19:15:55.594-04:00Just sayin...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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<i>Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)</i></dd>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12170614782994562801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012576531213532397.post-20333394221763283922011-10-18T22:16:00.000-04:002011-10-18T22:16:29.396-04:00On My Way...<div style="text-align: center;">Right after school tomorrow I will be heading to the NCTM (National Council for Teachers of Mathematics) Regional Conference. This will be my fourth time attending the conference and my second time as a presenter. Have any of you ever heard of the Golden Rectangle or Golden Ratio? That is what my presentation is about. I will basically be teaching other math teachers several activities to do in their classrooms that have to do with the Golden Ratio/Rectangle. They will be learning about Fibonacci's rabbits and the European villages along with how the Golden Ratio is found in nature, architecture, music and art! I took an interest in this concept a few years ago and the more I read about it, the more I discover. The excitement is setting in as I have a time slot on Thursday morning - opening day of the conference. I'm honored to share my workshop with other teachers as well as attend many workshops to learn from others.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I've decided I'm going to set a goal for myself. I took an etching class with Kim O'Neill this past summer and really enjoyed it. The ferric chloride that I ordered finally arrived and I bought new plastic containers to use for this project. I have quite a bit of copper upstairs in my work area and am going to make an effort to make some etched pieces; components for jewelry.<br />
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Have a great night!Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12170614782994562801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012576531213532397.post-27356659016254206782011-10-02T20:38:00.000-04:002011-10-02T20:38:45.970-04:00FrustratingOkay, for the past two hours I have tried to get a blog to look somewhat like I want it to look. I "think" I have a photo that I like for my banner...now just to figure out everything else. There might be a Blogger for Dummies book that I should invest in.<br />
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Took part in the Love My Art Jewelry cyber sale today. There were a lot of nice things for sale! Hope you all enjoyed it.<br />
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Back to school tomorrow. Going to be a busy week.Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12170614782994562801noreply@blogger.com0