Bead Soup is Now Served

Here is my bead soup creation. My husband remarked that its different then what I usually create but I love it. For me, the whole idea of a mystery bead soup mix is to push yourself into new places to see what happens.

The beautiful beads I received from my partner, Lisa,  had a vintage quality to them and the focal, in contrast, was more contemporary and highly textural. I sat with the beads and mulled around ideas until I came up with this. I was inspired by a fellow designer, Blynn of Recklace Necklace, who uses vintage elements in her work. I had bunches of these metal flowers laying around and at the last minute decided to use one as a focal.

Because I felt that the focal bead was so different from the rest, I decided to make more large holed beads with a similar feel. Each was different still but united by the blue/green range of colors found in the reactive glass. I linked them with a barbed wire type of link....at least thats what I call it.

I hope you like what I did with my lovely bead soup mix. This was great fun and really pushed me. I hope to be part of another Bead Soup party in the future!