Ornament Thursday: Celadon

Whoa…where did the time go? I’m chasing myself and nearly missed Ornament Thursday. But never fear, I’ve got a Joolz pendant that seems to fit the theme for this month: Celadon (pale green) just perfectly.

If you want some history on “Celadon” (primarily the ceramic glaze finish and its origins) check this Wikipedia link…fascinating stuff!

“Celadon” just sounds cool and calming to me (can you hear me chanting “celadonceladonceladon” as I furiously type this blog entry). I’d love to have a nice flat bead in this shade…to keep by my desk and use as a ‘worry stone’. But for now, thiswill have to do.

I looked around and found my interpretation of the color in this pendant:

Glass button shaped lampwork beads in the palest of green (in this case also from a vintage glass that has the finest bubbles throughout) that certainly looks like “Celadon” to me! The beads were made by Susan Sheehan and I’ve combinded them with various Hill Tribe silver beads to create this pendant.

Here’s what a few of the OT gang came up with. Check back as we are likely to update links tomorrow too.

Celadon Dreamer
Michelle Zimmeman creates a dreamer box from one of her molds and Helen Bradley grabs another for her jewelry project.

Embellished Ear Wires
Lynn Kvigne of Beading Help Web shows you how to create these embellished ear wires in spring colors (like Celedon!)

Farm Girl Roots, City Girl Style: Celadon

Strands of Beads
Melissa creates a simple necklace from a slab of chysoprase

 

ArtXtravaganza Time!

I’ve been scrambling for a week to tie up loose ends, finish jewelry, get show gear ready and generally the stuff busy women need to do to get out of town for a few days.

Tomorrow I’m headed to Knoxville, TN for several days to exhibit in the Webb School’s annual ArtXtravaganza Show. It’s this weekend, March 6-7 at the school if you are in the area. Stop by…as you can see there are some fabulous artists!

I’ll be exhibiting with my friend Shawn (well, we are both in the show with separate exhibits) and staying with her sister. After the show closes on Saturday night, I’m on my way to Crossville for a few more days of relaxing with bead friends at Casa Ramey. I am so looking forward to a stress-free few days…no drama, no work (well, less work), no worries. Especially after busy days on my feet at the show.

When I get back I’ll focus on loading any extra Joolz on Etsy and also get going with my destashing of excess beads. I’ve not had time to focus on those with the prep for the show and an influx in book design projects. “It’s good to be busy.”

I’ve also got a stash of Melonhead beads from various generous beadmakers and I have lots of ideas for them. It is such a blessing to have their support for my Melonhead Joolz. Once I have them made up, I’ll post pics and links and more personal thanks.

One of those generous beadmakers, Lori Greenberg, surprised the daylights out of me last week…first with a gorgeous set of Melonhead watermelon themed beads (pics later) and second when she emailed me that I won her drawing for FREE BEADS! Talk about walking on air. I’ll have those beads when I get back home, but be sure to check out Lori’s site for some of her amazing work!

See ya later…still have to pack and sort and such.

 

Ornament Thursday: Heliotrope by any other name is my favorite color (Purple)

It’s Ornament Thursday again!

The theme this month is “Heliotrope”, which I was pretty sure was a shade of purple. In fact, it’s a “light tint of purple”. I immediately thought of these beads, which I made into this fun necklace. Susan Sheehan made these pinwheel glass beads and I’ve loved the color. But then I am a fan of purple in all shades.

It looks more light purple in person so blame my photo skills. The glass “wheel” beads are just a lot of fun. But then when I was looking further, I thought maybe Heliotrope is more like this color:

More of Susan’s beads in a whimsical pair of earrings. You just can’t help but smile at purple. And these beads are probably truer to looking like the flower in the heliotrope plant.

In case you have doubts, here’s a true heliotrope plant. Looking at it, I guess the color is somewhere in between both of my examples.

Image from Wikipedia.com

Check the other OT members sites to see how “Heliotrope” makes it’s way into Ornament Thursday.

Farm Girl Roots, City Girl Style
Check out Linda’s necklace and don’t miss the giveaway!

Heliotrope-Ornament Thursday
Did someone say violet?

Heliotrope: Purple by any other name…
Lisa waffles on what shade of purple is really “Heliotrope”

Ornament Thursday is here!
Michelle Zimmerman gets funky with these home made mica shift bead earrings and Helen Bradley secretly raids someone else’s bead box for a fun silver bracelet.

Shelly…
Michelle shares a heliotrope layout of her her and her fish!

 

TIME, Time, time…look what’s become of me…

There’s your earworm for the day…take the Bangles version or the Simon & Garfunkle version…in any event I need more time!

For blogging, for jewelry, for me.

Well, I have been working on #2 and #3. Indulge me and keep checking for #1.

Here’s some of what I’ve been up to.

An excessive amount of earrings! A jumble of Joolz.

Here’s a little more organized look:

Why so many? I’m headed to Knoxville, TN very early (like “o’dark-thirty) on March 4th for a weekend art show at the Webb School. Check the link for some of the fabulous artists that are exhibiting Thursday through Saturday at this well-known school fundraiser. I’m one of a handful of jewelry designers chosen to exhibit along with this fabululous artwork.

So I’ve been working on earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces, accessories…you name it. If you can put a bead on it, I’ve got it. I started earlier than usual for me. The slowdown in my other business made that part easy. Good thing because the phenomenon (as yet unnamed by me) of work showing up in an inverse proportion to the amount of time you have left before a trip has occurred this week. So my Joolz time is this weekend and that may be it before I leave. There’s still packing for the show (my first long distance one, so I’ve got to be on my game with prepping) and finishing up book projects. Plus my parents are coming in this week for some golfing (we are projected to have mid- to high-70s all week). They are great houseguests but you can’t ignore the fact that there are two extra people in the house when I’m used to no one there during most of the day!

So, I’m in “super productive use of time” mode. I really do much better when I have too much on my plate..perverse reality.

After the show, I’ll be back to more regular blog updates (I promise!) and if you are in the Knoxville area, be sure to stop by the show and say “Hi!”

I’ll leave you with a few other pics:

 

And We Have a Winner! OWOH

The Random Number Generator has spoken and Comment #291, Ninnie of Ninnie’s World is the lucky winner.

I was tickled to get 311 entries, even signing up to participate late in the game as I did. I hope everyone bookmarks my blog to return to from time to time. I know I’ve added many new blogs to my list of online reading!

Hope everyone has plans for Valentine’s Day.