It's All about the BEADS

Again... another great time with a great challenge

to create something a little creative

and a lot of fun...

 

I have had a lot of major changes in my life over the past few weeks here... and I am so very glad that I have had the ability to now share with you this project. 
I started quite a few project for this... and finally came down to create this... as I felt it would be something that more of you might TRY, on your own. 

A little background....  into that idea. 

 

I had on my schedule to work on my quilt...

but I re-arranged the style of the quilt...

and then my husband and I sat down to put the final

touches to it...

and realized that the place I was going to hang it,

that this would not work...

I have French doors in my studio and wanted to use the quilt

to help keep out the cold winter weather...

 

so....

a few tears and

back to the drawing board...

 

so I came up with something that I think everyone can do..

and it is a lot of fun to create this...

and hopefully a lot of you will make one of these...

 

it is PAPER BEADS...

 

Oh I know ... that is kids stuff...

I made my first paper beads when I was a kid...

sure you did too...

but these are a little bit different...

 

Think of them as CHARMS...

 

Charming CHARMS...

 

Well I have again built another blog

to take you thru the processes of making a

CHARMING NECKLACE... 

 

Step by step you will find

all kinds of ways to create

the PAPER BEAD

with ease and fun...   

 

 

No two beads are alike...

that is why I love these beads..

 

So click on this line and you will see the beginning of this process... 

 

This is what I am calling a 'DANGLE' that you will be building...

it is actually two paper beads...  you will be able to create this after watching this..

 

 

When all the DANGLES are in place...

you will need to make the necklace actually a necklace...

and you will see how right here... 

 

After the necklace is a necklace...

I added some more CHARM to it...

Charms that I bought...

 

 

 

When all done...

what a sheer delightful arrangement of color

texture,

and love... 

 

WOW...

 

 

 

And now...

as you totally expected from me...

another necklace... 

right??

 

Here it is...

 

Very different... and you can see it up close here 

 

 

I so hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and will make a few necklaces as presents for people you LOVE...

they will love them...

 and you will have a ton of fun creating them too... 

 

Hope you enjoy the season and send love to all of YOU

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie   

 

 

 

 

Fall in the MOUNTAINS

So very many things are happening in my life at this time, and I have had to change around a lot of the things I use to do... one is that I have had to pack up my studio and condense it into half of what it was...  so I have had limited supplies at hand... also my time is being detoured into other areas as well... all it good... and I love change... in all ways... so this actually is something that I am having to "go with the flow" as they say... 

So I decided that if I was going to have to limit my time spent in the studio... that I would have to pick and choose the challenges that were really meeting my needs and desires... and so this month I have chosen to do the Our Creative Corner challenge which is to use a FAVORITE photo and create a vintage tag, scrapbook page, etc with those photos... 

Well again.. I have limited supplies and the Photos were really not to be found at this time... so I took my camera and took some fall pictures of where I live... as where I live is where people come from all over the world to see .... so I chose the theme...

FALL IN THE MOUNTAINS... 

 

A lot of people think that Vermont is the only place in the USA that has beautiful fall colors on the trees... well Western North Carolina has tons of Leaf Peepers, too... 

So that is my theme... 

Leaves,

Fall

Mountains,

Birds.. ( my crows of course) 

Majestic feelings..  (ooops... misspelled it... ) 

and of course the colors of fall..

 

So this is how it turned out... 

 

 

This is my finished piece... 

I will give you all the details for those that want to follow...

I did have a lot of fun with this... to say the least...

 

 

Well I had a bunch of die cuts... and I wanted to use them...

 

so I glued them onto the canvas board and then gesso all over them... 

 

Then let the paints fly as they did...  color and more color was added and taken away...  but had a messy time of it... 

 

Then CAMERA time... I went out and took all kinds of pictures... here are a few of them...  I took over 100 of them...

 

One of  the many little sheds on our farm...  I happen to love it... it is rustic, and cute...  and still holds all the "junk' we seem to need around us... lawn mower... etc... 

 

The leaves...  and the LIGHT... coming thru the trees at this time...

Light changes as the seasons do... and we at times only think of the light from the time when we wake up... or hey when I get out of work... it is dark now... 

 

But the intensity of the light changes... and colors show up differently too..  light... so very important in my eyes... 

 

I go in the car and started to shoot away...

As seen from the top pasture on our farm.. this mountain is so very MAGESTIC in my mind... 

a new word...

Mag  =  Magical...

estic... =  Grand... 

 

Magically Grand

 

Should be spelled... Majestic

 

These mountains are in the mountains that run from Georgia, to Maine...  called the Appalachians'... 

Mount Mitchell.. is not too far away and that is the tallest point East of the Mississippi River... and it is a very powerful point too... 

 

Okay... a favorite little tiny home...  no one lives there anymore...

the people who use to live there... are buried across the street in a shallow grave... with a Thinker Statue as the marker stone... 

A small little family plot... very typical of the folks that use to live in this area... 

This house is slightly run down.. and most likely not livable... but the charm that is pouring out of it, is GRAND... 

When we leave our neighbor hood... the mountains change a little bit...  LOL.. .here they are... the same ones as in the first mountain picture above...  they are just GRAND... and I had to show it to you as an alone picture... as it is so BEAUTIFUL in all ways...

 

Another View...

From our home to the nearest 'town' which has only gas and some junk food ...  it is about 8 miles.. then you have to go another 8 miles to a small little town which has a few more stores etc...  we are way out in the boonies... and we LOVE IT... 

 

My Neighbor calls it Podunk...

I call it PARADISE... 

 

So I picked out a few pictures and started to play around...  I loved the background... and didn't want to cover it up too much... 

and I wanted the pictures to sort of pop up as they do around here...

I added some Flowers... and some leaves... more on both as I move along... 

 

The Butterflies were one of the Die cuts I had...

Butterflies in the Fall..

They are gone...

RUSTED... 

so I rusted some...  and they are enjoying my Fall in the Mountains... 

 

 

 

When I was coloring the background... I made a huge mess... and had to grab handfuls of babywipes to clean it up...

HUGE handfuls...

so I have to use things... and so I made some flowers with some of the baby wipes... 

 

 

 

We do have a lot of wild flowers always blooming from early spring until the first frost... and then there are always some that have MADE it thru the frost... 

 

 

 

Oaky... I have a very dear friend... who I met thru a challenge... and low and behold... we use to live in the same town...  she was a little bit younger than me... but hey... that is okay...

We use to live in NJ... and now we both live in NC...

Fun HUH???

Wow... what are the changes of that happening...

Anyway...  she sent me this wonderful card to say HI...

and one of the things that has happened in my studio area, is that I have had to condense my space... so I have no space to keep things... at all... I wanted to remember this note and her love that was sent with it to me... 

Sara... your leaves are here now... and will be living on my

FALL IN THE MOUNTAINS

forever. 

 

I loved these leaves and had to save them... I used the background paper also to make more leaves... and used it all..  Thank you so very much for helping to finish off this picture...

You are a very dear person to me... and want to always have your energy in my life.

 

 

 

CROWS... If you didn't see my piece on CROWS..  just flip back a few entries... and you can see my CROW CUBBIE...

I love crows and have a huge fascination for them in all ways... as I do all of nature... 

Since I truly live the natural life, I experience it every day of my life... 

 

This is a rubber stamp that I made so that I can show the actions of a crow... and this crow is flying on by... 

He is looking for the WINTER to arrive any time now... and that will also follow... 

 

This is a picture in a series ... and the first one was called the farm...

You can see that here... 

 

 

 

click on the above and it will take you to both of these pieces...

So I guess I will have to do a third and fourth picture so that my wall will be balanced... another thing I am working on... BALANCE in all things...

 

So that is my piece for the entry into the Our Creative Corner this month of November...

 

Hope also that you will come on the 22nd of  this month and also see what I have created as the TOP TALENT DESIGNER for the month... 

 

I love to have FUN ... and hope that you do too...

enjoy BLISSFULLY what you are doing with your LIFE and do it more and more each and everyday...

LIVE IN TOTAL BLISS... 

 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... I really appreciate the comments you all leave... and I love you and send you my best feelings for the day... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie