Friday, July 27, 2012

WELCOME TO THE BEAD SOUP BLOG HOP/GIVEAWAY

Welcome to the 6th Bead Soup Blog Hop Hosted by the wonderful Lori Anderson of Pretty Things.  Lori works really hard to organize these huge events for us and it's greatly appreciated!

This is my third Bead Soup participation and I have had great partners each and every time.  This time my partner is Sharon Driscoll of Right Turn Artwerks. Sharon is a lampwork and ceramic artist like me but our styles are so very different.  When I saw Sharon's beads I told her to send me color, and boy did she oblige.  Here's what she sent me.



She really spoiled me!

The first thing I did was pull out the red Parawire and the Coiling Gizmo and made a long coil.  The focal has a yellow head pin that goes through the body of the lampwork beads.  It was long enough to put the coil through the head pin and wrap it creating a bail.  I mixed the seed beads Sharon sent me on the right side of the necklace and used a crimp bead to make the two long links.  I used another piece of the red coil for color and attached the toggle Sharon sent me.  Above that is one of Sharon's ceramic bead hearts and a little red spacer bead dangle.



To visit the rest of the blogs please go to Bead Soup Participants

Now for the giveaway!  All you have to do is leave a comment below and you are automatically entered.  I will be giving away one of my new lampwork flower head pin sets.  I will pick one winner through random.org on Wednesday Evening, August 1st.  Please make sure I can contact you if you win.


GOOD LUCK!

Enjoy your day,

Raida




88 comments:

  1. Love the colorful beads & what you did with them! And I'd be thrilled to win one of your lampwork flower headpin sets - gorgeous!

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  2. Raida, you are right, those beautiful lampwork beads are so very different from your style. But you totally showed how talented a designer you are! That is a beautiful necklace!! And I would be thrilled to win one of your head pin sets.

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  3. It's a beautiful piece that's going to be so fun to wear.

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  4. Man O Man those colours are awesome, these are the kinds of pieces that make this much fabulousness of colour explosion look totally wearable & fresh

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  5. That is one cheery necklace! All the colours made me smile, and I love how you incorporated different techniques in just one piece. Great job with your bead soup!

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  6. Love your design, you have showcased every colorful bead. What a great necklace this would be to wear, I can just hear the compliments.

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  7. That is a "prozac" moment right there.NO drugs needed.Delightful popping colours and awesome style.Love and hugs Tanya

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  8. Love your necklace and the color palette! Super cool! Enjoy the hop!

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  9. You did a wonderful job! Love her lampwork beads - they are so full of wonderful colors - and your design suits them perfectly! I love your beads too - did you see the beautiful earrings that Lori Anderson made with your headpins that I gave her? Love them!

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  10. Oh fantastic! How brilliant!
    Great work!
    jean yates!

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  11. Gorgous work ! So many colors, and yet they they don't overpower each other.

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  12. I love the bright and fun colours and the design is full of whimsy. How lucky that there is a giveaway too, also beautiful. thanks for the chance

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  13. Love the colorful beads & how you used them in your necklace! I'm loving your lampwork flower headpin sets & the earrings you created with them are gorgeous!! alicia _ coats (at) hot mail (dot) com

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  14. I love your necklace. I have a beautiful gorgeous focal bead by Sharon and feel inspired by what you have created. Her work is so detailed, colorful and a cut above. You really did her work justice. Great job!

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  15. Oh, I almost forgot about the giveaway. I would be thrilled to be entered. Thank you so much for the opportunity.

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  16. Oh Raida!! She indeed sent you color and I LOVE IT!! While you did a great job using those brights with just the black and white seed beads, the way you integrated everything together and used the red parawire was inspired!
    As well, thanks so much for the chance at the giveaway for your amazing flower headpins! Have fun hopping!! :)

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  17. What a fun piece. Love the colors and what you did with them!

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  18. what amazing things you had in your bead soup! you did a wonderful job! its is so colorful and playful looking!

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  19. I love your necklace, it is so colorful!! I like the black and white in there it balances it all out!

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  20. A very playful design with a colour scheme that makes you smile.

    I just love your new floral headpins! (And this particular set looks like a perfect match for my Oliver Twist One Offs, which makes all sorts of ideas for combining that fibre with those flowers spin in my head now.)

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  21. Love the bright colors...your necklace is so fun! Sharon's beads are always so full of color and you did them proud with your fabulous design.

    Thanks for a nice giveaway!!

    Smiles, Pam

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  22. WOW! Raida I'd of never thought of the parawire but it is so appropriate to this piece. Thank you for taking my colorful challenge beads and making them look magnificent.

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  23. I just love all those fun colors, and you did a great job putting them together. Thanks for having the giveaway, too-those headpins are gorgeous!!

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  24. You may have been working outside of your typical color palette, but you nailed it. I love how you pulled it all together with a simple pattern in the black and white beads. This piece is so much fun.

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  25. What a fun,colorful,whimsical piece! I love how you attached the focal with the coiled wire bail.

    Thanks for the chance to win your lovely flower headpins!

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  26. What an amazing necklace!!
    I absolutely love it :)
    I would also love to win those beautiful headpins of yours! Lovely :)

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  27. Ooh, I love those beads. You show them beautifully, not distracting from their bold design. Cool!

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  28. I live the colors that were used, everything looks great! Thanks for the chance to win the lovely flower headpins I can think of many things to do with them

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  29. It isnt easy to work with all rainbow of colours but you managed.Regards!

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  30. I love the fun colorful necklace! AND the flower headpins are soooo pretty..Hope I win! Fingers & toes are crossed!

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  31. Your necklace is beautiful!! I love the focal bead....it really makes this piece a fun and whimsical wonder!!

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  32. Isn't it great to have a lamp work partner?! I have for 2 years running! Sharon's beads are festive - and your necklace is high spirited and fun. Lovely work. And a give away - ok! Thanks!

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  33. I love your necklace, makes me smile!!

    Joanna-Gloria, yana_ven@yahoo.gr

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  34. What a beautiful piece, makes you happy to wear!!

    DESPINA
    deb_oro@yahoo.gr

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  35. you did a great job with such a bright and cheerful soup! I think I'd have been over whelmed >.<

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  36. Your design makes me happy, happy! Big smile! Aren't you glad you challenged yourself? I am.

    Lynda
    lyndacarson@cox.net

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  37. LOVE the vibrant colors- what you did with them, just makes the colors sing! Your flower head pins are gorgeous! Loved the soup you sent as well-beautiful, beautiful. Christie

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  38. wow your soup mix was so vibrant and fun..you made a wonderful piece.

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  39. Pick me, pick me.....oh, sorry. I got carried away :) I love the colors in your necklace. One thing I like about this blog hopping is seeing ideas and thinking about jewelry in a different way.

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  40. wowsa, what a fun, whimsical, colorful, joyous piece! LOVE it!

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  41. Wow, you did get spoiled! I love what you did - it's so playful. It reminds me of a level in Super Mario Galaxy, haha. I'm guessing you're not familiar with that videogame, but I mean that as the highest compliment :) SO CUTE!

    Also, I would not mind winning your headpins :D

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  42. I love all the details you put into your very vibrant and happy colored necklace!

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  43. I love all the color in those beads. You really made all the color stand out. It looks like such a fun necklace. Great piece.

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  44. Such bright and lovely beads, put together beautifully! Great job!

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  45. What a super cool and happy necklace! It would brighten the cloudiest day.

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  46. OMG that color is amazing! I love beads like that (and oh man, I'm sorry, I didn't realize I'd paired two like people together!). I think you did a smashing job (and I'm still so honored about the bracelet we collaborated on so many years ago!)

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  47. Ohohoh, COLOR you asked for and COLOR you got. XD Love your creation, would love to see at some time how it looks like when worn.

    I'd love to enter the giveaway too: wollberg.sandra(at)googlemail.com

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  48. Beautiful piece! I love the lampwork..so unique. But they do look hard to work with. You did a incredible job!

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  49. Beautiful beads...love the vibrancy!

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  50. Wow-the beads Sharon sent you are amazing; you did them beautiful justice with your design. It is so funky and fun-love it. How cool that you both are glass/ceramic artists!

    I would love to win one of your gorgeous headpins-count me in please!

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  51. I too love color and Wow you did a beautiful job! Interesting that you paired large seed beads on one side but black and white go with anything and the result was smashing. The head pins are divine!

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  52. What fun beads she sent you and what a happy necklace you made of them! I love that heart!

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  53. All that color would have totally stumped me. I am kinda matchy-matchy kind of girl so I am always in awe of folks that can use multiple colors and make it work. That necklace is a real stunner.

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  54. Lovely works with all that color!

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  55. Hi! I love what you did with those lampwork glass beads! The necklace turned out wonderfully ;)

    -Also thanks for including me in your contest-giveaway the pins are stunning...

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  56. What awesome beads to work with. I must adore how the necklace turned out. It is beautiful.

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  57. Hi Raida
    your necklace is exciting, beautiful and sooooo colorful. Wow :-)

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  58. Now that's a cheerful, fun colour palette. You did an amazing job with your bead soup!

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  59. Beautiful necklace! Loved the bead soup you were sent! Love your headpins too!

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  60. The beads you had to work with were beautiful! And you did an awesome juob with the necklace. The flower headpins are lovely!

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  61. I just bought some of your goorgeous headpins! You do such beautiful work and your soup creation is so cool!

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  62. This just screams "fun"! Fun to wear and obviously fun to make!

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  63. I've seen a lot of lampwork headpins lately, but those are show-stoppers! And I love what you did with the soup--what a fun necklace! :)

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  64. Wonderful necklace! Really fun and colorful!

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  65. Hi Raida,
    Your necklace is fun, playful, and colorful, it is so pretty I love it. I also love the flower headpins they are gorgeous.
    Therese

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  66. I love how well the black and set off the colorful beads. Looks awesome!!

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  67. What a great soup! And your designs are wonderful!

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  68. I am inspired! Color and more color in my next project!

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  69. What a great necklace! You are so talented. Love these new headpins.

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  70. It's an amazing color party to wear!! LOVE your mix of fun....

    Julie

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  71. Beautiful pieces and love your new head pins

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  72. Love the colors, my kind of happy!

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  73. love the soup!!! and a bonus of a give away, what a great combo. Somehow I missed you while hopping but actually was on your etsy shop & it lead me to here :)

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  74. Fantastic colourful necklace, I love it! (melissa_trudinger at yahoo dot com)

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  75. I stumbled upon your etsy store and then followed you over here. Your work is so beautiful! Your soup is great too. I'm about to hop over to your partner's blog to check out her stuff. :)

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  76. I love the beads you were sent.Great work and congrats to your winner!

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  77. Beautiful creation...love those lampwork beads!! Nice job on your bead soup!

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  78. Yummy soup... & your design is beatiful..! :)

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  79. Delicious.You have a very good eye. Wish I could have been in on the drawing as I really really like your headpins but I was in California attending a wedding & I didn't get to hop until now.

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  80. too late for the giveaway :(
    only today I have time to finish visiting all of you, I'm a partecipant from Italy...I love your necklace, so funny and colorful, and I love your beads and creations, I favorited on Etsy :)
    bye, have a good day

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  81. You made such beautiful Too bad I missed your give away but certainly will hop in your etsy store. The blog hop was fun. I was in the second session. Nice knowing you Raida. Dita

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  82. Wow, beautiful soup, so hard to miss with that! Your creations are so beautiful! Love the necklace!

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  83. wonderful creation! you did a great job with your soup!
    greets
    jacqueline

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