Lorelei's Fusion Beads Blog Hop

 Here is what I made for the Fusion Beads Blog Hop hosted by Lorelei Eurto!  She picked out several items from the Fusion Beads website and a bunch of designers are making things with those items... Today's blog hop shows all of those wonderful things!

 I chose this challenge because I really liked the colors and there were some things I had never worked with before.  First, the vintage lucite leaves were new to me.  The official blog hop color was out of stock, so I chose a similar color.  I really liked them... so lightweight and such pretty colors and shimmer!  I had also never worked with the teardrop seed bead shape.  I really like the way they string together and form an irregular, organic shape.  I doubled up my strands to exaggerate this effect even more.

Another material I haven't worked with in a while is real leather.  This is really fine quality Greek round leather in an olive green color.  I really like how stiff the leather is to begin with...it held its form when I made the knot and was easy to work with.  I think it will soften up with wear, which will be nice, but I liked the structure it provided in its fresh from the package state. The ingredients also called for some great glass beads which I love and the Green Girl owl toggle (always a favorite).  I added a Green Girl woodland bead from my collection and an amber crackle heart and two round links of my own making. Visit these blogs to see what other designers did with these ingredients:  http://lorelei1141.blogspot.com/
http://erinsiegeljewelry.blogspot.com/
http://beadingbymalindekoning.blogspot.com/
http://beadhappytoday.blogspot.com/
http://thebeaddreamer.com/blog
http://dreamsomedesigns.blogspot.com/
http://fryestyle.blogspot.com/
http://www.madmaggiedesigns.blogspot.com/
http://reginaswritings.blogspot.com/
http://www.mylifeunderthebus.typepad.com/
http://jennibead.blogspot.com/
http://maryhardingjewelrybeadblog.blogspot.com/
http://silverrosedesigns.blogspot.com/
http://lindalandig.wordpress.com/
http://fireflymyst.blogspot.com/
http://www.awishandacloud.blogspot.com/
http://spiritrattles.blogspot.com/
http://formysweetdaughter.blogspot.com/
http://songbeads.blogspot.com/
http://beautifullybrokenme.blogspot.com
http://threeredbeads.blogspot.com/
http://christinec3.blogspot.com/


Melanie is an artist, blogger, writer, and ceramic beadmaker at Earthenwood Studio. Her beads and components can be found at her Etsy shop and her jewelry can be found in her Etsy Galleria. To comment on this post, visit the original post at the Earthenwood Studio Chronicles Blog.