PDa With Shelley Graham Turner!!

PDa With Shelley Graham Turner!!

What am I rambling about NOW?? I’m talking about a great idea that Shelley Graham Turner of Tori Sophia had, to help fill the downtime between other Blog Hops and Parties! Having seen the awesome hand made charms, focals and jewelry that Shelley has created, I knew I was in for a treat!

Shelley sent this nifty Bead Soup to play with, and she has an identical soup. The fun, we each create something with the same exact soup, and see what our Creative Muses come up with! It’s been really interesting so far reading Shelley’s blog and seeing the first two PDa’s she has already hosted, and seeing what strikingly different pieces are created using the same exact main components. I can’t wait to see what Shelley has made and hope I have done her fantastic beads justice with my creations!

Grinds My Gears.. I loved the gears Shelley incorporated into this sweet focal beads, and felt they needed to be joined in such a way that suggests they work together to serve a function. I created my pendant using the three gears and two little glass beads Shelley included in the mix. The chain is made with more beads from the Soup, and a few wavy copper disks I had on hand. I used a figure eight/infinity on either end of the bead clusters to add a little length and more pattern, repeating the motion gears usually take-around and around! The rest of the chain is made up of jump rings and S connectors, ending in a hand made crook clasp.

I wanted to use the rest of the soup that Shelley sent, but didn’t feel the necklace needed them. So I made a pair of earrings!

UnaLeaf.. Ever since I saw those little glass leaves, I knew I wanted to wrap them briolette style at the end of a long wire! I used the little unakite, shell and glass beads from Shelley, creating the pins they all hang on, put them on a jump ring and attached them to ear wires I made. I had a heck of a time photographing them (and the necklace, for some reason-I think my poor Nikon D40 may have been dropped one too many times) and feel the pictures do NOT do justice to either the necklace or the earrings! The earrings are ADORABLE! They have a nice movement to them, yet hang ever so nicely, the beads moving politely out of the way of each other while simultaneously highlighting themselves. I left the copper bare in both because I felt the color-the natural *pinkness* found copper- complimented and coordinated perfectly with the entire bead set.
I will take new pics over the weekend with the Muscle’s D7000 and change these pics-he takes that thing everywhere, or I’d have used it!!

This was a fun Hop! Thank you for letting me participate, Shelley! I look forward to joining you in many future endeavors!  =^..^=

Check out what Shelley made, here:

 

 

10 Responses

  1. Heather, how awesome! I love what you did with Shelley’s beads.I totally see and got what you did.I love the motion of the piece andthe earrings are awesome too! Now I wanna have a plydate!

    • Thank you! If you follow the PDa link on my right hand side bar, it should take you to Shelley’s blog where she originally posted the idea. I believe you can still enter-I think you just leave a comment there. Shelley is so fun and creative!! 🙂

  2. What a cool design you created with Shelley’s beads. I love the gears, and the idea of presenting them as ‘working’. I agree, the leaves look great dangling like that. Can’t wait for my play date with her!

  3. Wire wrapping, spirals and loops, OH MY! You did my beads MORE than justice! You did a fabulous job girl!!

    I love that you used copper. Your wire wrapping, loops and spiral SKILLS are really good, totally jealous of that! You used ALL the pieces I sent you – EXTRA CREDIT!

    The necklace design is very cool, and the earrings! Well I love the way they trickle down in a earthy but bling-a-ful way!

    I enjoyed our playdate! Let’s do it again after I make some ceramic pieces, K? xxoOh! ~Shelley

    • Yay! Extra credit!! Thank you for the great compliments, Shelley. You are SO good for my esteem! 😉
      I look forward to our next Play Date. <3