Good Evening Everyone! It is now time to stir up the ingredients for my Bead Soup, get my imagination in high gear, and create sometime beautiful with my soup I received from my wonderful partner
Judy Robinson!
This is Judy's first time with the Blog Hop and my third time and I wish I could stop drooling over what she sent me.
First, I opened the box and it was filled with a beautiful soft tie-dyed purple bag. (One of my favorite colors!) And in the bottom was a letter from Judy. She stitched up the" beadle bag" for me from her flute bag materials. Judy designs, creates and embellishes
Native American flutes. And by creates I mean she turns the wood herself to make the flute. I am in awe of her talent and skill!
Back to the soup ingredients-- I opened the bag and found the following ingredients:
Natural color mix of #8 seed beads, 4 cathedral beads, 2 brown stone beads, 4 green-gold speckled glass beads, #11 golden grain seed beads, #11 jade green delicas, a copper toggle, and two gorgeous wood cabochons. (more about them in a minute)
The cabochons are extra special to me because Judy turned them herself! The larger one is made from her favorite wood, sycamore. This piece is from a Florida sycamore that was six years old which had to be taken down. The cab is so awesome you can count the rings.
The second cab is a little smaller and from a spalted maple.Judy explained that spalting in wood comes from fungi when it attacks the wood. (Please check out her blog for more pictures of items she has turned.)
I think both cabs are fantastic and I can't wait to use them.Of course, you will have to wait until the second revel to see what I have created! Judy and I are in the second revel--- April 6th so please come back!
Thank you, Judy for the wonderful soup ingredients.
