Colors of Spring Blog Hop Reveal

I was thrilled when I saw this post because I am a big fan of Sally Russick's enameled beads. I chose the Starfish palette and was sent (forgot to take before pics) a tan lentil, green rounds and some light colored tube beads. If you saw my post from yesterday I used some of Sally's beads in the necklace I made for Finally Friday. Here is the necklace I made for today's hop. I started by wire wrapping the front side of the lentil, then I added a bead from Gaea and a branch disc from Heather Powers. Then I layered a pendant from Marsha Neal with a pendant from Cynthia Thornton. Then I wire wrapped a lampwork bead from 2BeadSisters and some more of Sally's enameled beads. I finished the necklace off with silk from Marsha Neal and a Vintaj Natural Brass hook clasp. Thank so much for checking out my necklace and I hope you will hop along with the other participants: List of paticipants: Host: Sally Russick Margarita Theresa Frank Kim Bender Cabaret JLynn Jewels Christine Altmiller Sweet Lilac Cherrie Fick Jenny Vidberg Driftwood Sabine Dittrich Hope Smitherman Solar Power Nicole Rennell Erin Fickert-Rowland  Bell Flower Patti Vanderbloemen Kristi Bowman Starfish Shannon Chomanczuk <--YOU ARE HERE Elisabeth Auld Cockatoo Alice Peterson Donna Bradley Sodalite Blue Kristi Harrison Cilla Watkins Tangerine Tango Lesley Watt Maryanne Gross Susan Kennedy Courtney White Breul ~Shannon

What I am cooking up

This has been a crazy week.
I know a cold is my bodies way of telling me to slow down but I am pretty slow all the time anyway. If I slow down anymore I am going to be moving backwards. Lol
But seriously, I didn't think I was doing too much till I sat to write this post.
Here are some things I am working on:

Bead Soup due March 3rd.
I got my beads from my partner Rochelle Brisson of Sea Chelles Design, visit her blog here A Creative Chelle. Out of my comfort zone for sure but that's the fun part of these hops!

The Challenge of Music due Feb 29th. I have a song picked but haven't started working on my piece yet. All I am gonna tell you is that I love Adele ;-)

Blog Hop February 29th

Artisan Clay due February 25th:

Got my beads at the end of last week and have been too sick to work with them yet.

Echo Creative Club due Feb 25th:

Got my beads, made an awesome necklace, took pictures, working on the blog post this afternoon :-)

Andrew Thornton's February Challenge also due Feb 25th:

Necklace finished, photographed and I am working on some other pieces because this kit was huge.

The colors of spring blog hop due March 31st. Got my beads, have been sketching what I want to make but haven't had a chance to make anything yet.

And finally I am a member of the Allegory Design Team due Feb 28th.
My pieces are made and photographed, now all I need to do is write up the instructions and get them to Andrew :-)




Whew! I can now see why I got sick. I love all these challenges and they push me creatively but I think I may have over done it for February. I have never been pushed so far creatively though and that is fueling my fire. All of the pieces I have been sent are out of my comfort zone and that is awesome. I hope you will keep following me to see what I have made for each of these challenges.

~Shannon