Mhoti Studio

It's here;  it's  BEAD SOUP showtime. This is going to be one GIGANTIC PARTY  Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been up to lately.  Lori Anderson , our fearless leader (there are over 500 of us) assigned us partners in March; we then sent our bead soup mixes to each other and once received, we then spent the interim weeks planning, designing, creating and assembling.  The requirement was to use the focal bead, the clasp , and as many beads as we desired; adding if necessary supplies and beads from our stash (and we all have one), to create a piece of jewellery or art or whatever took our fancy.  (or wherever our muse led us). If this is your first time to my blog , WELCOME!   To save you from having to search through past posts here is a photo of what my partner   Heather d'Entremont sent me and then  photos of the finished piece.  Lots of polymer clay goodies; lava rock beads in three sizes; some crystals; t...

now that I've finished my earrings for the earrings everyday we're all ears challenge (see previous post) this is what i have to work on next. This is my bead soup mix from my partner Heather in Nova Scotia . so this is now sitting on my work table egging me on. this is the tidiest it will ever be .   I have two weeks to git 'er done.    show-time is May 3rd. and it's coming up FAST. Lots of loverly polymer clay goodies

I got my soup from Heather yesterday. It's full of polymer clay goodies that she made by hand , some really cool mirror image beads (think Rorschach images) in wonderful sherbet colours; lava beads -love the texture of them; yellow-goldy crystals ; and gorgeous hand made polymer pendan t with black accents , some wonderful shell strands ; purple polymer sea urchins , and two clay- filled clasps ( with jump rings as well) in two different metals so I have a choice.; a black glass heart and two glass disc beads ; a pretty pair of earrings  (should I or should I NOT take them apart?); and some various sized giraffe print polymer beads. I am so pumped and can't wait to start sketching ideas. thanks Heather, what a wonderful treasure chest of beads , and for the vintage  tin container, with a picture of an RCMP mountie on his horse. ya gotta love a man in uniform . time to play.

we finally get to reveal our finished projects to the world, well at least to the rest of the Bead soup Group. Nikki sent me some awesome beads and I had this preliminary idea of what I would make.(see photo below) Ha , the best laid plans don't always work out the way we thought they would. I fiddled and diddled and fiddled some more.  BUT I have finished my pieces and I am quite pleased with myself (and them) Here is a reminder of what I received A gorgeous ceramic leaf focal, ceramic/raku  rounds, creamy fossil stone,  large smokey quartz, faceted amethyst,  and a hammered copper toggle clasp. My original idea was to use the layout you see here (above), I thought it made a lovely choker style necklace. That didn't work out so well. Here are the finished results. This first piece used the focal leaf, the fossil stones, ceramic beads and two of the smokey quartz, the copper toggle clasp from Nikki, plus from some brown bumpy glass beads, purple mini c...