Summer Blog Hop 2013 hosted by Lisa Lodge

What an awesome privilege it has been to be a part of Lisa Lodge's Seasons Blog Hop.  Lisa sent us a combination of beads in a kit with a theme of one of the four seasons (there was room left for creative interpretation as well). We were instructed to use these beads in conjunction with other beads on our bead table (but to not purchase new beads).  Each participant would then create jewelry that reflected a season of the year, or a "season" in their life (first love, college days, etc). 

I chose to create my sets around Summer.

From this......

To these.....

I added strands of silk laced through chain, shells, metal spacers & charms, pearls, wire, metal findings and a handmade copper clasp.

Visit my Facebook page for close ups of each design.  https://www.facebook.com/lori.poppe1/media_set?set=a.719310674752253.1073741827.100000199826163&type=3

Please check out the other wonderful artists who also joined this grand Blog Hop:

Your Hostess: Lisa Lodge, Grateful Artist 

 

Kathy Zeigler Lindemer, Bay Moon Design

 

Cassi Paslick, Beads: Rolling Downhill

 

Stephanie Sanner Haussler, PixyBug Designs

 

Leah Mifflin Tees, My Beady Little Eyes

 

Karin Slaton, BackStory Beads

 

Audrey Belanger, Dreams of an Absolution

 

Lori Jean Poppe, Lorillijean Creative Corner

 

Karla Morgan, Texas Pepper Jams

 

Christine Stonefield, Sweet Girl Design

 

Eleanor Burian-Mohr, The Charmed Life

 

Alicia Marinache,  All the Pretty Things

 

Veralynne Malone, Designed by Vera

 

Kay Thomerson, Kayz Kreationz

 

Mary Govaars, MLH Jewelry Designs

 

Toltec Jewels, Toltec Jewels for Jewel School Friends

 

Lennis Carrier, Windbent

 

Erin Kenny, Beadifultherapy

 

Tanya Goodwin, A Work in Progress

 

Cilla Watkins, Tell Your Girlfriends

 

Renetha Williams Stanziano, Lamplight Crafts

 

Christie Searle Murrow, Charis Designs Jewelry

 

Sierra Barrett, Giraffe Can Has

 

Melissa Trudinger, Bead Recipes

 

Shirley Jones Moore, Beads and Bread

 

Dawn Horner, Northern Adornments

 

Charlene Bausinger Jacka, Clay Space

 

Tara Plote, The Newbie Beader's Blog

 

Candida Elkins Castleberry, Spun Sugar Beadworks

 

Miranda Ackerley, Daze and Days