{"id":3677,"date":"2010-07-08T02:57:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2010-07-08T02:57:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T06:57:30","slug":"from-blogging-to-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=3677","title":{"rendered":"From Blogging to Beyond!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You never know where your blog will take you…being a part of this wonderful jewelry blogging world has not led me to some far away places! \u00a0 A part of me was fortunate enough to travel to England <\/strong>recently.\u00a0 Well, a little something handmade did all the traveling.<\/p>\n

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My travels all started back with Lori’s<\/a> first Bead Soup Blog party… as you may know she just finished up her 2nd successful party filled with gorgeous collaborative jewelry featured on dozens of blogs.\u00a0 Somehow or other I was super lucky that Joanne of Daisychain Jewellery<\/a> featured my Bead Soup piece along with others in a photo collage on her blog (you’ll have to visit her blog – she offers a wealth of information!).\u00a0\u00a0 Joanne is a frequent contributor to Beads & Beyond<\/a>, and one of the magazine’s wonderful editors contacted me after seeing my piece,\u00a0 asking if I was interesting in doing an article for their publication.\u00a0 You can imagine how excited I was at this opportunity….but the pressure to come up with something “good enough” then hit me.\u00a0\u00a0 It didn’t take long to find some inspiration though…and I found it with LeAnn’s<\/a> sweet porcelain bird charm.\u00a0 I knew I wanted to stamp a little inspiration on metal\u00a0 to go along with it… I then added a carved flower from a set that I had been holding on to since forever, and one of Erin’s<\/a> classic leaf charms.\u00a0 Then I just went right on working with wire – the fun part!!\u00a0 This wire work special issue is full<\/em> of great projects – I hope you can find a copy to flip through in a store near you.<\/p>\n

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This is the original "Fly Free" piece that I proposed for my article....a starting point.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I pared down this version by taking out the riveting, but still kept a subtle element of mixed metals.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another version...this one flew free, to the home of a friend!<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank you for visiting today, and for listening to a small tale of my jewelry travels.<\/p>\n

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