Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Art Elements November Component of the Month -- Kristie Roeder Artisan Clay


In the November month of Thanksgiving, I had one extra gift to be grateful for this year -- the opportunity to participate in the Art Elements Component of the Month using a donut connector focal created by Kristie Roeder of Artisan Clay.  This is the beautiful piece I received:


The colorful, crackled depth of the glass against the chalkiness of the clay makes for quite an eye-catching focal. Having recently created several ornaments for the holidays using various art beads from my collection, I decided to do the same with this beauty.  I added some Czech glass, sparkly spacers and created three beaded beads using pink and blue pearls and crystals.  I love the way it turned out!


Until our tree goes up, I'm keeping this on our fireplace mantle ...





Thank you, Kristie, for sharing your ceramic art with me ... I am truly grateful for the opportunity!

Please check out what the other guest designers and Art Element team members created with Kristie's ceramic donuts. 

Lola♥

Guest Designers:
Sarajo Wentling
Lola Surwillo
Beti Horvath
Kate Kemp
Art Elements Team
Susan Kennedy
Lesley Watt
Claire Fabian
Jenny Davies-Reazor
Jen Cameron

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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Buried Treasure

Today I am participating in the Buried Treasure/use-your-stash challenge issued by the talented artists at Art Jewelry Elements. This challenge helped me reignite my creative voice – something that’s been lost for quite some time now – by not only encouraging me to unearth forgotten treasures, but by also guiding me back to the very beginning of my beady adventure.

My love affair with beads began the day I accompanied a friend to a local bead store and saw a wire crochet bracelet with beads on the cover of one of the magazines. Having crocheted more doilies than one would ever need in one’s lifetime, I was drawn to this new form of crochet. Blisters aside, I loved working with wire and beads! That is why I went back to my roots for this challenge, found a Lisa Peters Art ceramic button to use as my focal, and proceeded to create a wire crochet bracelet.




The year I scored the button from Lisa Peters at the Bead & Button show, I also scored a beautiful “create” pendant by Melanie Brooks. I decided to take Melanie’s pendant and make myself an inspiring talisman to hang in a noncreative space as a reminder to make time to play.

Thank you AJE for this wonderful challenge ... I hope to unearth even more forgotten treasures sometime very soon.

Thanks for stopping by and please be sure to check out the other unearthed treasures below!

Lola♥
AJE team:



Guests: 

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Saturday, June 06, 2015

A Time to Stitch Seven (ATTS7) Bead Embroidery


I am so excited to be participating in A Time to Stitch Seven (ATTS7) hosted by Therese & Christine! Bead embroidery has been something I've been wanting to try for a very long time, but I always felt so intimidated by it.  The bead embroidered pieces I admired were so amazing that I didn't know how to start.  So I researched ... A LOT!  I watched video after video until I could no longer avoid NOT starting. So, I began ...

I began to bezel the beautiful round cab I won that Therese created, along with two Marsha Neal ceramic components that I found at my local bead store.




I LOVE the way these three individual pieces turned out and I look forward to finishing them, maybe making a few more components, and then putting them all together to create a bracelet for myself.




Thank you so much for stopping by my blog.  Thank you Therese and Christine for pushing us outside of our creative comfort zones and expanding our technique tool boxes with your challenges!

Happy Hopping Everyone!

Lola♥

1.     Therese (Host) 
2.     Christine  (Host)
3.     Amy
4.     Lola
5.     Lori F
6.     Kim
7.     Becky Pancake
8.     Karin G.
9.     Debbie (Kepi)
10.   LizE
11.   Maryanne
12.   Paula
13.   Wendy
14.   Janet
15.   Jasvanti
16.   Ginger
17.   Alicia
18.   Bobbie
19.   Shirley
20.   Sarah
21.   Cynthia  
22.   Lizzie
23.   Samantha
24.   Sally
25.   Niki
26.   Karen W.

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Saturday, April 19, 2014

7th Do Over Challenge


Although this is the 7th Do Over Challenge, this is my first time participating.  

Here is the necklace that Jeannie sent me to "do over."


Here is my new piece.


I took a beaded piece I made for another challenge, ran wire through the center of it and wire wrapped some pearls to the ends.  I then attached the lovely wire-wrapped pearls Jeannie created (there was no way I could take apart that perfect pearl chain!) and created a lovely bracelet that feels really nice on my wrist.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and thank you Jeannie for creating such a fun challenge! Please check out how the rest of the participants reworked their pieces from Jeannie. I won't have time today or tomorrow, but I will hopping like the Easter Bunny on Monday. ;-)

  Lola♥


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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Echo Creative Club -- December 2013 Reveal




♫ "I'm so glad we had this time together,
Just to have a laugh, or sing a song.
Seems we just get started and before you know it,
Comes the time we have to say, 'So long.'" ♫

 Thank you Jeannie for letting me be a part of your Echo Creative Club these past two years.  I am grateful for your generosity and the opportunity to create with your beautiful art beads.  I hope you like this last piece.  It's called Sedona's Magic Carpet.







December Blog Hop

 Dagi --  http://www.kokopellidesign,blogspot.com
Jeannie K Dukic -- http://site,jkdjewelry.com/blog
Lola Surwillo -- http://www.beadlolabead.blogspot.com
Maureen Connolly -- http://mrsbeadsley.blogspot.com

 Echo Creative Club Jewelry By Jeannie http://www.jkdjewelry.com/blog
Echo Creative Club http://site.jkdjewelry.com/blog/echo-creative-club/
Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/1908988@N22/
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