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Bead Soup Blog Party!!!!

It's time again for the Bead Soup Blog Party, hosted by Lori Anderson.  I don't really know how she does it, she has health issues but keeps plugging away.  Thanks to Lori and to her husband and her helpers who made this work yet again this year!

My partner was Rochelle Brisson from Sea Chelles Design on etsy, and her blog is A Creative Chelle.  I posted earlier about what she sent me for my soup:

Usually I stress about what beads or components I'm going to add to the soup to make bunches of things, and I decided I don't really like that stress.  I wanted to stress a different way - use only what she sent me, other than whatever I was going to use to string.  I did a pretty good job, I think. I was inspired by a necklace I saw in a magazine some time ago, an assymetrical necklace that used the toggle clasp in the front for the focal.

 The pretty ceramic focal hangs off the round part of the toggle clasp, in the front of the necklace.
 I used a lot of the beads to make …