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Bead Soup

My bead soup arrived from my partner, Krista Quantrill! It only took a week to go from Canada to Pittsburgh, and mine only took a week to get to her.  We mailed them on the same day, and they both arrived on the same day - that's too funny!

Here's what she sent me.  The focal is a really cool ceramic greek focal, there's wood, swarovski pearls, copper rice beads, two very cool patinated copper beads, the patinated clasp and really cool czech blue-green melons.  I love the soup!  Can't wait to get started!

We both happened to send our soup in pink packaging, really funny coincidence again!

This is the teaser shot I published a few days ago:

And here's what I sent to Krista:

Another funny coincidence, we both sent the same color scheme!  I'm looking forward to seeing what we both make out of our soup!

Comments

Niky Sayers said…
Both really lovely looking soups love the colours
Kaybree said…
This is going to be fun! I have so many ideas. I'm glad we're in the last reveal - I will have lots of time to play with my pretty soup!
I love what you sent and received-both are fantastic soups! Great color palettes too. I look forward to seeing what you create.
CraftyHope said…
That's really funny that you sent the same colors. Of course, I don't mind at all. That shade of blue is divine and I know you will work wonders with it.

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