It's time for another challenge, and this month Lesley picked tidepools as the theme for May! I was all over it! I've been spending time at the ocean practically my whole life! My grandparents moved to Florida when I was about 6 and purchased a motel in Clearwater! My brother and I spent our Augusts there for years. My parents had condos in Hilton Head until recently - my daughter's first visit to Hilton Head was when she was 6 weeks old!
The first thing I made for the challenge was this cute little shimmery fish (personally, I think his shape might be better as a narwahl, so I think I'll try that soon!). When my son was 3 years old, we were playing on the beach when he came over with a shimmery little fish he caught from a tidepool. My daughter and I asked him, HOW DID YOU DO THAT??? because they are very hard to catch. He put it back in the tidepool and caught it again and said, Like this! with a big smile on his face! Priceless!
I made some initial cabochons in a swirly tidepool type design, with short pieces of pretty multicolor glass I had left from glass that is now discontinued. Then I tried one with a little murrini in the center.
I also made some shimmery textured disc beads with the tidepool theme in mind - these are so pretty in person, the shimmery glass is a little hard to see in photos.
Then I made these ammonite chicklet beads and had so much fun with them, I kind of got obsessed. These are great because of their orientation - you can use them for earrings better because of the hole orientation, and they work well in bracelets and necklaces as well! Here's a little collage of some of them - I even made some using recycled bottle glass!
Then I got to thinking more and more about tidepool cabochons and came up with these ones. These have been very popular! I kept one for myself, but haven't had the time to do anything with it yet.
I also made this large focal bead, keeping for myself, to see how it would look in the same style. It worked, but I have no idea what I'll ever make with it!
Finally, remember this project from a prior AE challenge? It was made with a cabochon by Lesley.
I decided to do something similar with a starfish cabochon by Diana Ptaszynski and finished it just in time!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you visit everyone else to see what they made with this great theme - thanks Lesley for a lot of inspiration!
The first thing I made for the challenge was this cute little shimmery fish (personally, I think his shape might be better as a narwahl, so I think I'll try that soon!). When my son was 3 years old, we were playing on the beach when he came over with a shimmery little fish he caught from a tidepool. My daughter and I asked him, HOW DID YOU DO THAT??? because they are very hard to catch. He put it back in the tidepool and caught it again and said, Like this! with a big smile on his face! Priceless!
Finally, remember this project from a prior AE challenge? It was made with a cabochon by Lesley.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you visit everyone else to see what they made with this great theme - thanks Lesley for a lot of inspiration!
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Your necklace you created is also stunning!
Wonderful work in all of them ... and I do love the narwhal idea, by the way.
Alysen