September ABS Monthly Challenge

September ABS Monthly Challenge, a photo by Klassy Joolz on Flickr.

My September 2013 ABS Entry.

The beautiful Artisan Beads are from Mandrel 2 https://www.etsy.com/shop/mandrel2  (green shimmery leaves, clasp beads, gold round beads) and Elizabeth Creations https://www.etsy.com/shop/sharlee22 (pretty fall colored Artisan Bumpy Beads).  I added Sterling Silver Accents, Swarovski Crystals in copper, Freshwater Pearls in a soft green and the pendant is a Silver Ox Stamping.

 

 The Hills Tribe Sterling Silver Leave Bead Caps were just a perfect touch as well as the other Sterling Silver Bead Caps that I thought looked like the grapes.  The Gold  Plated Pewter Bead Flower Wheel Beads seems so similar to the ornamentation on her bust area.  My Mucha inspiration was the Silver Pendant.  I have had this stamping for the longest time and finally it is where it should be in this design.

 

 

 

I loved the colors in this painting.  Colors changing from summer to fall - shades of green, orange and yellow and the browns and tans with just a little punch of red.

 

 

Autumn from "The Seasons Series" 1896

Alphonse Mucha Oil

 

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AUGUST ABS Monthly Challenge

August ABS Monthly Challenge, a photo by Klassy Joolz on Flickr.

My entry for the AUGUST ABS MONTHLY CHALLENGE.

 

Tres Personajes, (Three People) 1970

Rufino Tamayo

Oil on Canvas 51" × 38"

(Please note this art is copyrighted and is to be used only as inspiration.)

I love the story behind this painting.  "Tres Personajes'' had been stolen in 1987 and was missing for almost 20 years. The painting's owners, a Houston couple, had purchased the painting at the Sotheby auction house in 1977 for $50,000. It later went missing from a storage facility in Texas.    Elizabeth Gibson, a resident of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, went out for a cup of coffee on a Saturday morning in 2003. She spotted a large painting poking out from among the garbage bags left on the sidewalk on West 72nd Street.  
She lugged the 4-foot-wide painting back to her apartment and hung it on the living room wall.

Thus began a lengthy and at times anguished journey to discover the Tamayo's history. Gibson said she contacted lawyers, art dealers and friends in an effort to determine whether the painting was anything special. Once she learned that Tamayo was among the most important and valuable Mexican artists -- and that her colorful painting with three abstract figures had illustrated the cover of a 1974 Tamayo monograph by journalist Emily Genauer -- she hid the painting in her closet, creating a false wall using plywood and a shower curtain.

In 2005, Gibson watched a PBS television program about missing artworks, part of the ``Antiques Roadshow'' series, that featured the Tamayo.  Sotheby's expert August Uribe, who hosted the segment, explained that ``Tres Personajes'' had been stolen and was missing.

On Nov. 20, 2007 the work's first public viewing since Elizabeth Gibson spied it in a mound of garbage on a Manhattan sidewalk.  It sold for over a Million Dollars.

 

 

 

Beautiful Artisan Lampwork Beads by https://www.etsy.com/shop/chestnutridgedesigns wire wrapped with non-tarnish silver plated wire and accented with Sterling Silver.

 

 

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Bead Hoarders Blog Hop

 

 

Big thanks to Lori and this wonderful Bead Hoarders Blog Hop.  I now know for sure that I am a Hoarder/Collector/Lover of Beautiful Beads even more than I realized!  I'm a little afraid of my self.  Some of these beads, to follow,  I have had since I first started designing in 2007.  When will I ever find the time to use them?  I always want more...more is better...right!
 

 http://www.prettythingsblog.com/

 

Owl Lampwork Bead by Denise Annette on Etsy
Round Lampwork beads by Mandrel on Etsy

 

Lampwork beads by Mandrel of Etsy...I love her lampwork beads.  If you follow me you know that I love lampwork beads and I do use her designs a lot.  My stash of her beads is over the top!

 

Here's what I'm talking about...beads that I have had for a long time...just waiting on me to become worthy of designing something with them.  Will it ever happen?

 

 

Lampwork Beads by Glitzy Glass, Norma Blick, and Catalina Glass

Vintage Bunny Button from England and Bunny Clasp by Eden Art Glass...Oh I love Bunnies, too.

 

Here's more stash...Ceramics.

 

 

 

Owl - Spirited Earth, Bunny- Kylie Parry, Flower and Bird - Distlefunk2, Bee- Sling Mud, Flower - Heather Powers, and Owl -

 Suzie's Beads

 

Who couldn't love these?

 

 

 

 

Here' s more stash...OOOOOH...so much "Beady Goodness"! 

 

 

 

 

 

So now you all know my PASSION for COLLECTING (hoarding) beads and I now know I'm not alone in this search to find more beauties.  Thank you to all the talented Bead Designers that I purchase from...love you all!

 

 

Thank you so much Lori for organizing yet another wonderful adventure!

 

 

http://www.prettythingsblog.com/2013/06/bead-hoarders-blog-hop-sign-ups-are-open.html

 

Please stop by the other participates:

 

1.  Lori Anderson, Pretty Things

2. Nancy Dale, NEDBeads
3. Roxanne Mendoza, Roxi Designs
4.  Melissa Trudinger, beadrecipes
5.  Rana Lea, Rana Lea Designs
6.  Perri Jackson, Shaktipaj Designs
7.  Rita Avila, Jewel School Friends
8.  Linda Anderson, From the Bead Board
  10.  Erin Guest, Renlish


11.  Joan Williams, lilruby jewelry
12. Diane Hawkey, Diane Hawkey
13.  Jo-Ann Woolverton, It's a Beadiful Creation
14.  Sue Kennedy, SueBeads
15.  Lisa Cone, Inspired Adornments
16.  Kari Asbury, Hippie Chick Design
18.  Lori Jean Poppe, Adventures in Creativity
19.  Linda Landig, Linda's Bead Blog and Meanderings
20.  Lori Schneider, Bead Addict


21.  Molly Alexander, Beautifully Broken Me
22. Cece Cormier, The Beading Yogini
23.  Niki Sayers, Silver Nik Nats
24.  Elsie Deliz-Fonseca, Eliz-Eliz and All That Craft
25.  Amber Dawn, Inventive Soul
26.  Heather Powers, Humblebeads
27.  Sarah Goode, Pookledo
28.  Monique Urquhart, A Half-Baked Notion
29.  JJ Jacobs, Coming Abstractions
30.  Cheri Reed, Creative Designs by Cheri


31.  Robyn, Museiddity
32.  Catherine King, Catherine's Musings
33.  Jacquie, Bead Gypsy
34.  Janet McDonald, Singing Woods
35. Kay Thomerson, Kayz Kreations
36.  Tanty Sri Hartanti, TJewellicious by Tanti
37.  Hannah Rosner, Good River Valley
38.  Rochelle Brisson, A Creative Chelle
39.  Nelly May, Smelly Nelly
40.  Skylar Bre'z, Brising Beads


41.  Beti Horvath, Stringing Fool
42.  Christie Murrow, Charis Designs
43.  Leanne Loftus, First Impression Design
44.  Valerie Norton, Hot Art
45.  Judy Riggs, Rigglettes
46.  Crystal Thain, Here Bead Dragons
47.  Terry Carter,  Tapping Flamingo
48.  Sue, Mid-Life Great Expectations
49.  Nan Smith, Wired Nan
50.  Miranda Ackerley, MirandAck Arts


51.  Marie Covert, Creating Interest
52.  D'Arsie Manzella, This Here Now, Mamacita
53.  Stephanie Haussler, Pixybug Designs
54.  Lori Bergmann, Lori Bergmann Design
55.  Johanna Nunez, The Lovely One Design
56.  Mary Govaars, MLH Jewelry Designs
57.  Becky Pancake, Becky Pancake Bead Designs
58.  Alicia Marinache, All the Pretty Things
59.  Debbie Rasmussen, A Little of This, A Little of That
60.  Nat, Grubbi Ceramics


61.  Marjorie Savill Linthwaite, Bennu Bird Rising
62.  Cheryl McCloud, One Thing Leads to Another
63.  Heather Otto, The Crafthopper
64.  Candida Castleberry, Spun Sugar Beadworks
66.  JuLee Wolfe, The Polymer Penguin
67.  Ginger Bishop, Lil Mummy Likes
68.  Karen Mitchell, Over the Moon Design
69.  Jeannie Dukic, Jeannie's Blog
70.  Dini Bruinsma, Angaza by Changes


71.  Birgitta Lejonklou, Create With Spirit
72.  Shalini Austin, Jewellery by Shalini
73.  Jayne Capps, Mama's Got to Doodle
74.  Ile Ruzza, Ilenia's Unique Beaded Jewelry
76.  Annita Wilson, AW Jewelry 
77.  Sherri Stokey, Knot Just Macrame
78.  Hannah Trost, PZ Designs
79.  Linda Inhelder, Must Haves Jewelry
80.  Miri Agassi, Beadwork


81.  Hope Smitherman, Crafty Hope
82.  Dyanne Cantrell, Dee-Liteful Jewelry Creations
83.  Susan Bowie, Susan Nelson Bowie
84.  Megan Milliken, MaeMaeMills
85.  Menka Gupta, Menka's Jewelry
86.  Ambra Gostoli, Chic and Frog
87.  Lori Lochner, Bloghner
88.  Gerda Jurimae, Gerda's Crafts Blog
89.  Susan, Mistheword
90.  MaryLou Holvenstot, MaryLou's time2cre8


91.  Mary Shannon Hicks, falling into the sky
92.  Karin King, The Sparklie Things Blog
93.  Christa Murphy, Adventures of One Beady Woman
94.  Jenny Davie-Reazor, Jenny Davies-Reazor
95.  Donetta Farrington, Simply Gorgeous
96.  Mallory Hoffman, Rosebud 101 - For the Love of Beads
97.  Danielle Kelley, Imbue the Muse
98.  Kym Hunter, Kym Hunter Designs
99.  Dolores Rami, CraftyD's Creations
100.  Marcia Dunne, 13 Alternatives


101.  Marlene Cupo, Amazing Designs
102.  Emma Todd, A Polymer Penchant
103.  Wendy Holder, Jewelry by WendyLea
104.  Michelle Escano, The Cabby Crafter
105.  Louise Glazier, Lily and Jasmine Treasures
106.  Dana Hickey, Wind Dancer Studios
107.  Lennis Carter, windbent
108.  Anne Betenson, Crystal River Beads
109.  Audrey Belanger,  Dreams of an Absolution
110.  Lisa Stukel, Carefree Jewelry by Lisa


111.  Janine Lucas, Travel Stories
112.  Claire Lockwood, Something to Do With Your Hands
113.  Kathy Engstrom, Catherine's Dreams
114.  Paula Hisel, Simply Beadiful
115.  Karla Morgan, Texas Pepper Jams
116.  Mischelle Fanucchi, Micheladas Musings
117.  Kim, Cianci Blue
118.  Linda Sadler, Ida Louise Jewelry
119.  Karen, Spokalulu
120.  Jennifer LaVite, Dry Gulch Bead and Jewelry


121.  Andrea Glick-Zenith, ZenithJade Creations
122.  Karen Martinez, Fairies Market
123.  Robin Reed, Artistry HCBD
124.  Amy Bright, LABweorc
125.  Jasvanti Patel, Jewels by Jasvanti
126.  Tammie Everly, TTE Designs
127.  Karin Slaton, Backstory Beads
128.  Natalie Moten, Running Out of Thread
129.  Sharyl McMillian-Nelson, Sharyl's Jewelry & Reflections
130.  Jenny Kyrlach, Wonder and Whimsy


131.  LiliKrist, Handmade by LilK
132.  Jessica Klaaren, The Truth Space
133.  Cynthia Abner, Created Treasures
134.  Beth Emery, Stories by Indigo Heart
135.  Heather Davis, Blissful Garden Beads
136.  Jeanne, Gems by Jeanne Marie
137.  Sandi Volpe, Sandi Volpe
138.  Laren Dee Barton, Laren Dee Designs
139.  Steph, Confessions of a Bead Hoarder
140.  Carolyn Lawson, Carolyn's Creations


141.  B. R. Kuhlman, Mixed Mayhem
142.  Patty Miller, Cabari Beads
143.  Elizabeth Bunn, Elizabeth Beads
144.  Marianna Boylan, Pretty Shiny Things
145.  Lizzie Clarke, The Need to Bead
146.  Christina Miles, Wings 'n' Scales
147.  Patricia, The Color of Dreams
148.  Marde Lowe, Fancimar
149.  Ev Shelby, Raindrop Creations
150.  Sarah Small, By Salla


151.  Perri Jackson, Shaktipaj Designs
152.  Laurie Vyselaar, Lefthand Jewelry
153.  Pam Traub, Klassy Joolz                       You are here
154.  Lisa Harrison, Daisy Meadow Studio
155.  Anzia Parks, Anzi-Panzi's Work Shoppe
156.  Ingrid, Lilisgems Handcrafted Jewelry Inspirations
157.  Andra Weber, Andra's Joyful Journey
158.  Kelly Hosford Patterson, The Traveling Side Show
159.  Adlinah Kamsir, Dreamstruck Designs
160.  Marci, That Nothing Be Wasted


161.  Kris Lanae Binsfield,  Cherish Designs
162.  Stephanie Perry, Mustard Bead
163.  Birgit Klughardt, Gites Beads
164.  Inge von Roos, Inge's Blog
165.  Rebecca Sirevaag, Becca's Place
166.  Sandy Markley, Gypsy Spirit Designs
167.  Elena Adams, Lena's Beady Blog