The bead soup I sent

As promised, here is a picture of the soup I sent to Joanne.

Joanne had told me that her skin reacts very sensitive to copper and brass, so all metal in here is solid sterling silver. The sea urchin (epoxy clay) , the cotton pearls and the clasp were handmade by me.

Bead Soup, again ;)

Oooops, did I really forget to show you the lovely silver clasp that Joanne sent along with her bead soup as a "little" extra!?

I love it! It's so fine! Thank you ever so much, Joanne!
If you would like to own one of her beautiful handmade jewellery supplies, you can buy it here!

"You got Royal Mail" - Bead Soup is here!!!

When I came home from work yesterday, there was an envelope waiting for me on the kitchen table, and it had a British stamp on it.

My first thought was: "Finally Mr. Bond asks me to be his new Bond Girl!", ....

... but then I turned the envelope around and saw that it was from Joanne, my incredibly talented Bead Soup partner.

(Okay, Mr. Bond, don't let me wait too long, because next time I might say NO! )

Just kidding.

I won't say no.

But back to topic:

When I opened the envelope, I found ths pretty card in it.

And a beautiful brown organza bag (unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of it, but I took 6 pictures of the envelope...ts,ts) with little packages in it, carefully wrapped in brown paper.

Here's what was in the packages: Three most beautiful lampwork beads (made by Isabelle Anderson), matte white and sparkling purple czech glass beads, some round copper beads, some copper rings (handmade by Joanne) and one of her georgeous handmade copper clasps!

The colour scheme will challenge me (that's part of the fun, you know) , but I love everything about my soup. You should see the lampwork beads - in reality they are so much more beautiful!

And I can't stop touching the copper clasp. It's perfect.

The dust on the czech glass beads was not in the package... it was in the bowl I put the soup in. If there is something that I am not, it's a good housewife ;)
If you would like to see the soup that I sent to Joanne, you can either wait for my next blog post or visit Joanne's blog :)

My Bead Soup partner and what she'll receive from me

This time, my bead soup partner is the fabulous Joanne Tinley (Daisychain Designs) from the UK. If you don't know her already, please go to her blog by clicking here! You won't regret it, I promise!!! She also has two etsy shops: one for supplies and one with her beautiful jewellery creations.

When I first saw who my partner was, I (honestly!!!) shoutet out: "Jackpot!" - we say that in Germany, too.

Obviously she and I both have different styles, but I really love her jewelry... oh, sorry, she lives in the UK, so it's jewellery of course... ;)

Here are some examples of her work:

Isn't she fantastic!?

I also really love her blog. She offers a lot of free tutorials there, and the pictures of her two little boys are too cute!

And here,

finally,

...

tadaaaaaaaa,

...

as promised,

is the bead soup I am going to send her:

Ooooooops, what's that!? Oh no! Something must be wrong with my camera! I'm so sorry for that! Hopefully I will manage to take some better pictures for reveal day... ;)