Sooooo, if your not my friend on facebook, then you don't know that my partner is Diana of Suburban Girl Studios! Diana makes gorgeous porcelain components and jewelry!
Being a woman of extreme means, I don't often get to buy art beads from other artists so participating in BSBP is really special for me because I get to trade beads with other awesome artists.
*side note: if/when I win the lottery, look out art bead makers everywheres cause i'll be on the loose with copious cash and suppressed ogling....
So Diana makes porcelain beads and we exchanged some brief emails discussing favorite colors etc. What I LOVE about BSBP is that you get to exchange a bit of discussion and then a little package arrives and it may or may not be what you expect! Sort of like Christmas....
So, Diana and I talked about colors, we were both into blues & greens etc. I told the "yeah, I like those colors but whatever, I'm completely flexible and I don't mind a challenge" (or at least that was what I was thinking)
SOOOO...I was completely tickled when I got this:
Because these are the colors that are way outside my comfort zone.
I got:
gorgeous lapis lazuli, AB czech glass, & to die for sari silk....
deep teal focal (and is it just my ignorance or is this so completely awesome that the back is glazed and the front is half-glazed, thereby making what is usually the ugly back of a ceramic into the totally awesome front?) because i know it is a complete pain to glaze both sides and the front is usually the one that gets glazed....
periwinkle toggle (super excited about this)....
periwinkle & teal beads and gorgeous green lampwork made by her husband (can we just uttter a collective jealous sigh that her husband makes lampwork beads?)
....and raku! gorgeous raku....Can I marry you raku? Oh wait, I swore off marriage after the first one went bad....okay, can we have a long, arduous, tempetuous affair? okay, good....
I'm so excited because this is a more cool blue/green palette than I normally visit. There are smatterings of purple (which I usually avoid) and deep royal blues and true teal/pthalo greens. I'm normally an aqua/robin egg blue girl so this is going to completely shatter my paradigm here people!
Diana's work is so lovely. I'm just bubbling with ideas! I think I change my mind daily when I gaze at the beads! That raku is just KILLING me literally. Those little raku charms (the ones that look like beads but are actually charms? Those knock my socks off...seriously.)
