In celebration of Summer, I am offering a free Bead Soup give-a-way…
To enter to win a box of my Bead Soup Collection, simply tell me which Bead Soup you would like, and what project you have in mind!
Just so you know... starting this Friday (June 2)
I will be closing shop for the summer so I can spend time with my family...
ON-LINE STORE OPEN THROUGH JULY 2, 2010
www.gilbertdesigns.net
Bead Soup Collection
Seed Bead Medley
EYE FOR COLOR
Earthtone Color Wheels
Beaded Colorways (while supplies last)
Jewelry Instructions on CD
CLOSED FOR THE SUMMER
OPEN AGAIN IN OCTOBER, 2010
winner to be announced on Friday, June 2
I would have to go with Harvest. I've been wanting to start one of those over-the-top, amazing collars that you see in bead dreams. It'll be like my signature piece that I'll wear around the house while doing laundry but pretending that I'm really a medieval queen who has a room of maidens doing laundry for her...
ReplyDeleteI'm in a summertime mood so I'll pick Citrus Twist. I'm envisioning a necklace with beaded charms.
ReplyDeleteGolden Raspberry for me! I took your Wander with Flair workshop in Houston at Adorn Me and love the technique. But I've never made anything with the colors in Golden Raspberry and would love the challenge. I'd also make some special polymer clay beads to incorporate as well. Fingers crossed!
ReplyDeleteAll of them, I love them all. To pick one I would say Antique Copper would be a favorite. I would love to try a freeform piece.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to say Sandy Beach, because my name is Sandi and that's enough of a reason, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteHappy Summer!!!
I love all of your soups but would choose either iron oxide or spring rain. I am really enjoying embroidering and beading onto naturally dyed and eco printed felt right now and most of my projects involve this.
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ReplyDeleteI would have to say Citrus Twist, although it's a hard choice! I want to do free form on metal as you show in your book.
Very difficult choice but I'd say one of my favorites is Olive Branch. It has a very elegant earthy feel, which I think would be great as a freeform necklace. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThey are all so gorgeous! Rainforest has just spoken to me and I would use them to make a cuff for my lovely stepdaughter who I don't see enough of. Enjoy your summer with your family :)
ReplyDeleteLady in Red, I want to do something subtle and restrained, not at all I am planning an statement necklace and it has to be RED.
ReplyDeleteOkay. The bead soup I'm very interested and intrigued by is "Atlantis." I saw it pictured in your newsletter and immediately had a picture in my mind of a bracelet showing water lapping on the shore. I got the idea from our beaches here in St. Pete. I haven't figured out all the details yet but I can see a wavy, free-form bracelet of some kind.
ReplyDeleteYou mean, announced July 2! ;) Sounds like a great giveaway...may the most creative (randomly chosen) person win!
ReplyDelete"Grass is always greener" - I'm going to be starting a fairy who lives in a golden apple tree and I can just see these beautiful greens adorning her body. If I use green perhaps she can stay hidden up in her magical tree.
ReplyDeleteI have just come back from a great trip to Utah and I am very inspired to make jewelry in the gorgeous red clay colors of the mountains and canyons we visited. All to say, I would choose red clay bead soup. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteCardamom - so I can imagine myself in Morocco in the market - with the aroma of spices
ReplyDeleteI would love the copper penny bead soup as it would compliment the piece of copper I am working on having taken a class with Mary Heptmansperger when she was out here in Australia, its not an easy mix of colours to find here.
ReplyDelete'Silver Sand' would be a lovely blend for my newest creations "Vintage Light" - using old, vintage chandelier prisms and turning them into wearable pendants. It has just the right vintage 'shine' to it.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your summer with your beautiful family, Beverly - I hope you still plan to occasionally blog. Just a photo or two? Please? :0)
So hard to choose from, but I think I would go with Citrus Twist as it looks so much like summer. I have been wanting to go a Beads on Metal project and this would really inspire me to get going on it. Have a great summer with your family.
ReplyDeleteI can't go past Taupe. I have wanted to create a beaded collar for about 2 years now. My gorgeous tigers eye cabochons have been patiently waiting for me to put them to good use so perhaps now is the time! I think the Taupe soup would look stunning with the tigers eye.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your summer and thanks so much for offering such a fantastic giveaway.
Karyn
If 'Pumpkin Spice' wasn't out of stock I would say that but 'Sun Burst' is a very close 2nd. (do you see a theme? ;)) I so want to do 'Rocks and Rolls' and I have the perfect shirt (which has been desperately waiting http://kristen-beadjourney.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-i-planned-to-do-and-what-didnt.html )to pair it with! This is what I have been looking for!!!!
ReplyDeleteHave and awesome summer and thanks for the chance to win!
Kristen
Oops - yes Joie, I mean July 2!!
ReplyDeleteWow - how nice! Antique copper would be my choice. I have a wedding to attend in August and a cuff bracelet made with that mix would just make my dress!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance!
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Sun Burst!!! I can see the embellished free-form peyote bracelet now!!!
ReplyDeleteTough choice, but I think I'll go with Autumn Leaves. A bead embroidery bracelet might be in my future.
ReplyDeleteGreat but difficult choice! My number one is Antique copper, always love that combination. And I can make viking knit myself now, so it would be a copper viking knit necklace with this bead soup!! Love it already :)
ReplyDeleteBest wishes,
Jorna
the Netherlands
hi Beverly,
ReplyDeleteit's just coming into the worst of winter here - my cat beat me to the best position in front of the fire.
I think a Wanderlust style bracelet, done in Coral Beach, would be just the thing to trick myself into thinking I was really on a tropical island (with the cat, of course!)
Barb Mahle
They are all just so gorgeous! I've yet to work with colors that are in Arabian Nights. I would do some kind of free-form bead embroidery.
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Michelle
I organize a bead class at the Bridgeport Rescue Mission Women's Program. We've recently begun doing freeform netting based on your book Beaded Colorways. Working on bead projects helps the women with patience, perseverance, cooperation and a real sense of accomplishment with the finished product. The women love each and every bead soup, so any one would be most appreciated. Thanks for your inspiration. Nancy Gould for the BRM Women
ReplyDeleteThey are ALL so gorgeous....but I can envision RAINFOREST for a project that's on my mind...threading those beautiful beads through an open link chain from which I will hang many charms.
ReplyDeleteArabian Nights! I'd make a fabulously lush necklace & bracelet-cuff set, to be paired with laid-back jeans & a simple tailored tee.
ReplyDeleteOh, I just love looking at them and meditating. But the Monet's Garden is the one I'd really be happy to have, because I'm planning a bead embroidered neckpiece in amethyst/teal/turquoise/green colours.
ReplyDeleteGolden Raspberry! :) Just got your book this week (Tuesday) and LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I have been having a lot of "a-ha moments" as made my first bead soup (started with about 12 beads, and ended up with about 20!) and finally began my first free-form beadweaving necklace!! Can't wait to make more! Anyway...next project will be to bezel set a gorgeous cabachon I have, and the Golden Raspberry mix would be just the ticket to complement that!
ReplyDeleteWell, since I bellydance, it would have to be "Arabian Nights". Maybe I'd make something for my costume or take a stab at something like the metal with beads projects you've created.
ReplyDeleteLove your stuff!
Monet's Garden is a lovely color harmony. I purchased a lamp work bead at the Bead & Button show and am eager to incorporate it into a necklace design.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your summer!
It is so hard to choose, but I think I would go with Grandma's Roses because our native roses are in bloom right now and beseeching me to make something reminiscent of them. I will most probably make a freeform bracelet so I can look at roses while I work.
ReplyDeleteNancy Simel
I just love them all! But if I had to pick one it would be Midnight - but since that one is OOS I guess I would go with Copper Penny. Luscious!
ReplyDeleteA project? Well, I don't bead, so I'd have to just run my fingers through them over and over! :D
I can't get past "Emily's Mix". The colors are so rich and yummy. I can see a lush bib necklace, full of twists and turns. Thanks for the chance to try one of your beautiful mixes.
ReplyDeleteHi Beverly--Enjoy your time off with the family. I'd never get anything done if I lived as close to the ocean as you! I still love "Arabian Nights" and show my "winning" box of beads to anyone who'll stop long enough to look. I can't bear to open it. :-) Again, have a great vacation. CJ
ReplyDeleteSandy beach, just because it's summer and because I love the nature-versus-man-made metallic tussle of the colours.
ReplyDeleteHave a super break! I hope to see you in the Fall.
Hi Beverly - I would LOVE Cardamom. I want you to know how much I enjoyed your classes at B&B this year (Beads on Metal and Wander with Flair). Your teaching, books, color charts and classes were a wonderful treat - thank you.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your vacation and time with your boys!-CS
i'm looking forward to October! Came to shop today and see your closed till then. That just gives me more time to save up extra money so I can buy even more in Oct. Have a fantastic summer!! I love that tropical punch and hydrangea you have in the seed beads..i'm kinda hoping you will create a soup to go with them :).
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