November 2023 Honey Do List

2023 marks the eighth year that my husband Eric has been giving me a design challenge each month to get me out of my comfort zone and to help clear out my bead stash... The Honey Do List!  (Y'all, time really does fly!!)  I know that I'm not the only one who loves a good design challenge, so I'm hoping folks will continue to play along with us!

Here's this month's inspiration and what Eric had to say about it:

Just a scoop!  On our recent trip to the Czech Republic to visit bead and glass factories galore...I took some pics of beads.  Lots of beads.  This one may be a little too easy of an inspiration, but there you go. Go blue!  Go glass!  Go crazy!

Ok, so the blues in Eric's inspiration photo aren't necessarily the tones I gravitate towards the most, but I wanted to stay true to the idea of a mix of beads in blue tones.  For starters I made a couple of multi-strand bracelets with Golem Design Studio ceramic lentils and a mix of Czech glass beads.  Both bracelets even feature some of the beads that I brought back from the Czech Republic!  

I wanted to make at least one more design for this challenge playing off of all those bright blues.  I decided that the most appropriate focal to play with was a lovely floral porcelain pendant from Artisticaos... lots of great blues in this one!  I cut open a mix of Czech glass beads that I bought at the Preciosa gift shop on our Czech trip as well used some of those as well as some other beads we bought on that trip.  I also picked through a couple of other blue bead mixes that I had floating around.  I'm really happy with the way this one turned out!

Now it's your turn!  Please add links to/photos of your own creations below.  I love seeing what everyone else is making too.  Not ready yet?  No problem, I'll leave the link up open until late next month.  Check back on December 1st to see what Eric has in store for us next!  I know he's got tons of new photos he's been going through.

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Inspiration for the November 2023 Honey Do List

Sorry for our absence last month, but we were off having a grand, beady adventure in the Czech Republic that didn't really leave me with much time to create at home.  But we're back and full of excitement and inspiration.  I know Eric will have tons of great ideas for the Honey Do List for a good while to come.  

2023 marks the eighth year that my husband Eric has been giving me a design challenge each month to get me out of my comfort zone and to help clear out my bead stash... The Honey Do List!  (Y'all, time really does fly!!)  I know that I'm not the only one who loves a good design challenge, so I'm hoping folks will continue to play along with us!

Here's this month's inspiration and what Eric had to say about it:

Just a scoop!  On our recent trip to the Czech Republic to visit bead and glass factories galore...I took some pics of beads.  Lots of beads.  This one may be a little too easy of an inspiration, but there you go. Go blue!  Go glass!  Go crazy!

The reveal date will be Monday, November 27th.  To make it super easy for you to participate and share your creations, I'll set up an Inlinkz link up so folks can add their blogs or links as they are ready.  Just stop by my blog starting on November 25th and join the fun!  I'll leave the link up open for a while... so you have plenty of time to add your links.  No blog?  No worries!  Feel free to send me a picture of your creation and some brief comments and I'll happily share in my blog post.  You can reach me at sjdesignsjewelry@gmail.com  The more the merrier, so I hope you'll play along with me this month!