Come see what I made!

Click here and come see what I made with beads by Barbara Bechtel of Floridity!  I tried some new techniques, including patinating copper, playing with asymmetry, and making my own toggle clasp.

Lori Anderson makes jewelry for Lori Anderson Designs and writes the blog Pretty Things and contributes to Art Bead Scene.  She is so glad summer is almost over.

Bead Soup For One -- Beading with Barbara Bechtel of Floridity

Please hop on over to Pretty Things and see what I made with Barbara Bechtel of Floridity's beads! I decided to challenge myself each month with my own personal Bead Soup Challenge (have you participated in one of my challenges?) and Floridity is the first Artisan of the Month.

Are you a bead maker -- ceramic, polymer clay, glass -- and would like to be a featured artisan? Email me and let's talk!


Lori Anderson designs jewelry for Lori Anderson Designs and also writes the blog Pretty Things. She lives on the eastern shore of Maryland.

Collaboration with Floridity

On my other blog, Pretty Things, I've run two Bead Soup Blog Parties, and they were really successful. They pushed other bead artists to design outside their box, really made them think in different ways.


To that end, I've decided to pay a bead artist once a month to send me, sight unseen, a set of beads so I could push myself again. Since the next Bead Soup party isn't until January, I felt the need to continually kick start my motor.


Please head over to this post at Pretty Things and take a look at what Barbara Bechtel of Floridity sent me!