Yay! I'm a Bead Star finalist!

I came home from rabbit supply shopping (my entire life now, it seems) to discover that my entry in the Bead Star competition has made it into the next round. Yay! I'm pretty excited especially considering that I only entered one piece. I didn't feel that my style of work would fit in to most of their categories (they realllllly need a ceramics category, don't you think?) so I decided that the Hearts category would be the place for me.

I started with two of my large porcelain heart focal beads and joined them with an antique mother-of-pearl ring from which I hung a cluster of tiny porcelain hearts and frosted glass beads.

I am most proud of my handwrought copper heart chain (I love it so!). I am so tickled that an idea I came up with while driving home from the studio one night actually worked just as I had hoped and looked even sweeter than I imagined. I will be making lots of bracelets and necklaces with this link in the future, for sure. :)

If you want to participate in the voting please go to the Bead Star website and cast your votes. You have until May 30th. There are nine different categories with 20 finalists in each. Some of the work is just amazing so voting was a difficult task for me - except, of course, in the Hearts category. Hehe. :)