Wild Bird Wednesday

Just back from a short trip to the Reno area, got a couple of lifers this time!

Townsend's Solitair Life bird for me!

Crow or Raven, very tough to tell. Check out the Cheerios!!

A Juvie for sure but California or Ring-Billed, not sure about which one.

Scrub Jay another Life bird!

Scrub Jay, I love the look on his face

At first I thought Song Sparrow but I think it's a young White Crowned Sparrow.

Young White Crowned, nest mates maybe? They are so cute!

Another tough call, Coopers is my first guess but could be Sharp Shinned, hard to tell in this picture.

Wonderful fluffed up winter Robin

Robin

Northern Flicker in S Lake Tahoe

Nuthatch on the deck near Virginia City

I believe this is a Scrub Jay with a Bill Deformity. Wish I had gotten a better shot.

I reported the deformed bill to
http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/landbirds/beak_deformity/observerreport.html

Kristi

Bead Giveaway on the AJE Blog

Hey I'm giving away some Beads over at the Art Jewelry Elements Blog!!

Ancient Vaseline Glass Beads from Africa in beautiful yellow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass

More Ancient Vaseline Glass Beads from Africa in beautiful jewel tone green

Shiny AB coated teeth

Gorgeous faceted AB Glass Beads 

Amazing little Metal (Brass?) beads

Jasper slabs in all shapes.

Go to the AJE Blog HERE to enter.

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

Stringing Magazine Spring 2013

This beautiful Necklace by Andria Mckee has been featured in the

 Spring 2013 issue of Stringing Magazine.

 

You can purchase the ditigal option of this magazine HERE

AND

The necklace is available for purchase in Andria's Etsy Shop HERE

 

If you'd like to make your own creation with this Copper pendant I created

they are available for Pre-Order HERE

 

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

Production Mode #2

Yesterday I shared all the Discs I made in lots of different textures HERE.

I had a special order for some 3 hole Drops so this time I figured drops were my shape of the day.

These drops are much more time consuming than the discs were so I didn't get as many made, I filled in with some simpler rounds I'll share later.

As I've mentioned a couple of times I'm doing the

 Whole Bead Show
 May 3-5 at the Lynnwood Convention Center.


There's also still time to enter the
 AJE Component of the Month Challenge
HERE
Today is the last day to enter for your chance to create and share with Francesca Watson's wonderful Enameled Components.

Anything you see on my blog is always available to purchase even if you don't see it listed, just let me know!

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

Production Mode

When I make my Metal Clay pieces I usually make a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Changing shapes, sizes, textures and designs all within one batch all fired together.

As I've mentioned a couple of times I'm doing the

 Whole Bead Show
 May 3-5 at the Lynnwood Convention Center.

So that's changing how I'm creating for a little while,
it's called Production Mode.
For the most part I'm choosing a particular shape and using every texture I can find that will work with that shape and the entire load is in this case
Discs!

And lots of them!

And more to come!

And being the sneaky girl that I am I had to make one new non disc creation.

I call them Tribal Sticks.

I'm still playing with the size of these but I think these will work great.

I've never done a show like this so I have no idea how much to stock so I'm just creating full on until the day come so I'm sure to have enough.
I'm going to attempt to get some of the new stuff listed but anything you see here is ALWAYS available even if I haven't gotten them listed so just say the word and they will be on their way to you!!

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

AJE Earring Challenge #2 Reveal

The Art Jewelry Elements Blog is having an Earring Challenge, make 1 pair of earrings a week, 52 per year and share them on the AJE blog every other week.

This is Reveal #2 which includes weeks 3-4.

These are my 2 pair of earrings for this reveal.

Above I've used some new Copper Components I've made in the shape of a V with handmade texture.

The gorgeous Lampwork Discs are from HavanaBeads.

The second pair are also made from new Copper pieces I call Arrowhead with handmade texture.

Again the wonderful glass beads are from HavanaBeads.

Take a look at all the amazing creations made in the last 2 weeks by all 50+ participants.

You can always check out the Earring Challenge board on Pinterest as well.

And see you in 2 weeks for Reveal#3 weeks 5-6.

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

AJE January Component of the Month REVEAL

On the Art Jewelry Elements Blog for the Month of January we all had a wonderful Pie Bead from Karen Totten of Starry Road.

I chose this wonderful Burnt Red color and knew I wanted some how to include turquoise color with it.

Indian Summer

My first idea was for it to be a necklace but I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted so I went to plan B and Plan C and finally got to this.

I really love it, Karen's wonderful Bead paired with a pair of my Copper Components and a splash of bright Turquoise Sari Silk.

I also recently got a Wire Coiling Gizmo and went to town with that, it's so much fun and addicting!

I used some Artistic Bronze wire and combined it with copper, I love mixing metals.

There are 12 participants in this reveal,

Hop along and take a look at their creations!

Shirley Moore
Boot-C

Jennifer Cameron

Kristi Bowman-Gruel

Diana Ptaszynski

Kristen Stevens

Jenny Davies-Reazor

Lesley Watt

Francesca Watson

Melissa Meman

Joanne Tinley

Linda Landig

Sue Kennedy
ArtZhodgepodge

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy