Wild Bird Wednesday

 So many wonderful bird pictures from my weekend trip to the Port Townsend WA area.

Female Anna's Hummingbird in Discovery Bay WA

She posed for me for some time so I actually have so many wonderful shots of her it was hard to pick out only a couple.

Bald Eagle Preening, Discovery Bay WA

Golden Crowned Sparrow in Sequim, WA

I believe this is an juvenile Bald Eagle, there were many adults around.

Sequim, WA

Wonderful little White Crowned Sparrow singing it's heart out.

There were many of these around singing for the world, and very cooperative with me taking their picture!

Discovery Bay, WA

  

A pair of Raven, from a distance they almost looked like one large bird.

Sequim, WA

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

Whole Bead Show Giveaway

I'll be a vendor for the first time at the Whole Bead Show in Lynnwood Washington

May 3-5.

 Hope some of my online friends can join me there!!

To help out I'm giving away a VIP Pass for 2!

Comment and share below and I'll draw a winner on Wednesday the 24th!

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

Customer Gallery

So many new creations out there I thought it was time to share what my lovely customers have been up to these last few weeks.

Hibiscus Flower earrings by

Gloria Ewing

Copper and Lucite earrings by 

Pobbletoes

Earrings using some of my new Polymer Clay Cocoons by

SueBeads

Spotted Lampwork and Sea Urchin by

Shadow Dog Designs

Celtic Earrings by

TheIrishLassieShop

Beautiful Earrings using my new Polymer Clay Hibiscus Flowers by 

Linda Landig

I hope you've enjoyed seeing some of the new creations my wonderful customers have to offer.

These and many others are on my design board on Pinterest,

Click HERE if you'd like to follow along.

Thank you for taking a look!

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

Carving Polymer Clay

Check out the results of my latest experiment with Polymer Clay.

Click on the picture below to go to my post on the Art Jewelry Elements Blog. 

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

Sorbet

Who doesn't love Sorbet!!

I think these colors are definitely Sorbet colors.

Pistachio, Lemon, Vanilla, Orange and Raspberry.

All drizzled in Chocolate sauce!

I've listed a few sets and I haven't decided how I'm going to break the rest of them,

 I've been putting them in sets of 4-5 with a variety of colors.
HERE

 Does anybody them broken in to pairs of one color?

That's always the first thing I want to do but I've been trying to change it up a bit.

I think I've done enough of these, now on to something new!

Don't know what that is yet. :)

If you missed yesterday's new beads click
HERE

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

New Colorful Beads

Trying something new this time with Polymer Clay, nice big chunky colorful beads.

 I hope you love them!!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/127249668/handmade-polymer-ammonite-2-sided-disc

https://www.etsy.com/listing/127249668/handmade-polymer-rustic-lace-2-sided

These beads happen to fall in to the Focusing on Life Challenge as well. Observe the Curve.

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy

Playing with Purple

I know being St Patricks day the color O the day should be green
 but I've been mixing some of my alcohol inks for more than just straight primary colors
 I've used so far.
 Don't get me wrong I am happy with how the bright bold saturated colors but feel the need to experiment further.

Purple is one of my favorite colors so I mixed it with a little white to get lovely Lavender.

Flower Headpins in Lavender and Purple.

Ammonite Headpins in Purple

Bullets, one pair of Tribal Texture in Lavender

and a pair of Ammonite and Snakeskin in Natural or Faux Bone.

One thing I've been wondering lately, how do you display headpins at a show.

I have one coming up in just over a month and I have no idea how I'm going to do it.

I've thought about putting them by pair in individual bags and then upright in a box so they can be picked through but I think I want to find a way so they can be seen without having to work at it.

Anybody have an idea, have experience with this, I'd love to hear it!

Kristi

KristiBowmanDesign.Etsy