Collaborate with Brenda Schweder: Art Jewelry Auction for Beads of Courage

 

The Collaborate with Brenda Schweder: Art Jewelry Auction for Beads of Courage countdown continues!    👶👧🏽🧒🏿👦🏻👩🏾👦🏻🧒🏿👧🏽👶👧🏽🧒🏿👦🏻👩🏾👦🏻🧒🏿👧🏽👶👧🏽🧒🏿👦🏻👩🏾👶 Are you watching your bids closely?  'Cause I know that you know that ALL of these fabulous jewelry works are one-of-a-kind! And not only that, the pieces in this collection are infused with ❤️love❤️! [Side Story: As an alum of Mount Mary University women's college, where many of my professors were nuns, I received a baby shower gift of booties from my prof-turned-friend, Sister Theresa. She told me that the tiny shoes were indeed hand-crafted by nuns who knit love in every stitch! Now you know the flood-gates 😭 opened at that moment for this very hormonally pregnant mom-to-be!] And I feel the same way about these jewelry pieces ... there is love in every pound of the hammer and closing of each jump ring!  But back to the Auction ... here are a few FAQ's you might be interested in: + 70 FANTASTIC art jewelry works + Made by 30+ jewelry maker friends + 17 of whom donated 2 or more pieces + 18 of those 70 pieces feature TV Tray bits from  my antique store find [see above]. The auction runs through Monday, the 12th, so get those final bids in before 11:59pm that day.  The direct link is here at Bidding Owl.com.    BID, BID, BID! SHARE, SHARE, SHARE! Please support Beads of Courage and the children they serve by bidding early and often AND sharing the call through your social networks!             Miss my yesterday's Facebook Live Broadcast tutorial, Loves? We had a little Diamante Rhinestone Mesh Netting madness going on! My first week of the Bring It On!! Month of Live Broadcasts--aka the first of my self-imposed jewelry-making component challenges--tackled using the white version of this awesome fabric! I created an orange aluminum wire 3D TreasureTrap [NTaJ! version pattern is here and non-jig pattern and instructions here] and then captured a fun die 🎲  inside. [We pretended the casino memento was from our fateful win at the Lady-Luck tables!]   I also listed a few sample sizes of the mesh netting in green, blue or white in my Etsy shop in case you're interested in trying a bit for yourself. Join me next week at 2pm [ <<same bat time; same bat channel>> ] Brenda Schweder Jewelry Facebook page for my next challenge tutorial: Fiber Craft Beads [I call them Prince beads as they're the bead Formerly known as 🐴 Pony ... ahem!].     Know another SpecialGuest who shares our spirit? Our curiosity for the found, the whimsical, the Odd with a capital O? Another Weirdo-in-Waiting? Wave our official FreakFlag, Loves, by clicking below—it’s like a tap-on-the-shoulder for the geek club we self-assign! (Apologies to the jocks and preps!) SubscribeHere     Want a direct link to Brenda’s Etsy shop? Click here!