Pendragon Photo Contest Week 1

We here at Pendragon Cottage love to do photography. We decided to do a weekly photo contest with each of us posting one photo a week on Sundays and the winner would be determined on Monday. The winner each week gets to determine the theme for the following week.  This weeks theme was Wild Card.  Question was, how to decide who would win? We thought and thought and pondered some more and we came up with a great idea. We are going to leave it up to you! If you would be so kind as to vote on one of the three submissions that would rock! Its a fun, playful contest, it certainly has the potential to motivate those of us here at Pendragon Cottage. Me, of course Sandra of Pendragon Jewelry. Sadie Pendragon the intelligent and talented daughter of you know who. (Of course I have to say these biased comments I am the mom) and last but far from least. The intuitive, insightful philosopher Marcus of the Millennium.  Please leave a comment with your vote for Photo A, B or C. Thanks!

Here we go with our 1st entries.

Photo A
Cycle of Life

Photo B
Fairy lights at Sayen Gardens

Photo C
Ice sculpture at Mount Holly

Look what I got in the mail today!!

Here are the ingredients in my soup:

A large array of fun! 

Beautiful porcelain focal swirl bead by Marsha Neal

Hand made clasp with lovely glass bead made by Elisabeth

These glass beads are just spectacular.  Elisabeth made them! 

The top two are just dreamy.  I am so excited to find something special to do with those.

  

Let's make some soup!!!

Juna's sweet valentine.  

Wonder who she will give it to.  

We will have to wait and see.

I received an email this chilly morning letting me know who my Bead Soup partner is.
Lori Anderson is just amazing, putting this all together when she was horribly sick with the flu.  So happy to say my bead partners name is Elisabeth Auld.  She has a beautiful blog at http://www.beadsforbusygals.com.  I am quite the excited one with this being my first Bead Soup.  It will be fun to see what she will do with the beads and such that I send her.  And also a challenge for me to see what my muse will inspire me to do with the goodies she sends me.  

www.BeadSoupBlogParty.com

Soooo excited! I was just reminded by my friend Tracy Kruse from goldkissesart.blogspot.com/ about the 7th annual Bead Soup Blog Party! I do love a good party and I love it even more because it has to do with beads and jewelry and talking about beads and jewelry. I have been following it for years now, but have never signed up for it. Well, I signed up today. For those of you who have never heard of it, you sign up on the site http://www.prettythingsblog.com/ and you are paired with another beader and send each other a stash of beads through the mail. You must create a design using some of the beads, clasp and focal bead. You then take photos of what it is you have created and what it is you created it out of. It is so much fun to see all the creative minds busy at work and seeing what was sent and what was made from it. I will find out on Feb 3 who I am paired with. More to come.

Yes, I confess, I am a beadaholic! Sigh, I feel a little better now that I got that off my chest. The reason I confessed? I will be off to the Beadfest this Friday!! Beadfest, my dream come true. Where I am with "people like me". Where I can get ohhs and ahhs when I show my treasures around the lunch table to complete strangers and I will not feel bad for buying that extra 10 strands of beads I really did not need, but had to have because they are shiny. Beadfest, where everywhere you look there are jewelry things and deals and people making pretties and ohhhh, I do love it there! It is in Phila, so it is a little trek. But I take that hour ride to make a plan. With two packed floors, you need a general plan. Oh yeah! I am excited. Yahhoooooo More when I get back!