Into the forest...

... or making good on my Word of the year choice :)

Back in the summer Lisa of A Grateful Artist set up one of her lovely blog hops: she puts together mystery packages with a theme and the participants create with the beads they receive.

Her theme for the January blog hop is 'Into the forest' and I received a treasure: luscious purple and white beads of all sorts (crystals, metal, glass, ceramic, pearls, mother-of-pearl chips) along some teeny-tiny brown seed-beads and a ceramic pendant by Marla James:

Into the forest elements: purple, white, and silver beads in various mediums
(glass, ceramic, metal, glass pearls, mother of pearl)
and teeny-tiny seed beads, along with a tree ceramic focal by Marla James

 

Into the forest elements: purple, white, and silver beads in various mediums
(glass, ceramic, metal, glass pearls, mother of pearl)
and teeny-tiny seed beads, along with a tree ceramic focal by Marla James

Luckily for me, Monique mentioned a blog hop on January 11th (yes, I usually add them in my calendar! I forgot about this one :) ) so this is what happened yesterday at midnight

Into the forest sneak-peak ~ spiral rope

... but to see the end result you'll have to wait almost a full week, until Saturday, January 11th!

P.S. How am I making good on my choice word for 2014? Imagine that I finished the piece *today*, almost a full week before the reveal! I even took pictures and wrote the blog post too!

I'm achieving my goals and I am not procrastinating. Now to keep up with it :)