Perlensuppe is German for bead soup. And my bead soup has arrived! Yesterday I picked it up from the post office, a heavy little package from Germany! Of course I ripped it open as soon as I got home. And it was packed full of inspiration from my bead soup partner Sandra Wollberg.
First of all there are some beads, lots of them! Indian glass beads, Czech glass leaves and flowers, a strand of mixed critters ranging from butterflies to frogs and even scarab beetles, a strand of dragonfly-embossed coin-shaped beads, cultured pearls, delicately painted Chinese shell beads, peanut seed beads. The beads are richly coloured in both earthy and more vibrant shades.
Then there are the special components. First of all some polymer clay leaf headpins made by Sandra herself. Then a big Czech glass button, again with the dragonfly.
And three ceramic components from Blu Mudd—an owl pendant, a bracelet bar and a toggle clasp.
Finally some sari silk in a lovely rust colour. And a few sheets of mica, to stretch my creativity to the limits!
There’s definitely a theme to the soup—a kind of woodsy, late summer, early autumn theme. The ideas are spinning around, I think I can make some beauties! Thanks again Sandra, I hope you like your soup just as much! Fingers crossed it arrives really soon!
Oh, Sandra also sent me a little gift, a pair of vintage cuckoo clock earrings! I can just imagine these in a little gift shop somewhere, waiting for the right person to come along and buy them. Aren’t they sweet?
I’ll be posting about the soup I sent Sandra once she has received it. Reveal date for the 8th Bead Soup Blog Party is not too far away now … 3 May!
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That is just so beautiful!!! Melissa! I hope you have a wonderful time with all of those amazing beady goodies!!!
What a gorgeous, precious soup!
Wow!! A lot of stunning beads!!!!
I’m so glad you like your “Perlensuppe”! 😀 I had sort of a foresty/crittery theme going on, if I’d had any squirrel or acorn beads, I would have added those too! And late summer/early autumn is actually my favorite season, so this may have been my subconscious at work here … 😉
The earrings I snagged up at a flea market a few years back, I was told they were from a little souvenir shop which once existed close to Hainerberg in Wiesbaden, where many US Army members and their families are housed. Unfortunately, the shop had to close down eventually.
OMG, that is a gorgeous soup! Yummy!