The Invitations went out and 30 wonderful artists and creative jewelry people RSVP to join Shelley and me in a celebration of each other's Unbirthday. We had so much fun with this surprise HBBH and I hope all of our attendees did too!My partner in the hop was Lori Schneider, who works in a very challenging Alzheimer patient care center. Bless her for that. She makes some gorgeous pieces which are seen through her blog. Love the "feather necklace" she did for the Facebook Non-Blogger Challenge, which you can see here. We contacted each other about what month our birthdays were celebrated. Her's is in June, and we decided on bracelets for each other.
From the chart we originally posted on the Hop, Alexandrite was listed as her birthstone, but she mentioned pearls, so what's a gal to do?
Well, both of course!
I had received the most delicious milky white, and deep purple dew drop pearls from DiYana Alcalde, in a swap and decided they were perfect for Lori's first bracelet. I decided to do a modified double strand of them with antique silver spacers I had in my stash to bring them together. Problem was the stones in the center of the spacers were a chartreuse green (UH, NO) so I plucked them out and replaced them with smaller pearls to match the ones from DiYanna. 
Once everything was strung together, I used an antique silver clasp with extender from a muse box I had gotten a while ago from Brenda Sue Lansdowne.
It's a somewhat under stated design, but I think right along the lines of what Lori will like.
My next task was to tackle the Alexandrite colored one. It is one of my favorite colors and I had beads hoarded that matched it perfectly.
Some Alexandrite beads taken from a bracelet that was in Brenda Sue's muse box, along with a fantastic gold tone box clasp, some Czech glass beads from CascadiaBeads, and other complimentary colored goodies from my stash, which I did up in a three strand bracelet. 
Lori almost didn't get this one. Not because I wanted to keep it, but several others did, including my daughter (birthstone is Amethyst), so I had to get it into mail to Lori, without them knowing.
If you want to see more about what Lori made for me
(being worn over and over again),
go to the link above, or down to the link list below.
I am going to be having a great time looking at all the Unbirthday Goodies and hope you join me. Enjoy!
The Party Crew:
Ali McCarthy
Alicia Marinache
Anzia Parks
Audrey Belanger
Cheri Reed
Cheryl Dunham
Chris Eisenberg
Christine Schlicht
Cynthia Machata
D Lynne Bowland
Dyanne Everett-Cantrell
Gina Hockett
Ginger Bishop
Gloria Allen
Janeen Burlingame
Joana Perez Stribel
Lori Schneider <My Partner
Mary Govaars
Mischelle Fanucchi
Paula Gaskill
Renetha Stanziano
Robin Reed
Sherry Baun
Shirley Moore
Sierra Barrett
Susan Bowie
Susie Harris
Mowse Doyle
Cindy Muse
Shelley Graham Turner
Marlene Cupo < You are here
Ok, you know they are both gorgeous, but I just adore that pearl bracelet! Depending on which chart you look at, they will list pearls or amethyst. (I'm a June baby too) I bet she squealed when she opened those! Great job! And thank you both for this challenge, it was a bunch of fun!
ReplyDeleteI just love the bracelets you made. The second one is my fav.
ReplyDeletethose are beautiful Marlene! I can see why they were trying to 'steal' it :O
ReplyDeleteBoth of these gifts were beautiful, I would have been trying to steal them too, lol!!!Great party, thanks for the invite! Gina H
ReplyDeleteI had to create with 'alexandrite' too... THis was a fun swap thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful job on both bracelets. I can easily see both of these worn dressed up or in jeans. I really love all of the soft colors of the triple stand one.
ReplyDeleteJaneen B
Lovely Marlene as always. I like the 3 bracelets in one best LOL.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful work !!!!! <3 <3 <3
ReplyDeleteThose are just such beautiful pieces of jewelry. I love both of these bracelets. Amazing job. Thanks for sharing your creations wiyh us.
ReplyDeleteI love both of your bracelets! Beautiful colors! Happy Unbirthday! Thank you for hosting a fun hop!
ReplyDeleteThanks for co-hosting this great event, I had a good time. Your bracelets you made are really pretty, now hopping to your partner to see what she made you!
ReplyDeleteCheri