In One Door with a Zodiac full of Peanuts

Hey everybody, First off I want to say Happy Easter. Jesus has risen!  Secondly, I am sorry I was not able to be here last week.  The addition was finished and we were so busy moving things around that I did not have any time for much else! This week however, I was able to get caught up and do this weeks challenges.

But first, lets get to last weeks.  Over at Every Inchie Monday the theme was Door.  My first thought was something like a door is the window to the soul.  LOL  I know that is not how the saying goes but that was what I thought about so I designed an open door, looking outside into clouds. This inchie has 4 colors of Delicas and I like the look of the clouds, don't you?

 

Also last week over at 2x2x2 the theme was Zodiac and I am not really big into the horoscope thing so I was out of my depth with this theme.  But I do love the birthstones, would love to have a bunch of them to make jewelry with.  So for me I made me and my kids and zodiac signs in their birthstone colors, with some added stripes on the opposing corners.  For this twinchie I also used 4 colors of Delicas.  Here is the finished product.  Below is the a screen grab of the pattern made from BeadTool4 the program that I use to design my patterns.  I sent this to 2x2x2 since I was not able to finish the pattern.  I just did not want to not turn something in, you know what I mean?

Now, let's get to this weeks kinda fun.  Over at EIM the theme this week is Peanuts.  We have been working off of the theme from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and I am not 100% familiar with the book. I did see the movie but I am sure that does not do the book justice.  But for me when I think of peanuts I always think of the cartoon, of course.  But the best part of the cartoon for me was not the kids, (I did not like Lucy or Peppermint Patty, or the adult voices for that matter!)  But I always loved Woodstock! He would never fly in a normal straight line.  He always did his own thing and did not ever care what others thought.  Gotta love that cute little bird!  For this inchie I used 3 colors of Delicas and I just adore this one.  Don't you?

 Also this week I was able to participate in Dry Gulch's Monthly challenge.  If you notice I now have a button on the right side of my blog for it.  You can click on it and follow it to the Facebook page that shows this months colors.  This piece took me about 2 weeks to complete since I could only work on it a few minutes a day.  This is a 10 strand 60" seed bead necklace in the 5 colors for this month, each section of five colors was separated by off white marble beads.  It can be twisted and worn tight, or left loose.  As a single necklace or doubled up and worn shorter.  It can also be worn as a bracelet. The inspiration for this came from Night from Ipanema by Fernando Dasilva.  Check this one out.

Well, that is it for me this week.  So please don't forget to fly on over to EIM, 2x2x2 and Dry Gulch to check out all the awesome works over there and have a blessed and creative week my friends.