Captured Treasures Blog Hop: Incorporating Found Objects Freeform Peyote Challenge and Blog Hop

Quite the long title, but today is the reveal for the long-awaited Freeform Peyote Found Objects Challenge.  Many thanks to everyone participating in the challenge - it's you that makes it a success.

This time around I've tackled a much larger project, which you may have heard me talk about. I'm doing a beaded bottle that's supposed to look like it's just been dragged out of the ocean.

I always tell challenge participants that their work doesn't need to be totally complete: they can share in-process pieces as well.  That's very much the case with my piece.  As you can see from the photo its very much in process.  I took these photos Thursday night after dark.   I'd hoped to take more photos today, but that didn't work out at all.  

My plan is to totally encrust this bottle with freeform peyote, shells, rocks, sea glass and other treasures collected from beaches in Hawaii, the Bahamas and Carribean, and closer to home here in the Pacific Northwest encompassing about ten years worth of travels.

It looks a little more finished from this angle

As a side project, I'm trying to fill it with messages (Messages in a Bottle) from as many people as possible. So if you'd like to write a message for my bottle, here's your special invitation!  I'd love for it to be filled with stories, quotes, prayers, affirmations and wishes, real or imaginary.  Many thanks to everyone who has already sent me messages for my bottle!

I promise to post more photos as this project progresses.

Now here's the full list of participants, many of them members of our intrepid Freeform Peyote Beading Facebook Group:

Mandi Ainsworth - host
Karen Williams - host
Nancy Dale
Regina Roper
Lisa Jones
Romana Tschunko
Catherine Chinoy
Therese Frank

the bottle with some of the pieces I plan to add

Naan Pocen
Annita Wilson
Halinka Trolle
Sally Russick
SaraBeth Cullinan