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Allegory Gallery Design Challenge, Andrew Thornton, David Christensen, Green Girl Studios, Kaleidoscope, Ragged Robyn, William Jones
Today is the reveal for the Allegory Gallery Design Challenge – Kaleidoscope edition. This kit is gorgeous and rich with materials. Here are the pictures.
Here are some of the bigger beads in the kit, a couple tubes of seed beads, handmade beads, a gorgeous multi-color strand of chip beads and some colored floss.
Here is a close up of the pendant, handmade by Andrew. Below is the luxury bead blend. 
I first wanted to use some of the handmade components, including the pendant Andrew made. I’m assuming he also made the two kaleidoscope looking polymer beads. I love all three of these beads. They are so rich in color and pattern. I used two together in my first necklace.
For the pendant, in addition to those two polymer beads, I used a tiny ceramic bead in the same colorway by Ragged Robyn and the carved rose colored bead from the kit.
I have been collecting furnace glass (a.k.a. art glass, a.k.a cane glass) for a while to make a necklace, and I thought this could be the necklace to do it. Each piece of glass is like a little kaleidoscope. There were also a few pieces of furnace glass in the kit’s luxury bead blend. 
I’ve already decided to restring this! I want to add seed beads in the rose color to make the piece more cohesive and give the space between the furnace glass beads a little more heft. I just haven’t had time to do it yet.
Next I started a necklace using the green kaleidoscope-esque bead from the kit. This went through a variety of iterations. I had planned to include a tassel, but in the end I separated those ideas. In looking for more beads to use in the necklace, I came across a set of green hollow lampwork beads I got in a destash. I’m sorry; I don’t know the artist. I combined those with the clear beads and some of the larger seed beads from the kit. I like how this picture shows the AB effect on some of the clear beads. Very kaleidsocope-y. 
I love the chunky fabulousness of this necklace. This piece seems the most kaleidoscope-y to me. I was actually looking through a kaleidoscope the other day, and what I saw wasn’t a bunch of different colors but a bunch of the same thing, each one slightly different, all clustered together. That’s what I see in this necklace. I finished it with a Green Girl Studios swirl hook.
Lastly, I made a bracelet. As I had the furnace glass out, I used a large rainbow piece by David Christensen. I added a clear plastic bicone bead from the kit, one strand of chip beads from the kit, a strand of various beads from the luxury blend and a strand of my own mauve seed beads with some of the kit large seed beads. 
I enjoyed this kit very much. This challenge is also a competition! See what others have made by visiting the Allegory Gallery Design Challenge Facebook page. Thank you Andrew and William!
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