Stupid beading tricks: Ollie’s Epic Bracelet and Mom’s Commission
I’m still working the bead thing. I still find it a lot of fun and a nice way to relax. This past weekend I created a cha cha bracelet from a bunch of pink beads that I picked up. It’s an easy monotonous project. Put some beads on a headpin, create a wrapped loop and attach the dangly to a link on a chain. I bought my chain from Michaels - silver plate. This bracelet is for me so I cheaped out on the materials.) Each link gets at least one dangly, as such…
When it’s done, you have a fun jingly bracelet with a lot of movement. Ollie watched me make the whole thing, so I’m naming this one “Ollie’s epic bracelet.”
This weekend before I got sick(er) Mom showed me a pendant and bead set she bought. They’re white with brown matrix. (Matrix is the term for a color swirled through a gemstone. Think of the black lines you see in some turquoise jewelry. Or fudge ripple ice cream. Or the frosting atop a toaster strudel. Forgive me, I’m very hungry.) We stopped in JoAnn fabric and I picked up some brown stone chips to go with. She’s swamped at work, so I did the necklace for her. I put the pendant on a headpin with two bead caps. The clasp is magnetic.
Presenting: “Mom’s Commission”
I had enough beads left over to make earrings, too!
And that’s all. I still need to fix my two “epic fail” bracelets from before. I tried to do a Tree of Life pendant but it ended up looking like a beady steel wool pad. I’d LOVE to do an illusion necklace next.
Mmm…toaster strudel. You know…I think I’ll have a nice cup of fat-free yogurt instead! (rolls eyes, sighs pitifully and slinks away to her miserable, sad, junk-food-free kitchen.)
