Friday, March 22, 2013

A couple days ago, I posted this picture in a few communities I'm in, asking for ideas and how to use the beads.  
My boyfriend picked them out, and I love the colors. I got some great ideas and decided to try a 4-layer necklace (since I'm still practicing making them). 


My mom got me a whole bunch of charms and pendants for Christmas that I still haven't used, and this Dragonfly pendant is too cute. 
Here are some more pictures of the necklace.

I know the green bead and blue bead aren't even. I'm trying to figure out how to fix that without taking it all apart. 

I wanted to save some for matching accessories, and I started making a chunky charm bracelet to match. 
I had no idea how time consuming making charms are. I worked for about 2 hours, and only made about 30. 
I'm putting 2 on each link, a long one, then a shorter one on the other side, and switching sides to try to make it even all throughout. 


And this is where I'm at now:
Those are the only pliers I have. I'm missing 4 because my little brother doesn't know the difference between "Girl Tools" and "Boy Tools", even if they are pink and purple. 

*Also, I'm going to be trying out this whole linky-party thing with this post! Yay! I'm starting off with these 2*
 

4 comments:

  1. I love this! I make some jewelry, too, but I've never ventured out to using actual beads (I make t-shirt jewelry mostly). You've inspired me to try sometime, though!

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  2. Love the colors...one of my favorite combinations!

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  3. They are so pretty! The colors are very refreshing to the eye and complement the dragonfly pendant as it symbolizes nature and positive energy. Anyway, I enjoyed reading most of your post! I hope you could share more tips and tutorials on making pieces of jewelry such as Chinese charm bracelets if you have.

    -->Idaline Cirillo<--

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  4. Your boyfriend was kind enough to buy you all those fantastic beads and I can see that you've done a great job in making them into jewelries. It's easy to buy the fancy jewelry in the market but it's more satisfying to use your homemade ones. I can see that you've made a lot of very unique pieces, and I think you can earn big should you decide to sell some of them. :)

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