Family of Tassel Pendants

I have made a collection of tassels quite a while ago. I used a regular sewing thread for that because I like when the tassel is fine and soft. I have thought of creating some sorts of pendants but took me a while to decide how exactly I want them to look like.

First I tried with some simple strings of seed beads and a tassel on the middle just to realise that to keep it on the middle I would need some sort of weight around the tassel. I thought of using glass accent bead right before the tassel, but the idea seemed a bit plain.

Finally I came across this image on Pinterest which inspired me to use this kind of charms/links out of my old broken Pandora bracelet (bought few extra in my local craft shop). It also encouraged me to use different chains for different colour combinations.

And finally this is what I came up with.

Which one is your favourite? I don't really like khaki, but in a combination with mint and floral bead it looks pretty good to me :)

Bracelets Made of Earrings

For a light evening beading project I chose to make this lovely earrings called Mia from BeadsMagic

I was so pleased with how it turned out and how easy and fast it was to make one square so I just kept making them until I had enough for a bracelet. I have rather thick bones so I needed 6 squares for my hand. For my friend's hand I only had to use 5 squares. I have tried different clasp solutions with every one of them to not be to repetitive.

My favourite one is the first one I made - bronze with clear bicones.

Don't know what it is about it but I just LOVE how it turned out. There is something about it what gives it this wow factor. Is it the metallic bronze beads? Or the clear bicones? I have never used any of them for any other project before but now it's gonna be one of my favourite combinations.

Gold and green.

After finishing the first one I was truly convinced that metallic beads with any bicone would give me this WOW effect - I was wrong! My expectations were so high and the gold bracelet didn't deliver. Now, what if I would replace the bicone for some lighter colour? Would that be a solution?

Pastels.

I have shown few colour combinations to a friend of mine and she encouraged me to continue with this blue/green/peach mix. I personally have mixed feelings about it, but I learn to be more open minded about the accessories I make. Something I like might not necessary be also nice for others and vice versa.

Which colour combination is your favourite?

Simple Seed Bead Roses

So much happened in my beaded adventure since last year. I don't even know how to continue this blog now after missing so many great opportunities for all the craft related things to share. I'll just mention that I have been helping out in a hand made jewellery shop in my area and that got me plenty of experience into jewellery making. I been working there with plenty of different materials but in my heart I'm still a seed bead enthusiast and beadwaving brings me the most satisfaction.

I have mountains of 11/0 Czech seed beads which I impulsively bought last year at the beginning of my adventure. I haven't had chance to do much about them for ages and subconsciously I slowly started to move onto more expensive, but more regular in size, Japanese seed beads. But before I switch completely first I need to use up all those beads I already own.

That's where all this roses are coming from.

Silver lined

Matt 

Metallic

Clear, pink lined 

Opaque

Pattern from www.juliatraverso.blogspot.co.uk

Which flower is your favourite?

I still can't decide if this last purple beads are so spotty on purpose to create this stone looking effect or is it just some bad batch. I have got grey beads like this as well so maybe it's actually purposely? Whatever it is not it gave me as idea for a rope necklace on which I'm working at the moment.