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September 29, 2014

Stupid beading tricks: planning

I haven’t been doing a lot of jewelry making lately. But I’ve been doing some planning!

I bought this pendant in a moment of weakness from White Clover Kiln. I want to make it into a necklace similar to the orange flower one that I did before. Instead of launching right into it, I sketched it out first.

Future necklace
Future necklace

I think I’m going to go with the Autumn Chirp palette for inspiration for the beads on the chain.

I’m definitely making bracelets out of the red poppy beads I bought at Beadfest. I found a bit of inspiration on Pinterest, and decided to use leather.

Future bracelets
Future bracelets

It’s nice to be able to think things out a bit before just hopping in with my wire and beads and creating a bunch of crap before something nice comes along. I need leather tab closure thingies though. And some copper chain for yet another idea I have. (Yay shopping!)

Posted In: Beading, Hobbies · Tagged: bracelet, I make jewelry, necklace


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