The girls chose the beads they liked and the overall look they wanted for their pieces. Then I showed them how to make bead links with wire wrapping wire. That was the hardest part. After they finished making their links, I showed them how to attach them to the chain. The last step was to make a charm pendant, which we did by putting beads on an end pin (easy!), attaching them to varying lengths of chain, putting those on a jump ring, and then attaching the jump ring to a necklace. Then ta da! A necklace! They put their closures on the same way they put on their bead links. It was so fun!
This is a lovely little sister (in-law) of one of my friends. She wanted to model her necklace for my blog. I had a hard time getting a good photo with the available lighting, but she is still cute. She made a necklace with mostly purple glass beads with foil embellishment and some larger turquoise seed beads. Her charm pendant had matching beads plus a larger purple bead (which can be seen in
this pair of earrings).
The necklace on the left was designed by my closest friend of the bunch. I love the design so much that I want to copy it :) It's so classy and lovely. However, I already had one in mind that has some similar things going on so I will refrain.
On the right is a necklace that is very different. I like it a whole stinking lot too. It is sparkly with a blue and silver color scheme. It looked nice and wintery to me. All in all, I was impressed with their creativity!
