Mother's Day Necklace

I was trying to decide what to get for my mother for Mother's Day, and because I do not have alot of money, I decided to make her something. I looked through the beads I have, and choose one of the new heart shaped beads that I had gotten when I went to get Jewelry making supplies last week. I also choose some blue and white seed beads, and some beads a little bit bigger that had blue and off white colors. So I made the'charm' part that I hung the glass heart shaped bead, then started with the seed beads in a blue and white pattern alternating with the slightly larger beads and increasing the number of seed beads as I added more beads to the necklace. I worked from both ends of necklace, with the heart charm in the middle, making it symmetrical. of course at one point added my 'flaw' seed bead. Then I used crimp beads and toggle clasp to finish the necklace, with a crimp bead cover as well. If you like this and want one like it email me at skayc1@yahoo.com, and I will make one for you. I am not at this time posting this on Etsy, unless someone wants me to.

Having fun using the bead loom!

It had been over a year since I used a loom to make a bracelet, I suppose I stopped for two reasons, well three anyhow; my loom that I had somehow broke, I was very busy with school and romance, and I was having trouble with my eyesight in that I had a blurry spot. The blurry spot was caused by diabetic retinopathy (sorry can't spell) and while it hasn't gone away, it is less noticable most days..in other words I've gotten used to it. School is winding down, I wont be graduating just yet, although the two classes I need to graduate are only offerred in the spring semester so I have to wait. As for the loom, well I bought another one when I went to shopping for some Jewelry making supplies. While I was shopping, I just had to look at the beads! I found this seed bead color that I decided to get, as well as heart shaped toggle clasp's and even a heart shaped glass beads. The heart shaped glass bead I'll use at a later time. First thing I wanted to do was to use the loom, so I got my supplies out, chose three colors of seed beads, including the color I got from my latest shopping trip, which was sorta a purple/ lavender kind of color. the other two colors I used were pink and white. I love how the heart shaped toggle clasp look on this bracelet, I did make it a bit big for my wrist, so it will fit someone who wears an 8" bracelet size. Despite the fact that I am very tall, and a little bit overweight, I have very small wrist.

The picture to the left shows the bracelet when it was still on the loom.

.......... Email- skayc1@yahoo.com , and Etsy- http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?

listing_id=24481342 .