craftgrrl | Necklace and Earrings! (Reply)

For her birthday, my sister wanted a peace sign necklace, with the symbol and everything made out of beads. So I deliberated about how to do it for kinda a long time, and then set to it yesterday. It came out really pretty, even though making the actual peace pendant was a pain in my ass because it was so small. I broke it, too - the wire at the top needed adjusting, but it was weak from too much adjusting already, and so when I went to move it again, *snap!* it went, and I basically had to start all over again. Arg. But its done, and I think she'll like it. She's worth it, in the long run. ^_^

Pardon my lousy photography and freckly arm...

And then, while I was on the phone with my best friend

ozianescape last night, I made a pair of earrings! They're based on a pair I made last year for a friend of his, (which you can see here!) that he bought for her as a Valentines day gift, only those were in all earth tones, and this new pair is more shades of blue. They're made with beads and tarnished silver settings from an old Rosary I got at a yardsale, shell buttons, some other older yardsale-find square glass beads (I call them bottle glass, because of the coloration), and some Czech pressed glass dagger beads in a pretty pearlescant blue, all mixed with wire spirals and some other beads. They came out really pretty.