Warmly Welcomed Weekend

 Stamped pendant- Swoondimples

Pewter Owl bead- Green Girl Studios

Ceramic ring- Round Rabbit Extra

Small amber lampwork headpins- Gardanne Beads

Pewter owl signature tag- Mamacita Beadworks

It's probably not fair to show this necklace to you, since it sold so quickly yesterday. My cousin Carey snatched up as soon as she saw it on Facebook. I'm not sure if you knew that I used Facebook so much but when I list new items I usually upload the pictures to FB FIRST before I put them on Etsy. You can request my friendship (just tell me who you are!) at my Facebook page.

I love how this necklace turned out. It had originally started out as a lariat style necklace. I was going to have the long bar pendant wire wrapped below the owl bead, at one end of chain. And the ceramic ring at the other end of the long chain. Then the Pendant would slip down through the ceramic ring and the necklace would be all lariat-fied. But I have trouble with this style. The weight of the pendant compared to the weight of the ceramic ring, made it not lay right. It was all wonky. SO after playing around with long enough, I got created and decided horizontal was the way to go.  

I got really brave and drilled my own hole into the end of the bar pendant with my bead reamer. THAT was scary! I had done that once before with one of Humblebeads' Dogwood flower pendants and the darn thing broke because I drilled the hole too close to the edge! I was so heart-broken. I drilled the Heather Wynn pendant slooooowly and prayed the whole time.   In the end it worked out and I think this piece rocks. The chain in my favorite too. I got it at Limabeads.com. And used one of my new little owl signature tags. I placed it a little off center, cuz, you know, that's how I roll.

It was so funny, my sister and I were up in the studio last night and told her the story of Jade Scott and her complete and outrageous following, and the updates. (Which by the way, she had one last week and I had all intentions of skipping it but ended up obsessively purchasing about 18 pendants...i dont even KNOW how that happened. It's like something comes over me and it's about the competitiveness of being able to snag them!) And anyway, Fran says "Lor, it's like totally not even about you designing jewelry around the beads. I think you just have a bead buying problem"

Ya? Tell me about it!!!