I am a member of a beading group called Beading Fanatics http://groups.msn.com/BeadingFanatics . Our 500th member joined recently and we would love to have even more. All of our members are really talented and have albums full of beautiful eye candy. We have different types of jewelry swaps and our last one was called Melon-Citrus swap. You could choose to make a bracelet and earrings or necklace and earrings but it had to be made with colors such as orange, lemon, watermelon, lime etc. I swapped with Sam, our swaps coordinator and we decided to do a necklace and earrings. I made hers with lime green mother of pearl coins & donuts and fiber optic beads. My necklace and earrings came in the mail on Friday and I could hardly wait to get the box opened. The necklace is gorgeous!! It is made with glass beads, lampwork beads and chainmaille. My oldest daughter was here when I opened it and she said it was awesome and even my 9 year old granddaughter loves it! You can see pictures of both necklaces below.
I have never wanted to do chainmaille before now but I want to learn how to do that and incorporate it into some of my designs. I tried to use Bloggers slideshow so I could show you all some of my jewelry creations but could never get it to work. I am going to try using one from either PhotoBucket or PictureTrail and see if they will work here and will try to get that done this coming week. My husband is having minor surgery on Thursday in Birmingham AL which is almost 3-1/2 hours from our home just out of Thomasville AL and we are going on up there on Wednesday and spend the night in a motel so we dont have to leave home at 2:30 or 3am. I will have plenty of time to work on this after we get back home because we wont be going anywhere for a while, at least a couple of weeks.
Y'all take care!!
this is my necklace to Sam
this is Sam's necklace to me
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