Yes I Can Make Necklaces

So with all the earrings I've been making for the Art Jewelry Elements year long earring challenge it seems like that is all I make.  A little shop here in town carries my jewelry and now they have purchased another shop in Lawrence Kansas, which is both exciting and frightening. The opening day will be August the 9th, so I am in a panic to make more pieces. Needless to say I have plenty of earrings to send, but not so much in the way of new necklaces and bracelets. So this week I've been sitting down at my bead table to create and wouldn't you know it, nothing comes together like I wanted. Does that happen to you?

But I did manage to make a couple necklaces, but it was not without a struggle. This first one took three days of putting together, tearing apart, etc, etc, etc.

'Leaving the Nest'
Inspired by the fact that our daughter is in North Carolina and our son is moving to Colorado soon. This necklace has a variety of beads; Olive Jade, Green glass Druks, wood beads, Wasabi Czech beads, Green Snake Skin, along with  pewter branch and Vintaj Swooping Swallow.

While our family love to travel the U.S. My twin sister travels abroad. She always brings back beads for me  and I make a necklace for her and get some amazing beads to boot.

The jade bead at the top of the pendant came from China and is what she gave me to incorporate into a necklace. The reversible pendant also includes a stone bead and a red lampwork bead. The patinated focal is from Melinda Orr and is on the convex side which is hard to see here.  The pendant was made to represent a Chinese Pagoda. It's finished off with a simple brass chain.

The Concave side

And since this piece was for my sister I really I have only made on piece for the new shop. So now I must get busy making more!