A couple of early projects I found in the bottom of a bag this week

I was going through my beads and found these two projects I had done quite a while back. I realized I had not scanned them or shared, so here they are!

The orange bracelet is done with a peyote spiral stitch, and strung on 18 guage wire with coordinating beads. I used a snap clasp, which seems to have worked well. If I were to do this again I would have made the middle segment into two pieces and added another glass bead. Since it was a learning piece (I was learning how to do peyote spiral) I'm just pleased I got the stitch right!

The daisy bracelet was a pattern I found online years ago -- If anyone recognizes it and knows the link PLEASE let me know so I can share that info. I think this was one of my first projects I ever did (Probably why it was in the bottom of a bag!) Maybe having a bit of time away from has mellowed my thoughts on it -- When I first finished it all I could think of was - "That bead is sooo crooked!" Now, I look and think - "Hey, not too bad!"

note -- Ronit just dropped me a note and let me know the pattern is from Brenda Whitehead (http://www.bwhitehead.com/daisies.html)

glub, glub, glub...

Here's a stringing project I did at a bead party years ago. It's been languishing in closet with a lot of early stuff. I really should drag this stuff out more often. I wanted the mother of pear discs to look like bubbles. I also did a small hair clasp tassel -- This was when I had a lot more hair!

Cash Cache

Here's a small spot to stash some cash when on vacation -- always enough for an emergency taxi ride! I designed this to play with tubular peyote, ealy on when I first started. I look at it now and see a million things I would do differently. But I love it anyway. Part of learning is getting messy and making mistakes!

digging in the closet

Went in the closet and dug out some older stuff. This is pink coral and silver-grey stick pearls strung together.