Back to making jewelry

Having a blog means I need fresh content.  Not complaining, just saying. So my creativity goes in cycles, knitting, sewing, quilting. There have been years when I stopped do any of these things. During one of those periods I got into beading in a big way. Yes, my eyes were younger than, it was easier.  Of course I still have a reasonable stash of beads and supplies. These days, big funky cheap looking jewelry is all the rage and to be honest. For $20 I can pick up something adorable downtown, buying the materials for the same necklace would probably cost me $40. Case in point.  I get a lot of compliments when I wear this. So on that same trip downtown, where I found my I Love LA fabric, I found beads. Let me put it this way, the friend I was with wanted to visit the bead stores – they weren’t new to me.  I ‘thought’ I’d just be showing her around – yeah right. Of course one of the stores was having a big sale, like $2-4 for strands of nice beads.  My friend bought quite a few, me I bought some as well.  What I had in mind was knocking off this necklace.Which meant finding a focal piece and getting some chain, two things I didn’t have at home.Tools of the trade and starting the beading process.Knock off,  never looks exactly like the original – that is why it’s called a knock-off, not a copy.I like the end result very very much. Went to dinner last night with girlfriends and one immediately asked if I made this. Score! So no, I don’t see myself getting back into beading in a big way, but it sure is fun from time to time to pull out the old tools, get a few new beads and make another necklace.  Oh and cost, yeah, I think this one was closer to $30.