For the past few months, I’ve been hearing (and reading) about the trends in fashion and jewelry. To be honest, I’ve never much cared for such things. And frankly, I still don’t, but I find it interesting information. One of the major trends of this Fall season is using wood beads in all manor of jewelry. Now, I never thought I would use wood in any of my pieces, but this past weekend I went to my local bead shop. Lo and behold, they had several different shapes of wood beads. As luck “wood” have it, they also happened to be carrying several different shapes of lovely Caribbean blue Apatite beads as well. Inspiration struck, and I decided to combine the round apatite beads with two fun shapes of wood beads. One was an oblong, tapered oval shape and the other was a simple round bead. They make a wonderful combination, if I do say so myself. I’ll be getting pics up of both the necklace and earrings I’ve made in my “What’s New” section soon enough.
Another necklace I plan on making from the wood beads, cause I must use everything, is a combination of the small wood beads and faceted rondelle mandarin garnet (one of my favorites) with a nice purple mother of pearl shell pendant. (Can’t wait for that one.) So many pieces to create, so much time spending on this blog.
Oh…. and of course I still have “Green Mile” to create and “Amber-Green Delights” (another one I am creating with amber chips and chrysophrase nuggets).
Okay…. I am done now. Back to beading.
