My Pearl Cluster necklace

Yesterday I made this cluster necklace with ivory and peach pearls, interspersed with rock crystals.

Colorful Bracelet for . . . ?

Normally I like bracelets to have a single color, but today I made a multi-color bracelet with peach irregular shaped pearls, "watermelon"-colored tourmaline (pink, peach, pea green, dark green closer to black), and labradorite (blue flash which appears gray here).  Mainly I wanted to use up beads I already had around.  The clasps are not attached yet, because I need to buy some. . . .

New Bracelet Partially Done

At my first beads show a week ago, a string of labradorite beads caught my attention, as I have misplaced last summer's beloved sterling silver bracelet with labradorite cabochons purchased from a pushy merchant at a jewelry store in the outskirts of the Taj Mahal.  It had lost one of its stones however, so I stopped wearing it as often.  Below is a picture of its currently unfinished replacement.  The labradorite beads contrasts nicely against the gold.

My First Hair Flower

For my friend's bachelorette party, I made a hair pin with a cream gardenia hair flower (from Michael's) with pale amethyst, fire-polished beads wired at the center.  Today I found an old picture of my friend wearing the hair flower on her wedding day.  If/when I make another hair flower, I'll just sew the beads to the flower, but at that time I had no thread and used wire that was lying around.  

Hair Flowers

My first ever attempt at flower pins and hair flowers. . . . For a friend's bachelorette party in Vegas a while ago, I had wired together 30 flower pins for each of the girls: 10 each in magenta (below), cream (below), and fuschia (no picture).  For each day, we wore a different colored pin, though the magenta one was the most popular.  I thought it was a subtle way to signify that we were a group.  The two pink pins (below) were for the bride and maid of honor, to distinguish them from the other pink pins the rest of us were wearing.

Additionally, I made a large cream hair pin with pink fire-polished centers for my engaged friend, and she surprised me by using it on her wedding day. Recently her maid of honor also used the same hair pin for her own wedding hair. Unfortunately, I can't find a picture of the hair pin, though my old computer had a few.