October is National Craft-Making Month!

Sometimes necklaces come together quickly but very often it's a trial and error process. So I decided to share a recent evening trying to come up with a necklace for a pendant I've had for a while. It was one of a pair on clearance and they were intended for bracelets but I decided to try and use them anyway.

I decided to run this pendant horizontally and was first trying to find beads that might match it. It was a problem because none of my beads fit the blue exactly, many of them either verging into green or aqua blue shades. ( Read more... )