Yay! I was commissioned to do my first piece! Okay, so it was for my Mom, but she's paying me for it. I'm also designing one as a present for my Gran's next door neighbour. Less about that and more about the new necklace I've made.
So Mom wanted a chunky necklace that went with these old earrings of hers:
This what we came up with:
The big beads are called Tagua nuts, which both of us fell in love with as soon as we saw them. They're from a variety of palm tree (according to my supplier's website), and dyed different colours.
Because they're a natural bead, they vary in shape and sometimes have blemishes (the bark), which make them very distinctive. I used Bali spacers in between the three focal beads.
At each end of the focal beads I placed these ridged spacers, followed by ridged black glass oval beads, embossed spacer tubes, smooth black glass oval beads and so on...
Finally I used this "knotted" look toggle clasp. It's beaded onto a black leather cord.
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