Fiber Fool

Well, the pearls I showed off last week in their purchased state and in the tutorial on making buttons from beads did not get used up. I had to buy a whole string of the cultured pearls when I only needed 12 for my project. It was a good thing as not all cultured pearls are created equal so some were not really button or jewelry worthy. Since I had my wire working mojo back thanks to the buttons (and I fell in love with Amanda’s coiler pliers which I still had on loan), so it seemed only right to put at least some of them to more use.

I’m not one of those people who feel nekkid if I leave the house without jewelry on, but I do enjoy wearing it from time to time. I’m also very much a sucker for vintage-like things (ask my sister) so when I stumbled upon this line of antiqued brass components I had to practice a bit of restraint :-) But I think the bronze really goes well with these pearls! I’m half tempted to go get a few more components. But since I don’t have any solid designs in mind I think I’ll just steer clear of that part of town for a bit…