Well, here it goes. My first post. I think I'll start with one of my favorites, a necklace I like to call "Twilight."
About a year ago I saw a necklace in a jewelry catalog that was made from crystallized rhinestones that were spaced apart on a series of ball "dog tag" style chains. It was a cute necklace, with the spaced sparkles, and I just loved the name that the jewelry company gave it, "Twilight" (I'm actually a huge fan of the Twilight books by the way). Well, I figured I could make a necklace with the same kind of basic design (spaced crystals on multiple lengths of chain), but make it a little more my own; plus I needed a necklace to match my rehearsal dinner dress for my wedding (which was royal blue).
The necklace I ended up with turned out great (in my opinion). I used small Swarovski crystal beads (in three different shades of blue) surrounded by silver spacer beads and then clear and AB (aurora borealis) Swarovski crystals on a beading wire strung with silver seed beads. The beads were strung on wires of different lengths and with different numbers of seed beads to space the crystals out.
It sparkles beautifully and it had the perfect amount of blue to accent my beautiful blue dress for my rehearsal dinner. I couldn't have pictured a better necklace to wear on that special day, maybe because if I could have pictured a better one, I would have made it instead!
Thank my brother for the awesome (and sometimes comedic) photography. He did all the photos for my wedding and rehearsal dinner, and he's actually a great photographer. Go see his Web site: www.selfridgephotography.com
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