Golden Square crystal and wood beads necklace set

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 I've had these wood beads sitting in my bead box for quite a while and though I have used them in earrings and love how light and elegant they look, have never used them in necklace before now. The other day when I was planning a necklace with some square golden beads, I realized that the wood beads would look good along with them. So I made this very light necklace set with this combination.



I have also added some tiny golden rondelle beads beside the square beads. The design is very simple and the necklace is very light and comfortable. It looks good with any kind of casual top or salwar kameez set.

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Multicolored crystal and carnelian beads necklace

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Quite a while ago, I made a multi colored two strand necklace that I somehow never got around to posting in this space. In that necklace I used a combination of cool blues, white, lavender and other shades in the blue family of colors for the necklace. Since then I haven't attempted any other multi colored necklaces. Finally last week I made this set with multicolored crystal beads. I used a combination of light lemon yellow crystal beads, golden brown beads, olive green beads and red crystal beads.  I also added some carnelian rice beads to the design. 



This is a very simple design, but it turned out well and looks very elegant.  The colors in this necklace reminded me of the hues of autumn :) This set is good to dress up anything from a casual or dressy top to a saree or any other Indian dress. Since it has a lot of colors it is easy to match this with so many dresses too.

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Multicolored Black Crystal Necklace Set

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As I mentioned in my last post, recently I got a chance to make quite a few pieces of jewelry. This is one of the necklaces I made. This one is made with a multi colored black crystal, in the sense the crystal is not just black, it has different hues of pink and brown and other colors in it.



I am not sure the pictures shows the color of the crystal precisely but I really like these beads a lot. They are so pretty and these are the kind of beads that work with any color combination, so they are very versatile as well. In this necklace I used silver spacers to contrast with the black, but kept the design simple because the beads are so pretty as is, they do not need too much spacers and stuff to enhance them. This necklace is a nice way to dress up any casual top, tunic, salwar or even a saree. :)

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Sandstone Necklace

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Finally after quite a break from beading, I got a chance to start and finish a few necklaces recently. I have had some sandstone beads sitting in my bead box for quite a while now and I decided to make something with them. This necklace with both small and large sandstone beads is the result......



There is something about the sandstone that I feel works very well with ethnic clothes. And in this necklace with the combination of sandstone and golden beads, it definitely works well for all kinds of Indian dresses/ sarees.

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Blue metallic and teardrop beads necklace set

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Sorry folks it's been a while since I posted anything in this space. It isn't that I am not making anything, it just happens that for my jewelry I am not good with taking pictures yet. Surprising isn't it? especially considering the fact that because of my other blog I almost always keep my camera handy.  Yet when it comes to taking pictures of my jewelry,  I somehow do not end up taking as many pictures as I should. Anyway I am working on taking much more pictures of my creations these days and hope to post here often. Here is a set I made recently....



I had some metallic blue beads that were sitting in my bead box for a while now and I wanted to use it in a necklace. Finally when I got some natural stone teardrop beads recently I thought of using both of these together in a necklace. I also added some red crystal beads for some contrast and used tiny gold beads and daisy spacers between each beads. Here is another picture of this necklace....

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Red Teardrop earrings

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It's been a long while since I have been active in this space. I know, I know, I have already mentioned this in the past. It's just that I haven't had a chance to take any pictures of any of my recent work and hence this lull in blogging :-(  



Anyway this week I wanted to work with these red teardrop beads to make earrings and did not want to use any of the usual spacers and other beads in combination with it. So I decided to try something different with wire, I just shaped the wire into a fancy "S" shape and used that in place of a spacer. I loved how it turned out and this has given me lots of new ideas for other kinds of earrings :)

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Green Crystal Necklace Set

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After a lull when I hardly did any beading/ jewelry, finally this past week I got a chance to make something again. This time I made a simple crystal necklace set. I have been wanting to try this idea for a while now and I specifically purchased beads with this project in mind.



Its a very simple design really, just beads from a smaller size to a larger size, with some spacers in between. I followed the same theme for the earrings too, with one bead of each size with the largest bead at the bottom. I loved how it turned out, I am not sure the picture does this necklace justice, will try to get a better picture in the future :)

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Multicolored Beaded Hoop Earrings

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Been a while since I posted anything in this space. Not because I haven't been making anything, but because I haven't really gotten a chance to take pictures of my recent work. My bad, I know :) I am keeping my fingers crossed hoping I get more time to take pictures and post in this space in the future. :)




In the meanwhile here is a multi colored beaded hoop earrings that I made on an impulse recently. I thought it would be a cool way to combine a few colors and make the earrings a little more versatile so that it can work with one colored dress:) I've used fuschia, orange red, deep red and green beads and I loved how the colors all came together in this earring :)

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