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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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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Red crystal necklace

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Red is such a versatile color isn't it ? It just seems like everyone has at least one dress with red as a dominant color in it. In the same manner it seems to me that red crystal beads, or really just about any red beads always look beautiful. They match with a variety of beads and are great to use on their own or in combination with other colors.




This time I used red crystal in a very different kind of necklace when compared to the ones I have made in the past. This one has smaller beads on the top and larger beads hanging between the smaller beads. I have also used small copper and gold colored beads to add some slightly different shades to the necklace.

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Green jade and golden crystal necklace and bracelet watch set

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My mother in law has this beautiful dark bottle green sari that she wears often and I wanted to make a necklace to match the sari. After a little bit of search, I finally found some nice dark jade beads that I thought would look good  in a necklace. Since the sari which was kind of like an inspiration piece, had the shades of gold and green, I went with the same colors for the necklace.



The necklace is a very simple and elegant design, and once it was ready I decided to make a matching bracelet watch to go with it. Since my mother in law did not want anything with hooks etc, and wanted to just be able to slip on the watch I used a nice elastic stretch cord to make the bracelet and it worked out so well. Makes it real easy to slip it on and off :)

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Teardrop necklace

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Its been a while since I posted anything in this space. Sometimes I feel like taking pictures to post in this space takes more effort than actually creating the bead jewelry. In any case I hope to take much more pictures of my creations in the future and am hoping to post here more often.

In the meanwhile here is a picture of a new teardrop necklace that I recently made......




Tear drop bead are such elegant kind of beads aren't they? I use a lot of teardrops in my earrings, but this is the first time that I have used tear drop beads in a necklace. I used a couple of different shades of round beads and teardrop beads to match on color of round beads. This necklace is definitely a little dressy, would be perfect for special occasions.

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Metallic rondelle earrings

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In the past I have used a metallic beads a few times in combination with other spacers or beads in earrings. This is the first time I used all metallic rondelle crystal beads in earrings, I just used different colors and sizes and used some daisy spacers in between to add a little more interest. These earrings aren't very long, they turned out to be quite small small and dainty :)

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Purple teardrop crystal earrings

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I had a few tear drop crystal beads leftover from an earlier project. Decided to make a pair of earrings with it. Just placed one tear drop above the other and used daisy spacers between each tear drop to add some contrast. This is how it turned out.....

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Brown crystal necklace set

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Made this simple necklace with a combination of brown crystal beads, copper gold spacer beads, rhinestone spacers and a flower pendant. Made matching hoop earrings with the same combination of beads and spacers. Here is a picture of the necklace......




And here are the matching earrings for this necklace.....

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Green crystal Bead Necklace

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This is the second time I made a necklace with a combination of green and black beads. The first one was this one that I posted a few weeks ago.Unlike the earlier one in which I used natural green jade beads, this time I used green crystal beads, so the entire look of the necklace is very different. Also I used a black rhinestone pendant in this necklace. The result is this somewhat ethnic, more classic looking necklace that I think will be perfect with any kind of Indian dress

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Red crystal metal earrings

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It just seems to me that red earrings work with so many dresses/ tops, so having more than one pair of red earrings just makes sense to me. This earring with a red crystal is a very simple design.  Just one single crystal connected to a metal connector. This earring is not too dressy yet it looks very pretty and elegant. Here is the picture.....

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Red rondelle necklace with pendant

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Used a combination of red rondelle crystals in a deep red color, with contrasting spacers and a rhinestone pendant. It has a very ethnic look  and goes pretty well with any Indian dress/ saris :) I've taken a picture of it at an angle because I wanted to try and show how the beads and spacers look and a picture from the top was just not able to show how this necklace looks close up :)

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Red crystal necklace set

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This necklace is made with red crystal beads and contrasting golden color spacer beads. Matched earrings are single row of beads and golden spacer beads.

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Yellow and Red rondelle crystal chandelier earrings

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Chandelier earrings made with golden color crystal beads and contrasting red color crystal beads.

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Purple Mother of Pearl and Purple crystal earrings

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These earrings are made with purple crystal and light purple mother of pearl beads.

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Teal, yellow and golden brown crystal bracelet set

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This is the first time I attempted a two strand bracelet with the colors of teal, yellow and golden brown crystal bead. I also used large golden bead spacers to join the two strands at different points to give it this shape. The matching earrings are simple single strand with all the colors of the bracelet.

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Red crystal and peridot green necklace set

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A classic combination of bright red beads, and peridot green beads seperated by rhinestone spacers. For the first time I used a large bead for a pendant too and quite liked the effect it gave this necklace :) The matching earrings are seen in the picture below

Here's the picture of the earrings I mentioned above.....

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Yellow and Red rondelle crystal earrings

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This is a classic combination of  soft yellow crystals and red rondelle crystals that I used in this pair of earrings. Kept the design simple and basic so that the beauty of the crystals can shine through. The picture I took does not quite do justice to these earrings, they are definitely way prettier than it appears in this pic :)

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