Pendulums

I was at the flea market a while ago, and I came upon a booth that sold gem stone pendants and the like.  The guy had some pendulum bases, which I was glad to see, since I had been meaning to make a pendulum for a little while.

Pendulums like these are used for divination.  You're supposed to hold it by the bead on the end of the chain and dangle it over your other palm, and object, or a paper or cloth with words written on it, and after asking it questions, it should swing a certain way for "yes", and another for "no".  I'm not really sure what drives it, but I think it works, because I have a couple of pendulums that I bought from before, and they work pretty well.

I chose 3 pedulum bases, made out of hematite (the shiny black one), amazonite (the green one), and sodalite (the blue one), and attached a length of chain and a bead to them, snowflake obsidian, carnelian, and white howlite respectively.

More Bookmarks to Gift

I put together a whole new batch of bookmarks that I've shipped out to my co-workers.  I really hope they like them.

I wanted to get silver ones, but Bead Rock was sold out of silver, so it was either gold or rose-gold.  Gold won out.

I made a couple in black, as I've given them to men.  The white ones are going to the ladies in Winnipeg and White Rock (B.C.), and the rest are going to the ladies in the Calgary office.

This time I used pearls for some of them, and I thought they turned out very nicely!

Egyptian Necklace

I am finally getting around to posting pictures of the Ancient Egypt-inspired necklace I was meaning to make for a very long time.

I ordered the scarab pendant from Etsy, and spent quite a while amassing turquoise, coral, and gold pieces that I thought would be perfect for the final piece. 

It took me forever to sit down and assemble it, but when I decided I wanted to be an Egyptian lady for Halloween, I knew it was time to get to work.

Here she are, all said and done:

Zodiac Keychains

I've been meaning to make a gift out of these pieces that I saw at Michaels, but I've never come up with a good idea until today.  I decided that I was going to buy some Swarovski crystals in the colour of the girls' birth months, add some silver spacers, and make some fancy keychains out of them.  I know everyone has millions of keychains, more than they know what to do with, but these are home-made and I hope that they can make some use of them. 

Here's a picture:

Bookmarks

I bought a few bookmark pieces, and added some beads to them.  The blue one is for me, since I love the blue glass stone in the middle.  The black and purple/pink ones are for my boss and his wife, and the red one is up for grabs, since I made 2 of them the same.

Graduated Shell Chips

Here are a couple of necklaces I made with some shell pieces I bought at Micheals quite a while ago.  They're pretty basic; it's the old string and macaroni technique.  I added the silver spacer beads.  I believe they had other colours, but I liked these two the most.

A present for my cousin.

I made this necklace and earring set for my cousin for her birthday.  She seemed pretty pleased with it.  I thought it came out beautifully, even if the bad lighting and bluriness in these pictures don't do it justice.  I really need to find a better way to do this!

They were done with clear, black, and smokey gray glass beads, and gunmetal-coloured findings.