Coral before and after...

Someone gave me this. 

I wish I knew who to thank for these awesome red coral beads. 

I fixed the broken necklace and used a few strands for some fun experimentation. 

I made this beauty using the elastic I use for stretch bracelets. 

I just slip it on over my head. It's easy on and easy off. My mom will like that. I think I will make more elastic necklaces. 

These are two stackable bracelets that I made also adding turquoise and German silver cube like beads. 

Another shot

I'd say this was a successful refashion. I'd like to return the fixed necklace to its owner but can't seem to remember who gave it to me! 

It's so pretty! Needs to find its way home. I'll keep asking. 

I love a good refashion!

With or Without Pearls--A Refashioned Necklace

Before I had made this necklace into a double wrap length with these beautiful pearls. 

But when I went to refashion it, I took out the pearls and made it simpler. 

Which do you prefer?? 

Pink Sapphires and Kunzite Necklace Remake

At a recent visit to the bead store I saw a strand of tiny tiny pink sapphires and these pale pink kunzite rectangles. I had to have both. I really wanted to make a long necklace of sapphires with kunzite beads evenly spaced. Like this: 

I was so happy when I completed this because it was a labor of love. But wait, when I put it on, I just didn't like the portions of the sizes of the two stones and the way the kunzite was too heavy and made everything hang weirdly. 

I moved the stones around and tried to make it work but nothing I did made this my "goto" piece. So, not letting all this wire wrapping go to waste, I turned it into two separate pieces. 

This one, I posted on Etsy and it sold pretty fast. 

The other one, I added baroque shaped salt water pearls and wear all the time. Yay. A success story! 

Ps. Photos taken in Hawaii just come out better. 

Btw, the rest of the kunzite was used to make this.