Spirals

We were invited to join our friends at Maria´s for a meal last Friday as it was Leslie´s birthday

We spent a lovely evening dining and chatting, especially as the evening cooled to a reasonable temperature. 

I also received 65e as a result of some of my jewelry items being sold.

Nothing like selling something to give you the incentive of making some more.

Maria is quite happy to display my board without any commission as she says it gives an added interest to the place.

I try to keep the prices reasonable, as I would rather sell the pieces, covering basic costs of materials with a little for time. You never seem to recoup all the time costs involved when hand making items, but every little helps and there is no point in having loads of beads sitting in a drawer when they could make a few pennies.

I decided to make something a little more chunky and came up with this necklace and bracelet set

Various shapes picked at random

I also made a collection of  spiral bracelets but in smaller sizes, more for childrens or smaller wrists.

Although they are made with the same basic pattern, I love the way they all look so different with the various bead combinations.

I have to think outside the box on some of the colours as they are not really ones I would wear

It certainly whiled away the hours as its been too hot to be outside (up to 39C)

Just need to put them on the display board and hope they sell.

take care

xcx