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Crazy Lace Agate Necklace

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I’ve been sitting on this stone for about two years now and I finally finished it. Yay! The cabochon around the stone is entirely made of beads, unlike the more traditional way of using a backing. I prefer to use only beads as I can let the back to the stone peep though.

I got this stone with my sister and mother on the way back from visiting the redwoods in California. There was this cute little bead shop that I just had to go in, and well I couldn’t just leave empty handed so I got the crazy lace agate cabochon as well as the beads to match there. It was called Angela’s Bead Art on main street in the quaint town of Weaverville CA.

 

 

Bored and Beading

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I’m spending the summer in rural West Virginia doing research at the Greenbank Radio Observatory. Aside from working there is not much else to do besides lots of beading. This necklace was something I was working on for my sister, but then it evolved into this instead. Now I’ll have to start a new one for my sister, aw shucks.

An Experiment Turned Necklace

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To make this necklace, I made a triangular tube with a cube lattice structured and embellished one side. I then threaded wire through the tube piece and twisting it so that the embellished side would acquire the spirally look as seen above. I also played with using bigger beads to finish the necklace. I so rarely play with either wire or large beads that this necklace was an experiment through out it’s creation.

It Is important to realize that some times the beads will “talk” for themselves and tell you exactly what they want done with them. Other times beads will hint at what they want to be made into and wont give you the big picture view until you see it completed. which is exactly what happened when I made this necklace. It was a set of layered experiments that at least this time, all worked.