The past couple of weeks have been busy ones for this bead maker, I've been working my way through jobs on the cottage and beading in the evenings and odd full days, it's been long days but this wonderful early summer weather has made things a lot easier. Each bead making session I have made one or two very large beads for a set idea I had, it's just a design which included bubbles and dots, flat dots and raised as you can see in the below pictures but there is something about them I really like. The beads are made with a hole size of 4mm with the use of leather cord in mind, the design is a little Tudor looking so the fact they could be hung upon leather appeals to me.
I was happy with the results yet I see I need more work to get them how I really want them, colours may change a lot but the lime is a reasonable starting point and one that I think works. Being so large in size means they are heavy as a set but maybe the lucky customer who obtained them will split the set and use a few at a time, ideal for beach ware perhaps.
After searching through similar sets online and taking note of the prices charged I took a gamble and listed them in my Etsy shop, www.etsy.com/shop/pebbledreams and they were sold within 20 minutes, so I'm guessing I judged the price about right and the design is not far out either.
The Ebay shop has lots of new spacer sets this week plus I'm about to list some encased silver glass orphan sets on auction, these I'm sure will be snapped up as they are so useful to jewellery makers.
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