Silver adorns a wrist.

One of my co-workers brought me two necklace strands they had purchased at their favorite Ralph Lauren counter.  She wore the necklace once and decided these frost kissed silver beads would be better as a bracelet, so she came to my desk and asked if I could make a fun braclet for her.  Well, every beader worth her/his salt knows that a strand of beads waiting to become something other than it originally was makes your heart beat fast...what I call "bead porn."  Oh the choices, the shapes, the feel...the very idea that you will recreate sets your emotions racing.  Yes, bead porn is an apt description.

The two pretty frost kissed silver bead strands.  I removed the toggles and divided the beads to meet a 7" standard wrist length. 

I decided that four strands of these lovely beads would make a bold, fun piece to wear around your wrist.

Once the toggles are attached, a slight twist displays one of the ways you can wear this piece.  But something was missing for my eyes.  The original "Chaps" toggle was lost in the size of the bracelet.  And I had 6 beads left over.

The finished piece with the 6 extra beads hung from the toggles for a kicky movement at the wrist.  Yes, now this is ready for a good time on my gal pals wrist.

Such an easy and fast re-do, just goes to show you that a simple necklace can be repurposed into a fun and pretty bracelet.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend.  Sea Witch

Girlfriends, Mexi and Time

Yes!!! It's Friday and time for girlfriend fun. One of our co-workers was unfortunately let go a few months back due to the failing economy, but she is just too cool not to keep in touch with. So we are taking her for a birthday girls night out at our local Mexi haunt and we are going to stoke up on Margarita's, great food, better gossip, and just lots of fun. She loves fashion jewelry and especially long necklaces in earth/autumn tones, so I whipped this up for her last evening.

I love the copper tones mixed with dyed shell elements, some really cool looking circle thingees, and key lime and brandy colored crystals.

This is a long necklace so it can be wrapped around your neck twice for a shorter and layered length as well. I liked the way it turned out so much, I may have to make one for me.

...and speaking of ME! I have always worn wind up watches...never been a fan of those new fangled, battery operated ones. I rather enjoy the sound of a ticking watch. Now, I would like to say that this idea was all mine, but I must give credit where it is due. I was inspired by the work of "Etsy" artistians STEAMPUNK. They do marvelous things with watch parts/pieces and I thought, why not using vintage watch heads that no longer work as beads and add a working watch head and there you have a really cool bracelet watch.

Of course, my favorite thing about this is that I could re purpose nonworking vintage watches into something usable. These sweet little vintage ladies watch heads have great line, design and pretty little elements such as deco numerals, diamond chips, interesting crystals and hands, and all kinds of little flourishes. The finished bracelet also has a wonderful weight to it as well.

(I hate to throw gadgets away, you know there just had to be another life in them somewhere).

So now I'm on a re purposed vintage watch face into bracelets kick and will be making these over the weekend. So, do you just love it or what!!!

Have a wonderful, creative, joyful, and full of laughter weekend.