Necklace Completed

I have finished making the copy of the rose shell necklace. As I said there are a few differences, but I think the necklace still works well and looks beautiful. What do you think?

I have also made a few more things but I shall blog about those another day. Busy busy busy!

Clasp Recieved

I got my clasp today. I'm gonna go now and make a copy of that necklace.

I'll let you know when I've finished how it's all turned out.

It's late *yawn*

Well I've been working hard to get some new charms put up on the website. Lots of work involved as it means an entirely new page for the website. So for the moment it's been decided not to have the hover down menus on every page with a link to the new Charms page. We are gonna adjust the front page menu for the time being. At the weekend, when we have more time all the rest of the menus will be adjusted also. Time is against us. It's 0510 and OMG am I tired *yawn*. I don't think I can cope with much more computer related jiggery pokery this evening.

On the bead front I did not have time to collect my clasp today. I called up the bead shop, they said no probs and then we were cut off. So in theory, I'm going in to collect my clasp tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Beadshop Woes

Why is it that every time I go to the bead shop they never have what I am looking for? *sigh* It seems that whatever I am looking for is never in stock when I need it.

I sold the rose necklace (pictured) listed on my website to my mum in law. She saw it last week and fell in love with it. Last night I got a Google chat from her asking me to send it up to her. She's buying it as a present for someone. Lucky person!

I am really proud of this piece, it's probably one of my nicest necklaces yet. I have had a lot of comments from people on this necklace. So I decided to make another as soon as possible to put on the website. My mum in law transferred payment for the necklace to my account today. As soon as it was cleared I was off to the bead shop.

The original necklace had 4 round, amazonite beads. Guess what? There was only 1 left in the shop :( I had to get a pack of amazonite chips instead. They are lovely chips though. The smoothest, chunkiest chips I've ever seen. So I am hoping they will work as well as the rounds.

I couldn't find any nice, plain sterling silver toggle fasteners. However I was told they will get one in for me from the other shop tomorrow, so if I pop back then I should be able to buy one. There is hardly any sterling silver findings in that shop, and it is the only one I can go to in RL. I can get these things online, but they obviously require P&P. Which bumps the price of each component RIGHT up.

I found the shell rose for the necklace. I think I may have bought the last nice one there though. I looked through the basket and was sad to see lots of cruddy versions of the shell rose in there. The carving on the other ones was no where near as nice. I am hoping that this is a temporary measure and that they will get the nice ones back in again.

So my plans for the rest of this evening is to write descriptions for my Xmas Charms (which should be going on the website soon), make payment buttons for them, package the necklace for mum in law, paint more Xmas charms and maybe a little food - if I have time!