In a Jewelry Making Mood

I saw these little pea charms...they were too cute to pass by. I knew I had to make some earrings.  So that was my plan when I bought them probably two years ago.  I drug out my jewelry making box and got busy. 

I went through a "phase" two years ago of making glass beads.  I worked for about a year learning how to use the torch and I went to a local craft studio to use their equipment and their expertise as the equipment is rather pricey!  Anyway, these black beads I made myself!  I had a small plastic food container full of beads that I made, so while I was making jewelry I got them out and started putting them together!

These are not ones I made, but I thought they were pretty. I love pink and black together.

Here are more of the ones I made.  I had enough to make a full necklace...

I learned all sorts of techniques and achieved various levels of expertise (or maybe just experience) in making these.

Some things I mastered, some techniques I never could grasp....I learned how to make square beads, but my squares would have five sides or they would be rectangles.  I tried and tried to make two of a kind (any kind) for earrings and those two black beads in the second picture were as close as I got.

So these  nonmatching beads in the necklace were perfect!

I put a cool clasp leaf and twig clasp on the necklace.

Very pretty in my favorite colors and very one of a kind!