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I made this bracelet last year for a friend.

I followed instructions for Alysse Adularia's Mossy Ruffle Bracelet in Best of Beadwork, flat&tubular herringbone stitch projects, which I adapted so I could bead as I go, instead of making each ruffle bead separately then join them later.

I chose a purple color scheme to suit my friend's taste :D

It's less fiddly to make than it looks, but you need a bit of patience. Especially since I modified the pattern a bit, so I had to wing it a bit when I was working out how to make it in one go.

I don't like making separate small elements, which the original pattern asked for. Especially for bracelets, if I can find a way to do it in one go, I will, lol.

But it does requite a little thinking about how everything will link together. I tend to wing it and see what works or not. I'm not a very organised beader, or a mathematical one at all.

I wanted to try a slightly different approach with less beading, so I stuck buggle beads to the sides on a new batch of paintings. The acrylic paint cracked on the white gouache background, it's a cool effect.

It turns out I can stick beads to the little paintings with UV resin and make them into elements. Let's make one or more experimental bracelets. xD

Heh, I kinda fumbled those top beads on the peyote rectangles, I should have used same size beads, but it's fine.

Engaging in an entirely new type of obsession xD

Little paintings on air-dry clay rectangles (about 3,5 cm x 1,5 cm, around 2 mm thick)

Then I coat them in UV resin. (the back is painted too and varnished).

Making of a gold-plated cylinder beads, glass drops, small carnelians and seed beads bracelet for my mom's birthday (she likes gold and green).

I based it on Maggie Meister's Il Giardino bracelet.

I started with the cylinder base (tubular peyote).

Then I started adding the embellishments following instructions from the model, but it didn't work out well for me.

I didn't place it in a way I liked, so I decided to undo that and do it in a way that was more practical for me. Basically, I added the "branches" seed beads first and then the drop beads and carnelians after that.

It was going well, I finished it, but my harshest critic (my sister, lol) decided that there weren't enough beads.

So after being grumpy about it for 24 hours, I added more branches, and she was right, it looked much better, dammit :b Siblings.

And now it was done, and my mom loved it, but it was too tight, even tho I followed the dimension she gave me when I asked her what length for a bracelet.

Apparently I was supposed to infer that it would need to be longer. Parents. (-_-)

Anyway. I added another clasp ring, that should do it, lol.

I had a varnish accident and had to wipe that and half-recolor all of the skulls, but it's fine. :b No sure how long it will take me to bead all that.

I was beading rather randomly on the first one. :b "There are gaps, whatever, I'll fill them later."

Skulls.

What can you do when you have fimo head cabochons you made but do not like ? (a very common problem to have, I know) You take out your exacto knife and carve some cats (? allegedly ?) and fox heads in them I guess 🤷‍♀️

The one at the top is the first one I made when I started doing this. I've kept only a few of the beaded cabochons I did after that, I mostly undid them or redid them. All the stuff I made, didn't like and undid, likely to be revisited later. Hopefully.

then I started making clay cat heads (fimo, air dry clay) and I tried to bead them too xD

I had the idea for the Great Eye a while ago but I wasn't sure how to implement it.

A rainbow of beaded faces and, uh, skulls I guess :b

Stress is making me churn these out like crazy -_- This is not a beading blog, but it sure is turning into one xD A few process pics