Autumn Necklace

We are still playing with braiding! This was originally going to be a simple multi-strand necklace, but we couldn’t help ourselves 😉 We wanted to see how the braid would turn out with some little 15/0 seed beads between each gemstone. We kinda like it!

Why We Love This Tutorial: We love a big, chunky statement necklace! And who can go past these gorgeous Autumn themed gemstones. We’ve used some of our newly arrived in gemstone beads beads for this necklace – Green Jade, Tiger Eye, Orange Garnet, Yellow Agate… plus one of the amazing large Ammonite fossil pendants. But…

Why We Love This Tutorial: This tutorial is once again using our new 0.65mm waxed cord. The slightly finer cord means threading on beads in macrame is not-so-much of an issue like it is with the 0.8mm cord. This is a wrap bracelet, but to be honest I was not sure if it was going…

Another flat-lay for you! No time for actual beading, so we’ve just thrown together some of the gorgeous new products (including the new crystals!) to get your creative juices flowing!!

This was a project we did as a class back in February. We have used the fancy crystal drops, as well as some Carnelian and Citrine gemstone beads.

Why We Love This Tutorial: We really wanted these gorgeous Biwa pearls to speak for themselves, so they are very much the focus of this necklace design. But we couldn’t resist adding a little bit of bling in, with the sparkly little 4mm diamante rondelle spacers and the diamante magnetic clasp. This necklace is approximately…