I attended my little sisters wedding this year, and made and wore a beautiful hollow glass bead necklace from rose glass.
But before I made the rose necklace, I'd started with the aim to make a similar necklace in teal glass. It was only when I changed my mind about my outfit earlier this year, that the glass also changed, from teal to rose.
Back in the UK after the wedding, I realised there was no reason why I couldn't still make the teal necklace, and so I went about putting it together.
I had plenty of hollow beads to choose from.
I'd also been playing with some silver clay to make spacer beads. I'm sure I did a workshop on silver clay years ago, and I don't remember it being this tricky! The clay was sticky and kept sticking to the tools I was using. And it was really hard to make it smooth. But I put them all in my baby kiln anyway and they didn't come out too bad, although I did have to do some work to polish them up to a shine.
Lastly I made a clasp out of silver wire, then put the whole thing together with a pale green ribbon.
Not bad. The spacers do make it a little heavier than the rose necklace, but it's still pretty comfortable to wear.
So there you go, two necklaces for the price of one! Think I might take a break from hollow beads for a bit though.
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