Thursday, December 19, 2013

Settling in


As I mentioned, still lots to do until I'm fully settled into the bead room but it is slowly coming into shape.

Another thing I did this week is to buy a lot of vintage buttons on Ebay. It turned out to be a great lot! I sorted it out over a couple of days... did I already confess I love to sort things?
I strung together a bunch of 1/2" shell buttons... they are white/MOP but they look amazing stacked together:
 This is actually a horrible photo but it shows the effect... lots of earth tones.
I was thinking of trying to put a second string through the second hole and then combining them and making a thicker cord. It will take some experimenting.

There are lots of other possibilities for this lot of buttons and I've already explored getting more of these shell buttons to make more of these necklaces.... more as it happens!





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