Spring Time Necklace

I have had this gorgeous flower charm sitting in my box for awhile now.

Now that Spring is here I thought it would make a great Spring time necklace.

I started by picking three colors of seed beads to match the colors in the charm.

The charm is silver colored in background, with a gold color and bronze color for the flowers.

The flowers are accented with clear stones.

Pulling from those colors, I used grey/silver seed beads, brown/bronze seed beads, and yellow/gold seed beads. I strung one strand of each.

The strands are loosely braided together.

The necklace measures apx. 20" long (not including charm).

The charm is apx. 1.75" long, including the bail, and 0.5" wide.

It is a charm that is from one of the lines put out by Hirschberg Schutz & Co., Inc.

This necklace and more are available in my Etsy shop

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com

Bird Nest Brooch

There are so many pretty bird nest jewelry pieces floating around on Pinterest.

I decided to take inspiration from them.

I made four brooches for my Mother-in-law for Christmas.

She loves birds and anything dealing with Biology, she also likes brooches.

I started off each brooch by picking three beads.

I then threaded them onto 20 gauge wire.

I wrapped the wire around the beads until I got a thickness that was appealing.

I then took the wire end and threaded the pin back onto the back of the bird's nest.

I used that same end to wrap around the wire "nest" twice between each bead.

This also helped to secure the pin back.