Happiness

It occurs to me that I haven't actually posted about beading in about 3 weeks. Part of that is because I've been busy, part of it is that I rely on natural lighting for my photos and it's the rainy season. This is a stretchy bracelet. I have to admit that I started out with stretchy bracelets because they were easy and didn't require special tools. Then, as I got into more complex patterns, the stretchy projects fell by the wayside.

Anyway, I've been trying (and failing) to capture the crackle in the crackle glass beads used in this bracelet. The beads are also very subtly colored in light and cheery shades of yellow and lavender. Unlike the earlier versions I made of these bracelets using glass chips, these are rounder and smoother, and feel more like sparkly and cool glass pebbles. Since they are heavier, I strung them twice. You can see this with the double (parallel) seed bead spacers... if only I could capture that detail with the lousy lighting conditions. Oh well!