Whimsy for the Girl

Here's a quick bracelet I made for my toddler during naptime.

It's fairly simple, just some beads and jelly bean buttons I picked up in Japan... and strung on memory wire. The girl loves to play with my glass bead memory wire bracelets. Since she's two years old, she more or less breaks any of the larger glass beads.

So, this one has plastic bugle beads, silver spacers, Czech fire polished glass, and plastic buttons. It took me a while to figure out a pattern that didn't put the jelly beans all bunched together.



The other reason I like memory wire for making play jewelry is because it's easy for little ones to dress themselves- no clasps to worry about. Not to mention that a quality memory wire doesn't lend itself to breaking very easily and since you can't make one out of sterling silver the wire itself is relatively inexpensive.



Here's a shot of the bracelet on my very accommodating model.

:)

Cute enough to eat!