Pearl and Brass Sparrow Double necklace

If you have Filipino family, you know that there are always extra people either living with you or traveling with you for the holidays.  The reason I explain is because even though I'm not Filipino,  my sister in law is.  On occasion, she catches me off guard with the assumption that her relatives are my relatives.  She is bringing her little sister to my parents' house for Christmas, and based on previous experience, I know the expectation is that the sister will also have something to open for Christmas.

 If you haven't noticed from my previous blogs, well, my budget for presents was pretty tight and I've more or less blown it already so I'm making gifts.

Brass is less expensive than silver, but that's not why I picked it for this particular piece.  These brass swallows are showing up all over the place right now... it's a really popular motif with the younger crowd.  You could, I guess, have a brass focal piece and use sterling chain, but I hate to mix metals and then add pearls and crystal in different colors.  I wanted a double strand look, and didn't want too many competing elements.

Of course, that being said, I think it needs a silk ribbon or something soft next to the pearls.  Time to dig through the stash and see what I can come up with.

Here's a shot for scale, so  you can see the length.