Halloween just around the corner

With Halloween just around the corner, I tried to find a design for a bracelet that I would wear. I'm not normally a person that wears a lot of holiday themed jewelry and so something more subtle is what I tried to create.

The bracelet that I came up with started when I made a tiny little beaded pumpkin our of seed beads and gold plated wire. I even added a little green at the top since the parnter didn't think that it looked enough like a pumpkin yet. I think that he was right, although I can't tell him that. :)

Then I decided that I didn't want to try and weave a special chain for this because I wanted it to be very light and very simple. So I had some gold plated jump rings that I wove into a simple wire. But then that looked far too simple so I added two spacers of seed beads strung on the gold plated wire. I decided to use green and orange beads so it would almost repeat the pumpkin.

All in all, I'm really happy with how it came out. It's really light when you are wearing with it and it has my signature spacers embedded within chain. This bracelet is definetly going to be a hard one to sell, although I do hope it finds a happy home!

Thinking about the holidays

It's sort of weird to think that I am now among the retailers who push the holiday season months in advance in order to start the buyer spree that usually ensues. But here I am, in July, thinking about what Halloween items I could start making, what back to school themes I could employ and what Christmas items I might like to make.

It's messing with my head in an odd way. I usually never look more than a month ahead and now I am going to have to get ready to craft my little heart out to keep up with the Christmas rush (hopefully. Please, please let there be a rush...lol).

So what do you think? What sort of items would you like to see created? Comments are always welcome!