Earrings, bracelets, necklaces ... I love to make them all. Swarovski® crystal beads bring sparkling colors and visual texture to my jewelry designs. Czech Republic glass beads offer rich deep colors, with individual 2-tone Czech beads often possessing unique color shading within the clear glass of the bead. For warm colors, I like to make bracelets from the natural beauty of obsidian and jasper beads.

This is a lovely deep red Czech Republic and Swarovski® necklace. I have used this chain in several of my necklace designs. The chain link is 5mm and I ruined one of my nipper tool's edges because though gold plated the link is a hard metal. I purchased a lightweight heavy-duty chain link wire cutter at Home Depot. Wear safety glasses when cutting links as wire pieces as fly.

The overall necklace length is 32 iches plus the 1.25 inch dangle

Material list:

4mm gold plated jumprings (at clasp and at dangle area)

gold plated chain, (5mm oval shaped links)

1.75 inch of chain on both sides of the lobster clasp

1 inch of chains between each of the headpins with beads

I put closeup photos of the headpins so you see the bead patterns:

Left bead pattern (first ones from the clasp):
2.5 inch gold plated headpins
2- 4mm clear crystal AB finish Swarovski® round crystal beads
2- 6mm clear crystal AB finish Swarovski® round crystal beads
3- 6mm round deep red Czech glass beads separated
2- 2.5mm gold plated spacer beads

Right bead pattern:
2 inch gold plated headpins
2- 4mm gold color filigree spacer bead
2- 6mm gold color filigree spacer bead
2- 6mm Siam red Swarovski® bicone 5301 crystal beads
1- 8mm 2-tone dark red Czech glass beads AB finish

the dangle:
2 inch gold plated headpins
2- 4mm gold color filigree spacer bead
2- 6mm Siam red Swarovski® bicone 5301 crystal beads
1- 8mm 2-tone dark red Czech glass beads AB finish