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.

Overall length of necklace is 36 inches    Because of the length I could have made this without a clasp and just slipped on over my head, but I always like the look of a clasp. In cool winter I enjoy wearing these style necklaces with turtleneck sweaters. Material list for this necklace is: Gold plated 2.8mm link chain cut into link lengths of 8 links. The metal of these links are tough so I use a heavier duty link nipper on them then my normal jewelry weight nippers. Plus be sure to wear safety glasses when cutting though links. Gold plated 2.5 inch flat ended head pins in each bead set. I snip the head ends off or use left over straight wire cut to 2.5 inch lengths. The clasp end of this necklace has:    a lobster style gold plated clasp    an open 4mm gold plated jumpring on each side of the clasp    three inches of gold plated 2.8mm link chains on each side of the clasp There are three bead patterns:    The bead pattern closes to the necklace's ends and the middle is:    Gold plated 2.5 inch straight wire with eyepins bend at each end through the link chain      beads are:       crystal clear AB finished Swarovski® 6mm round beads       gold plated spacer bead       emerald green Swarovski® 6mm 5301 bicone beads       slightly larger gold plated spacer bead       and the middle bead is a emerald green 10mm Czech Republic glass bead The second bead pattern are a slightly lighter color emerald green    Gold plated 2.5 inch straight wire with eyepins bend at each end through the link chain      beads are:       crystal clear AB finished Swarovski® 4mm round beads       crystal clear AB finished Swarovski® 6mm round beads       and the slightly lighter emerald green 6mm Czech Republic glass bead       I used the slightly larger gold plated spacer bead in this pattern       and the middle bead is the slightly lighter emerald green 6mm Czech Republic glass bead This is the pattern of bead that is at the lower middle end of the necklace, note that in this bead set I used 6mm Czech Republic glass bead that are the darker emerald green that match the 10mm size Czech glass bead. The third bead pattern the emerald green is same color as the darker emerald green 10mm size Czech glass bead    Gold plated 2.5 inch straight wire with eyepins bend at each end through the link chain      beads are:       crystal clear AB finished Swarovski® 4mm round beads       crystal clear AB finished Swarovski® 6mm round beads       I used the smaller of the two size gold plated spacer beads in this pattern       and the emerald green 6mm Czech Republic glass bead