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.
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This necklace is long, for wearing over turtlenecks and has no clasp as it easily slips over my head.
Sometimes I wear the dangle at the bottom of the necklace and other times I
wear the necklace with the dangle about midway on one side of the necklace. A photo below shows close up of the necklace's length of dangle.
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Green glass bead necklace with silver plated chain.
The link chains for this necklace and the dangle came from silver plated dangles such as the gold plated dangle shown below. These purchased dangles are about 1.5 inches long.
As you can see in the above photo, the top dangle is a gold plated dangle as purchased, similar to the silver ones I used for this necklace.
The lower dangle in the above photo is snipped apart for use as a link chain for a necklace or earrings. The red arrows point to the released parts of the dangle.
I have snipped off the top eyepin of the dangle thereby releasing the bell shaped bead cap (which I set aside for use within other designs).
Green arrows point out some extra snips I took off until I had a nice eyepin left that tightly holds all the dangle's link chains.
The lower short red arrow points to this tight eyepin that
remains holding all the dangle's link chains.
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Photo to the left shows a different necklace with a similar long dangle:
1. Lower dangle is a purchased dangle of link chains with the bell shaped bead cap removed off.
2. Insert the tight eyepin of the dangle's link chains into the eye of a head pin.
3. Place headpins with an eye into each glass bead, snip headpin to length and then form eyepin on other end of the headpin.
4. Connect the individual link chain of this necklace by inserting end links of the individual chain sections into the glass beads' eyepins.
Tightly close each eyepin, be careful not to smash the link chains' end links when closing the eyepins.
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This photo to the left shows two silver plated dangles as purchased and then completely snipped apart to provide the individual link chains.
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Material list for green glass bead necklace with silver plated chain:
11 - 1.5 inch long (.028' thickness) silver plated eye head pin
11- 15mm square green glass bead
1 - silver plated earring dangle of chain links for dangle of necklace
19- lengths of chain from silver plated earring dangles. Before beginning to assemble this necklace I stuck a long headpin through these chains,
letting the chains hang down from the head pin
and I checked to be sure all the chain sections were the same length. I had to snip links off a few of the chains to shorten them to be the same length.
The smallest size silver plated open jumprings that fit into the links of the chain and that you can work with (to close) for connecting the link chain part of this necklace. I usually
work with 3mm or 4mm open jump rings.
Click to view what tools were used.
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