I made a promise to myself a while back that I would make the time to create some new full bracelet combinations as I've been focusing more on bangles and leather wraps of late and ignoring my silver charm bracelets a tad.
I initially bought many of the Trollbeads Fall Collection beads in multiples. This was the first time I've done this with a new collection; a decision that was inspired not only by the collection itself, but the ease with which you can create new bangle designs when you have 2 of something.
That idea seems to have snowballed and I've also been slowly buying multiples of other beads too, finally I did get the time to focus on a bracelet, and what better place to start than with some multiples and a focal bead. This bracelet is unusual for me in that I've not included any silver beads at all, just glass and stones.
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I used Trollbeads Sunrise Blossom as the centre bead. The retired green armadillos are becoming a fast favourite of mine after having seen them in real life in a friend's collection, I've gone from 0 to 4 in quite a short space of time and couldn't resist using them all together.
The carnelian orange faceted stones toward the front are artisan and are flanked by my two Green Jaspers which actually look very different to each other. The rest of the beads are from the Fall Collection 2013, next are the Saffron Facet beads, the Masala Facets and finished off with Aqua Edge Pumpkin beads. I've still to pick up the Aqua Edge Triangle bead from that set and yes I want 2 of those also!
I love the colours in this bracelet and I think it's safe to say; I've definitely overcome my previous reluctance with orange beads!
Also there was a slightly less glamourous practical reason for this; despite pimping my bead box with 10 extra super long rods to hold more beads... it's, er, rather full again so I have a storage need to have a few more bracelets made up, nothing like an injection of storage reality to give myself a kick up the butt to make good on my promises! A'hem, let's just skip over that part for now...
I initially bought many of the Trollbeads Fall Collection beads in multiples. This was the first time I've done this with a new collection; a decision that was inspired not only by the collection itself, but the ease with which you can create new bangle designs when you have 2 of something.
That idea seems to have snowballed and I've also been slowly buying multiples of other beads too, finally I did get the time to focus on a bracelet, and what better place to start than with some multiples and a focal bead. This bracelet is unusual for me in that I've not included any silver beads at all, just glass and stones.
I used Trollbeads Sunrise Blossom as the centre bead. The retired green armadillos are becoming a fast favourite of mine after having seen them in real life in a friend's collection, I've gone from 0 to 4 in quite a short space of time and couldn't resist using them all together.
The carnelian orange faceted stones toward the front are artisan and are flanked by my two Green Jaspers which actually look very different to each other. The rest of the beads are from the Fall Collection 2013, next are the Saffron Facet beads, the Masala Facets and finished off with Aqua Edge Pumpkin beads. I've still to pick up the Aqua Edge Triangle bead from that set and yes I want 2 of those also!
I love the colours in this bracelet and I think it's safe to say; I've definitely overcome my previous reluctance with orange beads!
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