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| My last beads: Matt Black Shanghai (far left), silver Cross bead (above), some more stoppers & finally a safety chain! |
If you've been following my Karma journey so far, you'll know that, for me, I've been quite restrained in completing my first Karma bracelet.
After my last splurge I thought I was in need of two more beads and a few more stoppers, but this ended up being two more beads, a few stoppers and a safety chain as I still had too much of a gap on my bracelet!
My final two beads were another matt black Shanghai bead and a small but highly detailed silver bead called Cross, ironically after buying this bead you could buy it in the sales for practically half price, but those are the breaks, I can't catch all the sales, as much as I might try!
The safety chain I chose fills up quite a bit of the bracelet, which was needed in my case - you can get smaller, more dainty versions if you need them.
Here it is shown half on and half off, it comes with a fair bit of rubber inset inside and it's VERY secure on the bracelet (read it needs some welly to get it on there).
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| Karma safety chain in close detail |
So that's it, my first Karma bracelet!!
I'm so pleased that I went for a reasonably thought out design before I started buying. It still needed a bit of re-jigging, as despite knowing that the Cross bead was small (0.9cm) I didn't appreciate how small it would actually look on the finished bracelet. I naively thought it would be balanced by my small skull (which is the same diameter) but Cross looks much smaller due to it's spherical shape.
I have no current plans to add or detract from this design right now. I chose alternating silver and black beads because in future I thought I could buy 3 or 6 coloured beads and swap out either half, or all of the black to mix it up - a different looking bracelet with just 3 or 6 beads, more affordable if using the beads priced at the lowest end!
Just need somewhere to keep it all! More on that later...
So I know what my verdict on Karma is; I love it! What's yours?
Love what you've done! I think you are so right in saying you need to think these things out. I didn't and started off with a necklace as thought I had enough bracelets. So I bought 'trios' (2 coloured beads plus one silver) to wear on the necklace. Soon decided I wanted a bracelet - to save money bought the black cord version. Soon discovered the stopper beads are too big to hold beads in place on this and when yuou just have a few they all bunch up under your wrist. So now I'm hoping to get a silver bracelet (wish i had in the first place) and have a bunch of mis matched beads! While i like this look with troll i find it doesnt work so well with karma. Oh well we live and learn!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like how I started with Troll! I had my path set out by what was available preloved but like to think that I did good with my starting point!
DeleteYep apart from silver cross being a bit too wee... it's turned out nice and it's a lovely stacker with Story, X and Rebeligion.
My current bead budget is being saved for Trollbeads Easter, obviously with the proviso that I want to see it in person first before I commit just in case it's too cute for me, but I think I'll like it, it's dragons, what's not to like!!
However when I have some spare cash I'd love to get a set of coloured beads and something to replace the cross with that's a bit bigger :D Good luck with your Karma journey!
Mars xx
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ReplyDeleteThose are GORGEOUS! Let me do this right. Hello, my name is LuAnn, and I am a beadaholic. :O) I haven't done a lot of work lately, but I recently rediscovered books and that takes up a lot of my time. Love the background on your blog (and NOT just because my favorite color is purple). Have a great weekend!
Hi LuAnn!
DeleteWelcome to the blog fellow purple lover, will definitely pop over and have a nosy at what you write :)
You'll find plenty of beadaholics on here, you're in very good company, slight warning though you may be encouraged and enabled to get more beads than you intended too!
Mars xx