Instead of packing, I have been busy experimenting with necklaces and so far, so good!

The one to the left is the most recent one. Silver chain and some lovely blue and white acrylic beads that I picked up on a whim at my local shiny crack dealer bead stall. I’ve got a bunch more in other colours and I’m really quite taken by them. It’s hard to describe and didn’t show up in the photo but they look fairly solid colourwise and then you get one spot that realy catches the light and looks quite pearlesque. The wire cages were also an impulse buy (hell, most of my bead haul this weekend was impulsive…) and I really like them. I’m considering matching earrings but they’ll have to wait till the Saturday market rolls around again.

This necklace was my first attempt and I really like how it turned out. It’s longer than most of my necklaces are but I’ve decided I like this length. It came about after I went rooting through the pick and mix beads (always my downfall!) and found the first heart. After some poking and sifting, I found a bunch more and the rest was history.

Plus, it’ll go lovely with my camisole, if I ever finish it. The decreases always seem to take longer than the increases but it’s slow and steady and getting there. I got bits of it done today inbeween baking steak and kidney pies for the freezer and brownies from the Green and Black’s Chocolate cookbook (aka: yet another impulse buy from the half-price bookstore of doom.). I have the baking willpower of something very…lacking in willpower.

:resolutely ignores the Brownies lurking in the kichen: