Beads and Wires

I’m not bogged down with ‘real’ work this week, so I am able to spend more time on beading projects. Made two pendants yesterday using Swarovski crystal and seed beads.

The one on the left is made with 4 mm Swarovski bicone crystal in smoked topaz and light smoked topaz, the right one with 5 mm Swarovski bicone crystal in pink (I think the color is called Rose or something like that….). The pendants are not only different in size, I used different stringing materials as well.

Pink Swarovski crystal pendant, 5 mm bicone crystal

I used Nymo D thread as the beading thread. This resulted in a soft, flimsy pendant, haha! It does not appear as a perfect round shape, mainly due to the soft thread being used. Thanks to the earth’s gravity, the pendant is not longer a round pendant but an oval-shaped one, haha!

Smoked topaz Swarovski crystal pendant, 4 mm bicone crystal

For this, I used fishing nylon line 0.25 mm, giving a stiff, but more rounded pendant. Somehow I think the pink crystal pendant looks better when wore on the neck, may be because it’s larger.

This pendant design is actually a design for a pair of crystal corona earrings, a free tutorial I downloaded from Beadwork website. But I figured to make only one side of the earrings and use it as a pendant.

Actually I would also like to experiment this bracelet project with round beads or pearls, so that I can have a collection of pendants to choose from when I need one, hehe. Again, I can’t do it at the moment as I’m short of those materials.