The next set's going to involve square green glass beads with foil in them and brown spherical glass beads with swirl markings on them. Not sure yet if I'm going to include spacer beads from the tube of Czech beads I bought to use with the bedroom window or not; both the spheres and the green ones have spacer beads on the string already.
I originally got the idea when I was looking at really fancy tiebacks in a Bed, Bath and Beyond and saw the fancy ones cost as much as or more than curtains- and then saw that Target was selling bead necklaces that didn't match my clothing, but did match my curtains, and that cost less than the tiebacks. I wound up making these instead of doing the necklace thing because I've always wanted to go into a craft store and just buy handfuls of sparkly colorful things, I admit.
Oh, craft stores, such a good place to spend money :). I went through a beading phase pre-internet and still had my leftover supplies for years. Finally gave them to my sister since she actually does crafts still.
Normally my focus in craft stores is on the yarn section, but sparkly yarn scratches even under the best of circumstances, and I like the feel and the sound of glass.
(Had a fun moment while I was doing the staaaaaaaaare thing at the shelves yesterday along with another customer- you know, where someone walks into the beads section and has to staaaaaaaaaaare for a while as they try to find one specific style of bead to match one specific strand they have in mind. A couple of young women walked up to the discount bead display nearby, where the beads the store was trying to move fastest were laid out horizontally instead of hanging on the wall, and one of them picked a few up before saying, "So... what are you supposed to do with them? Just... hang them on something?" I'm guessing she'd never been into the jewelry making section of the store before.)
In all fairness, I had been through college and was taking classes to make up for holes in my background so I could attend a master's degree program before I found out that gravy- brown gravy, the kind you use on your roast beef or chicken- was made from anything other than the contents of an envelope or jar. Heinz had a commercial with the tagline 'So close to homemade- but no lumps!', which I thought referred to gravy made by mixing water or broth with the contents of an envelope of mix. I was actively taking a food prep and hospitality management class when I found out that gravy comes from doing things with meat drippings and water or broth or wine and thickeners. So I can kinda see it just not occurring to somebody that a string of beads with no fasteners on either end was meant to be strung on a different string with other beads and then given clasps so it could be worn... I mean, it's still embarrassing, and I'm almost certain it's the kind of thing that should've been taught via children's television or preschool. But I grew up in an Italian-American household, so I should've absorbed the truth about gravy from somewhere, so I can't entirely blame the girl for not making the connection.
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Date: 2015-01-25 04:38 pm (UTC)(Had a fun moment while I was doing the staaaaaaaaare thing at the shelves yesterday along with another customer- you know, where someone walks into the beads section and has to staaaaaaaaaaare for a while as they try to find one specific style of bead to match one specific strand they have in mind. A couple of young women walked up to the discount bead display nearby, where the beads the store was trying to move fastest were laid out horizontally instead of hanging on the wall, and one of them picked a few up before saying, "So... what are you supposed to do with them? Just... hang them on something?" I'm guessing she'd never been into the jewelry making section of the store before.)
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