We visited our good friends Andy and Sandy in Seattle in August - you might remember that I made this for Sandy. Her daughter loved it too, so I made a 6 year old version to send as a thank you after we got home. During our visit, Sandy and I got a chance to spend some girl-only time shopping, and we spent some time admiring beautiful sparkly accessories and wispy, delicate scarfs...which we never get a chance to wear. Sandy also mentioned that the now required at almost all work places badge and badge lanyard made it difficult to accessorize. With that in mind, I added to the thank you package a more girly, jewelry inspired lanyard for Sandy that included a silver and a matte black chain that could be switched out depending on what Sandy was wearing. I also added a small lobster clasp to the chains so the size could be easily adjusted (Sandy is petite). Did I take a picture of this of-the-moment inspiration? No!
Earlier this week Sandy sent me a text asking for the Beads for Busy Gals web site and Etsy shop because many of her co-workers had admired her spiffy new lanyard and wanted to know where to get one. This is wonderful news, except that Sandy was wearing the second ever lanyard I had made (the one before was for my Mom).
Not to be daunted by this fact, I worked in a trip to Michaels while my Michael was at choir practice last night for more chain and large lobster clasps. They also had a lot of cool and funky charms on sale, and hey look at those cool crackled resin beads...so easily distracted...but I found what I needed (plus quite a bit more, naturally) to get started on some lanyards for my shop. The pictures are not the best, because I am lacking daylight time to take better pictures, but you'll get the idea. For whatever reason, I decided to give them all names of women that I am related to or should be related to:
Sandy - because (I hope) this resembles the one I made for her. The original design had an Eiffel Tower charm, one of the places we've visited together:
