Merry Christmas!

I love the black veining in the stones which I got from a LBS in Mary Esther, FL.  The large quartz I got on eBay from BH-Store88.  Their eBay store reads a little flaky, but they have always delivered as promised and their prices are great.

The rounds are dyed coral from Artbeads.  The small glass disks I think were given to me many birthdays ago :-) Silver pumpkins from Beadazzled, and the square glass bead I used as a focal is from Michael's.

This is the part I liked the best about how it came out - the part of the necklace no one will see!  I wanted a very easy clasp as it if for my husband's grandmother, and on a whim decided to wire in some of the dyed coral beads.

My mother-in-law loves frogs, and when I saw these whimsical beads at Bead Fest Wire in April I knew I had to buy them.  I used colored wire from a SoftFlex trio and stone beads that pick up the yellow flower design on the beads.

I love finishing a multi-strand piece with bead cones, and had the same stone beads in a smaller size to finish off the cone.