Accessorize Me

When I visited a friend in Boston last spring, we spent a few hours at Beadworks. The shop has a variety of beads, jewelry supplies, and tables in the back for immediate creation of your purchases. 

I had never made jewelry before, so my necklace was simply strung beads. It’s supposed to be inspired by Greece: white houses and blue sea. The blue is the cord, which you can’t really see here.

After I returned to Davis, I found that we have a similar shop. A Better Place to Bead also has a table and allow patrons to borrow tools for making jewelry in the store. Sadly, I have been so busy that I have not been able to go. That all changed when I was inspired by a necklace I saw on freepeople.com, so I finally dragged my butt to the bead store this weekend.

Unfortunately, they did not have the beads I wanted. Next option? Joann’s Fabric. Got my beads for much cheaper, and I even got something to fix the necklace I made in Boston. The white and blue is now much more prominent. Here’s what it looks like:

I went crazy and made four in total. Two are inspired by Free People and two are inspired by the Greek Isles. 

I have enough beads left to make a few more, but I should start working on my Journal Club presentation for lab.