Shopping Spree woohoo!

Hello everyone. I wanted to post about my newest trip to the bead market. Oh how I love visiting the bead market! I find such pretties! I usually stock up on my non tarnish wire at the bead market. It saves me money on shipping and on the cost by quantity. Beadstuff is my favorite vendor for non tarnish silver plated wire. This trip I focused more on pendants so I could wrap some beautiful Labradorite and other rare finds. I bought a few cabochons and found some wonderful glass beads plus many other little extras :). I bought some rather inexpensive glass beads because they were on sale and very pretty. I normally don't buy the cheap items at the bead markets because in my past experience I have found the quality to be bad. I like the quality of these glass beads and really love the deal I was able to receive.
Below are some watch parts I recently ordered. I love making resin pendants with watch parts. I took the picture on my sketch book. You can obviously see a necklace I designed. (more on that later)

 Below are some of the wonderful beads I bought at the bead market. The wonderful pink and black coin beads are really beautiful and we a little expensive but they will make a dazzling bracelet.

 I love skulls so I couldn't pass up these little guys. I also found a little Buddha head. I recently dropped my favorite skull bracelet down the drain of my sink so I will make a new one with the little round skull beads. I haven't sketched out anything for the flat skull head beads below in the picture. .

 These are some charms bought from a booth. This is the third time I have shopped at this particular vendor
Her name is Acharmedcollection. It is better to look for her at the bead shows rather than on the net. I love all the charms she has available. You can decorate a lot of things with her items. She has lovely metal pieces that can be glued to books. They look so cool and make the books look vintage. You can also make many rings with her items but I choose to make more dainty earrings with most of the charms I buy from her. I have also thought about making some cool clay pendants that will include the little masks in the picture below.

 Oh I really love music so I thought I would buy these guitars and make a really cool necklaces with them.

 Ohhhhh ahhhh Labradorite is soooo beautiful. I bought these two cabochons immediately after I saw them. I also grabbed two small triangle pendants that have lovely shards of Tourmaline inside.

 Here are some crosses and such I bought on a trip to the little local bead shop in my city. The Artful Bead Store. I thought the crosses are so cute. You really can't see the wonderful purple color of the jasper crosses in this picture. Hopefully when I make some jewelry I will take better pictures of the crosses. Sometimes I get a bit lazy and just take pictures with my phone camera lol .. Well only for pictures of beads I have purchased

Ok so here is a picture below of the necklace on the sketch pad from earlier in this post. I really love this necklace and I think I will keep it for myself. :) Hee hee

Well that is all I have for now. If you have any questions just let me know. I am working on many tips for shopping at the bead market. Hopefully I will post these by the end of the week.


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