Necklaces

I forget how different home is from being at school. TV is so bad and distracting, plus since I have nothing to get up for in the morning, I am getting enough sleep not to be so damn tired, but I’m not getting anything done. I have 1000 projects to do, some necessary, like clean and unpack, some fun, like work on the damn necklaces already. I found a couple of Boxes of Beads (“Mass O Glass” from Michaels, super cheap, like $3-$5 for a good amount of assorted glass beads)

and I really want to use some of them, either alone or in combination with the wood ones I bought to try to recreate versions of this necklace I made myself a couple summers ago.

Everyone complements it every time I wear it, and I’d really like to give them as gifts to my friends, plus I could probably sell them. I have some wood beads, but they only came in a couple shapes/sizes/colors at Michaels, not as good an assortment as what I bought at the specialty bead store in Vermont that the supplies for mine came from. I also bought a bag with a few colors of hemp at Michaels, unfortunately the hemp is not as soft or nice as what I used for mine, but I figure it’ll soften as I work with it, and then when I finish, I’ll wash the necklaces. Big hemp secret: wash finished pieces vigorously with soap and water (supposedly you can run through the dishwasher or washing machine, but I never have) to soften the hemp and set the knots.