I dare you, show your first ever bracelet,I've shown mine, now you show me yours!

vicky_jb wrote:I started collecting in 2007. My first bracelet was completed in 2008, I think.



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i really love this!!

emmm....  

....of course it is not a permanent one

reltan wrote:emmm....  

Reltan, I love Your snowman he has a rather uncertain look on his face!

Wow I love seeing all these, great thread yohanna  
But they all look like beautiful, cohesive bracelets, I dread to think what mine was like, I have no idea...quite excited to go and see if I can find a piccie  

Well it seems my style hasn't changed much, heavy on the silver, a mandatory grungy amber and not a lot of colour haha it looks like an old sepia photo   
Tupilak mouth, lotus, triangles and aztec were the first beads I bought myself and the rest were gifts for my first birthday after I started collecting...endless, smiling cylinder and v from my Pops, three siblings from my brother and sister (with a gift tag saying "I hope you like your new bed spring" written by my brother, I still have that too  ), neither fish nor fowl from my nephew ("because it's weird like you!"  ), turtle & three monkeys from my work friends (turtle for Pasty who my work colleagues also bought me and 3 monkeys as we were the only three females in an all male technical centre); Cactus from my DH to represent our Mexico holiday (also the bracelet and lace lock were a gift from him); Cobra because they looked just like my leg splints; Waterlily for my cousin's little girl Lili; and retired smiley I remember I caught on Macrow's, then was in hospital the next day so my Dad drove to my house to pick it up for me and delivered the parcel to my hospital bed to cheer me up  
Awww thanks for reviving the memories Yohanna   

splinty - Not only do you have some great beads, but you have some witty family members.

splinty wrote:Wow I love seeing all these, great thread yohanna  

 

I started collecting at the very end of Dec 2011 (after Christmas) and my first bracelet wasn't a full one.



Then I went completely bead crazy, also discovered artisans, and just started buying beads because I liked them with no real plan or thoughts in mind to creating my first full bracelet. This is the first full one I photographed in Jan 2012...and the photo is awful...the bracelet not much better...LOL!!

splinty wrote:

Splinty, I love your style and that brown dotty bead!  Is it an artisan bead, by chance, or TB?

Beady-Eyed wrote:

splinty wrote:

Splinty, I love your style and that brown dotty bead!  Is it an artisan bead, by chance, or TB?

  That bead is awesome. I hope you still have it.

Beady-Eyed wrote:
Splinty, I love your style and that brown dotty bead!  Is it an artisan bead, by chance, or TB?

Thank you Beady-Eyed  It's my very first TB OOAK ~ it reminded me of Aero chocolate
@ceruleanbluebird, yes I still have it and still love it  

Freki wrote:splinty - Not only do you have some great beads, but you have some witty family members.

 Love to read the stories behind the design. TFS:hug: 

Design with my first kit. Still working on my photos  

I think I've finally worked out how to post a pic, hope this works.......
One of my first bracelets but I'll have to recreate THE first as I didn't take pics of it

I'm not a permanent bracelet maker and I change my bracelet as my mood takes me (I only have one foxtail and one bangle) and I think this pic is from the middle of 2011 when I had enough beads to finally fill a bracelet .

I have quite a high turnover of beads, if I fall out of love or don't wear them then they go...the only beads I still have from this picture are the azure bubbles and the big cat everything else has made way for new pretties or has fallen victim to my recent downsizing

So many amazing bracelets, and they all tell a story. Love them all because of that.

My first finished bracelet, since changed up

Frogs and snails in love were traded for other beads but I still have all the other beads, although only about half still live on this bracelet and the others have gone on to other projects.