Show your rehomed beads

I always take a look at the swap/sales section so I thought it would be fun to see them again in new designs. I posted one last week with purple and greens - here is another featuring three rehomed beads. Please show your rehomed beads at play

This one has my new to me chai bud on it and a stories lock, two swap Dillos and a swap cosy.

I love your bracelet!  Great idea for a thread!  Here is one of mine with a new to me faceted aurora:

one bracelet more beautiful than the other, love them all!   happy for the beads too that have come to a new life!   

   Cool idea

And beautiful bracelets these are!

This is my 9 of Pentacles so far with a rehomed labradorite I love to pieces (it has a dark greenish hue that goes so very well with the more subdued greens)

Hmmm this is a great thread, but I think I could post all of my bracelets I have so many re-homed, loved beads!

These are all really gorgeous! But Pandabee, yours really takes my breath away!

I'm not at home now, but I will think of one to post later.

stacecase wrote:Hmmm this is a great thread, but I think I could post all of my bracelets ;)I have so many re-homed, loved beads!

Like Stacecase, I could probably post all of my bracelets, but this one probably contains the most re-homed, loved beads of all, 13 in total, counting the lock:



Starting with the lock - that was a trade made just before TB re-released the chess locks, the other re-homed beads are Eske's swans, Innuit, quatre, dots, gold ladybug/bird, old style "G", snake, pyramids, pig (piggy must be top heavy because she is always mooning), zigzag, Navajo and pelisse.  Since I started collecting in 2010 and many of these were retired prior to that, the only way I could get them was to re-home them.  Some people sold or traded because they had duplicate or they wanted something else more!  This is one of my favorite bracelets and I wear almost every day, combined with a glass/silver bracelet or bangle.  The only time I do not wear many bracelets is when the weather is humid and oppressive!

Most of my rehomed beads are spread out over several bracelets, but this one is almost all rehomed beads. Only the artisan on the right had no previous owner.

I love the colours and that artisan bead is very special.

I run a beadshelter... ...most of my beads are rehomed ones..as in this pic...only the pearls, gold and silver stoppers are new ones

vonnewe wrote:I run a beadshelter...

    

beautiful combos altogether!    

the idea of running a bead-shelter is very appealing to me now!    

Beautiful combo, and your artisan beads is out of this world. The inner glow is spectacular.

strike wrote:Most of my rehomed beads are spread out over several bracelets, but this one is almost all rehomed beads. Only the artisan on the right had no previous owner.

Gorgeous bracelets....Love the idea of a bead shelter! This is one of my bracelets with re-homed agates from a fb friend and Wildthing...Wildcat from Bubbagump and blue toned Milan from Cloverbead   

I forgot...  Angel and Devil is from Brightonbelle   

I love how all these incredible jewels have been made using pre-loved beads.

These two are both older bracelets but I still adore the big Kim Miles glass beads that I re-homed from Jules a couple of years ago best of all.

Wow...love the top one BB...

Brightonbelle wrote:I love how all these incredible jewels have been made using pre-loved beads.

These two are both older bracelets but I still adore the big Kim Miles glass beads that I re-homed from Jules a couple of years ago best of all.

They look amazing   

Here is a bangle I am wearing today, all beads have come to me through swaps with the BT members except the green flower on brown - that one was purchased new. I really love wearing it.

I put this together today to try and entice Spring to come, and then realized that all five beads were rehomed, and four of the five came to me through trades!