CBB's Bead Challenge

Beautiful creations Blusybeads and Vonnewe   

I would wear both, Blusy, and I especially love the second one - I guess I am already half in autumn mode

And Vonnewe, you do not need the smily with the bat hitting itself, you needed this challenge

I am still wearing mine, btw, and love it to pieces

BusyBeads wrote:These are all amazing x  I love all the new bracelets that people have made up with their hidden beads x  My beads have to stay hidden for now as I still need to find the right partners for them and I need more silvers.  I'm hoping I will find a few new treasures on Friday  

Noooo! You need to throw something together! Even if it is a mini combo! Don't let what you think you need hinder you from something really nice and spontaneous.   

ceruleanbluebird wrote:

BusyBeads wrote:These are all amazing x  I love all the new bracelets that people have made up with their hidden beads x  My beads have to stay hidden for now as I still need to find the right partners for them and I need more silvers.  I'm hoping I will find a few new treasures on Friday  

Noooo!  You need to throw something together!  Even if it is a mini combo!  Don't let what you think you need hinder you from something really nice and spontaneous.    

  !! I look at this not to create "perfect" combinations, but more to start thinking of how to use my less-used beads in other ways.

Finally got inspired and had some free time to play with my less used collection.  So here they are:


And here is my attempt.  I tried to combine colors I don't usually and just for CBB I included those Jasper's.
 

Ok, now I need to explain that I consider bead 2 the ugliest bead I own.  It came in a trio with something I had to have and has lived in the bead box except for the few times I have photographed it in an attempt to sell or swap it.  I actually might be able to wear it out of the house in this combo.  If anyone has any other ideas for it, let me know...I really don't do pink though, so can't just put it with other pink beads.

kyhalfpt wrote:And here is my attempt.  I tried to combine colors I don't usually and just for CBB I included those Jasper's.

  

Here's a crazy thought: Pink and tan go together. If you have a bangle, I would take the tan PJ, your ugly pink bead, a navy or dark-ish blue bead, and your orange steel. Throw in a statement silver and you may have a not so ugly pink bead combo. I would place the PJ on the far right on the bangle to anchor the design.   

ceruleanbluebird wrote:

kyhalfpt wrote:And here is my attempt.  I tried to combine colors I don't usually and just for CBB I included those Jasper's.

   

Here's a crazy thought:  Pink and tan go together.  If you have a bangle, I would take the tan PJ, your ugly pink bead, a navy or dark-ish blue bead, and your orange steel.  Throw in a statement silver and you may have a not so ugly pink bead combo.  I would place the PJ on the far right on the bangle to anchor the design.    

As requested:

Still not sure I can wear it, but it is a good idea....

vonnewe, yours is so romantic and the gold!
kyhalpt, love the textures and the earthy woody feel esp the first!
bluesy, those pinks and yellows!! (and OOAKS!!)

still kinda a one hit wonder... (must have the fall release on the brain and it's been rainy here...)

plumbun wrote:

Mini-combos together - Wonderful   

Kyhalfpt, those are both very beautiful. I especially like the one with the red dangle There is a touch of autumn in there but with the pink and yellow hues it is more like an indian summer one

And Plumbun, autumn has been a lot already on my mind (and this in 36 degrees celsius humidly hot high summer weather - probably my wish for a cool autumn breeze ). Especially the first one does not only speak to me, it quite loudly shouts „Me, me, me!“

Some great looking combinations. Bluesybeads love the beads in your second bracelet.

Another one of my neglected beads has found a home, and this time in a semi-permanent bracelet!   

The python between the two tupilaks has been relegated to the bead box for far too long, when there was a perfectly good bracelet for it to sit on. I just needed to wake up and see it!

Totally beautiful - I am glad that you woke up