McBirdie`s Nest

It had to be done--the first attempt at selling one of my beaded necklaces on Ebay.  Oh, the funny feeling in the tummy.  Will the kids like me?  Will they come and see my stuff?  Will they...um...buy my necklace?  Yeah, the metaphor falls apart eventually, but it is very similar in feeling to that first day of school.

 

Apparently, people do this all the time, but I have to say, it felt strange trying to come up with the price to start bidding at.  I know how much the components were, of course, and how long it took me to work on, but...I dont know, even though he is my least favourite necklace (I chose him to sell because I made two of a similar style, so I won't miss him and he isn't the one I fell in love with) I still hate to think of someone thinking he's cheap.  He's not cheap!  He's just wee.  Poor guy.

 

You can see the sale at the following link:

 

 

 

I went on some sort of beading binge yesterday--I sat down with the intention of making one delicate pink illusion necklace for a friend who is leaving the country and the next thing I know, I've made seven necklaces and I am actually walking hunched over from the crick in my neck from curling over the seed bead plate.  When you add in the limp I have from knocking my knee out of whack the other day, it was surely my most attractive moment.  I was like some gloriously bejewelled Quasimodo.

 

The thumbnails below will give you a larger-sized slideshow, but if you click through to my Flickr page proper here, you'll see the descriptions that go with each image.  Just if you're curious about why or how I made each one.

 

 

I just got back from a trip that included a stop at the bookshop to pick up a manual for more advanced beading and wire weaving, so I think we may fully be in the midst of jewellery making madness.