Angel Necklace.....

Hope all my xanga friends are doing well.....  Not a lot going on here, haven't even gotten my Christmas tree up!  It's been really rainy, & I haven't wanted to get the box all wet bringing it in.  It's sunny today though, so I really should bring it in NOW! 
I just finished making this Angel necklace for my Mom's birthday next week.  Need to get it off in the mail tomorrow.

The necklace is made using freshwater pearls, & swarovski crystals.  It can be worn 3 different ways.  As pictured above, without the dangle cross, or just the necklace without the angel or cross.  The Angel of course can be worn alone, or with the dangle cross, when not being used as a side clasp on the necklace. 

Closeup of Angel side clasp.....

I hope my Mom likes it! 

I'm going to be lazy & wait until tomorrow to tput away my Halloween decor.  Dd is making ziti, & we are going to watch Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaur, or whatever it is.......   

New Halloween Decor

I picked up a bunch of apothacary type jars at Goodwill, to use in my Halloween Kitchen decor.  I've only gotten two jars done, going to have to figure out what to put in the others.  Hopefully I'll have that done by next Halloween! LOL... 

Jellyfish Tentacle jar.  The tentacles are made using Hot Glue, just squiggle lines of glue on your countertop, pull them up when cool, & drop into a jar of water.  I used food coloring in mine, but if you soak the cartridge from a highlighter marker in the water, it will color the water, & also GLOW under a blacklight.  ( Doesn't that ^ picture make you want to reach in there & push the top down properly?  LOL..... )

Next I took old eyeball balls I'd gotten at the dollar store a couple of years ago, & perked them up by painting them to be more realistic.    Why didn't I do that years ago?!!?!!! 

Then tossed them into another jar filled with just clear water.... Actually there are 3 jars I put stuff in, & you can kind of see the 3rd one back behind & above the jellyfish stinger jar.  It needs some work, but at this point it just has a bunch of cheap mini skeletons stuck in it, I'm calling them goblin skeletons.  Not really sure what else to do with them, but I'm sure there has to be something I can do to make it look better!!!

Hope everyone has a Safe, & HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Hillary's Halloween Necklace....

 The dd has been too busy with school & work to put her own Halloween necklace together, so I worked on it last night.  It went together much more quickly than mine did, since I'd already figured out how to put together all the danglies when doing my own.  Hers is very similar to mine, with a couple of slight differences.....

Shrunken skull & the sparkly glass gems added, witches hat, & jack-o-lantern left off.  Hill's fits more like a choker & the sides won't really show from under her hair, so we used plain black glass beads on the one side instead of the candy looking beads.

Closeup of Hill's charms....  She says she wants tops in different coordinating colors so she can wear it everyday next week!  LOL.......

Side by side for comparison...... 

I had to custom make the connectors for both necklaces.

Finished connectors with spacer beads in place.