Full Circle

When I started making jewelry, I created beaded necklaces...seed beads, Czech glass, silver daisy spacers.  My signature style was three-stranded necklaces.  They were verrrry symmetrical. 

I moved on to making bracelets and necklaces with lampwork beads.  I still have a number of pieces that I want to put up on Etsy.  And I have a ton of lampwork beads I still need to do something with. 

When I started working with bronze metal clay, I felt like I had really found my voice.  Over the past three years it has evolved little by little.  This weekend it felt like I came fill circle.  When I go to the bead store I'm still drawn by the beads and recently I picked up a few strands and they ended up in this piece.

 
And this piece.....where I mixed up the beads with chain and bronze accent pieces. 

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