Mother's Day Gift

It's finals. I have this test to study for, that project to turn in, that laboratory report to finalize, and ah! It's Mother's Day in a bit. I thought I was going to go bonkers because my beading projects usually are very time-consuming and require a lot of teeny tiny beads to complete.
So I turned to my arch-enemy: wirework.
I like wirework, don't get me wrong. The issue here was, we didn't work together. My bead stash has skeletons-that is, skeletons of copper wire that were involved in a project gone wrong. Lots, and lots of skeletons are in that box, and with that crazy thought in mind I decided to attempt another wirework piece.
My inspiration was from the fusionbeads.com website, and I quickly began making a bracelet I thought my mom would like in colors that went with the dress she got at Title Nine that is essentially her most favorite thing in the closet. The project turned out like this:

It didn't take that long, about 45 minutes tops, but I redid it because I added too many wrapped loops to the project and the bracelet became too big. So almost 2 hours total.

I did well on finals too so I feel pretty accomplished.

Also, right now I have jeweler's block. I have 4mm fire-polished rounds, and a 5-color 11/0 seed bead mix. Tried several different things and failed. If it goes well in the end I will post and publish.

The next post will be concerning embellished woven beads and how to make a spiral rope look good. See you guys soon!