Painted Moth Fiber Arts

There is a wonderful bead store in my neighborhood, and I stop in a few times a month to pick up interesting beads for making stitch markers. Occasionally I find pieces that I instead use for fast, inexpensive jewelry.

I loved these tiny enameled flowers, and the beads that look like garnet are actually made from horn. I put them on a simple silver chain to make a delicate charm bracelet. Total cost was around $6, and it took 15 minutes assemble.

The tiny clusters of pearls were a new find this weekend. I spent a long time trying to decide what colors to pair with them, and was disappointed by some pearls in colors I wanted, but which were drilled asymmetrically for stringing on a necklace. I had to pass up on my favorite, a lovely green and purple combination. I liked the powder blue tear drop pearls, and at first I was going to settle for pairing them with brighter blue round pearls, but mixed in with those I spotted a single dark teal iridescent glass bead. I scoured the other trays of beads in the store and found more of them. Perfect.
The total cost was $9 (the pearl clusters were pricey!) and they took less than 5 minutes to make.