Back in the Groove

My good friend, Joan, asked me to make a cuff bracelet for her 19-year-old daughter Jenna in black, silver and gray.  Absolutely.  Would love to.

So I started off with one of those gigantic 34 mm labradorite coin beads I had in my stash and off I went.  Beading aimlessly, not really sure what the design was going to be.  My favorite kind of beading.  Unplanned.  Spontaneous.  I think I like this type of beading because my life doesn't have a lot of room for spontaneity.  Anyway, this is what emerged:

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I needed an edge bead, and couldn't find enough size 8 in a black or silver and knew an 11 would look to whimpy, so I hunted through my beads and found this bag of cuties:

Spent some time digging through to pick out just the black beads and I'm ready to go. 

"Just" need to put the edging on. 

That won't take any time at all.....famous last words......

Bead Happy and Often!