Long Saved and Little Used

          I was given this necklace with heart-shaped links when I was about ten. I've kept it, and still like something about it, but as years went on I shied away from the rainbow of e-beads.

What do you do with a perfectly good necklace and not-so-good beads?

Switch the beads out, of course.

          Putting a bead, or a combination of beads, on a jewelry pin and making a loop for connecting happens to be one of the first more advanced beading techniques I learned from my aunt.

"Advanced" as in more complicated than stringing and knotting. ;-) Obviously I don't do much beading.

Here it is finished

          And on me. I think I might add a few links to the closure to make it longer

for my non-ten-year-old self. ;-)

I'd love to play around with this technique of wrapping wire on a pegboard.

I even bought a board when I was 14 or so, but never learned to use it well.

My question is how the wire is stiff enough to hold its shape,

but soft enough to wrap and twist.