A Little Sunshine

Summer is in full swing, and seems to want to prove it by giving us lots of sunshine and a nice heatwave.  I love the few really hot days we get here at the beach each summer.  They help remind me how almost perfect the temperature is the rest of the year.  Lately, we are getting sunshine in big doses and it has me thinking of yellow. 

I got out my beads several days ago, knowing I wanted to use yellow, but I had no idea what I wanted to make.  I grouped different beads together and then put them away, then got out more and just couldn't make up my mind.  It happens like that a lot.  Or I will have so many ideas for the beads I have that I need to think on it a while so I make the right choice.

I liked this combination of Yellow Jade rondelles, man-made tree resin Amber, and these vintage layered gold nugget beads in the end, but didn't know what to do with them.  I stared at them for a while....

I had a little inspiration for a long necklace, but somehow as I worked, what evolved was nothing remotely like my vision.  It's funny how your hands take over sometimes and what you create seems to be of their doing and not your own.  I took my kids to a birthday party this morning and donned a girly cotton sundress.  I was thinking about what style of necklace I felt like wearing today...a little retro maybe...but not too much.  I came home and made this during nap time. 

So it didn't turn into a long necklace, more of a chunky statement necklace.  But I liked the outcome.  I hope you do, too.