Aladdin

At last, I am showing a few of my very own handmade glass beads!! Simon (my OH....oooh look at me I know some blog speak now, taken me a longtime to work it out though!!) bought me a bead making kit for Christmas and in between everything else, I have just got the hang of the basics. There is a mixture of blue and purple glass beads in here that I never intended to go in the same necklace! Also, whilst experimenting with the glass, and watching to see how two colours work together, I made some yellow and blue beads; the contrast was lovely, but I didn't plan to use them...Not until I decided to make this necklace anyway..I laid them out with the others, expecting to take them away again, but no, they look fantastic! As usual, my photography lets me down and you just don't get the colours showing as well as they could, but I hope you can see just a little bit!

Oh and for those of you who haven't yet looked at the title, would you have guessed that it was aladdin? I hope so! The purples, blues and gold and yellows are just made me think of Aladdin straight away!
Kids are back to school now, so I have set myself a goal of posting at least one blog a week and tweet at least once a day.

Thanks for looking!!