Dragon Blood necklace

Decided, given the gloomy, drizzly weather outside, to toy around with necklace ideas this afternoon.  I finally got the dragon blood jasper pendant I ordered last month, and the brainstorming came to fruition.  It took about 3 hours of hand-beading (about an hour per strand), but it's done now!  I used FlexWire for added stability, dragon blood jasper 6mm rounds to go with the pendant, forest iris round and peanut seed beads, red twisted bugle beads, copper freshwater pearls, teeny tiny seed beads in two colors, and yellow-green seed beads.  Once each of the strands was done, I roped the three together over each other in a loose spiral to hold them together.  The clasp is a sunflower toggle (not shown) big enough to suit the project.

 

Name: Dragon's Blood

Price:  $40 (reason: cost of materials, time involved)

Length:  22 inches; pendant 1.75 inches wide x 1.75 inches tall