Inspirational shapes...

"Dark Hive Honeybee"

(Necklace)  Price: $ 60.00  SOLD

As soon as I saw the vintage,hexagonal, black Onyx beads I found in Lisa's hoard, I instantly thought of bees and hives. Pulling a number of other vintage elements together to help create the vision, I got to work. The center of the focal consists of a trio of gold circles. This is actually a length of loose chain from a belt or some such that was floating around the odds and ends box. I twisted them into a triad and held them together in form with a couple of thick crimp links and crowned it with a row of beads, central of which is a very oddly formed vintage Czech glass bead. The amber coloured bead backing the honeybee dangle is also from the same Czech glass lot. The little golden, round concertina connectors bookending the black hexagon lengths are also vintage. While this isn't a literal translation of a bee hive, it certainly is suggestive of one. I've been inordinately proud of this necklace as the ideas I had for it don't differ from the reality of it all that much. 

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Cheers,

Marianne