Egyptian Inchie and a New-Old necklace

I hope that everyone had a great week. Last week I missed the whole work week due to weather and family appointments.  We got about 3 inches of snow and about 1/2 inch of ice and it seemed to stop the whole state!  I did have a lot of time to do bead work but ended up doing mostly design work instead.  I did work on a bracelet a bit, since later this week I will be starting a new challenge over at one of the Facebook bead groups, Beadwork Mentoring.  I can't wait for the challenge to start since I have the pattern designed and ready! 

I have this necklace that I made a few years ago from beads that were sent to me as part of a bead soup challenge, a bead soup challenge is where you have been given/bought a certain group of beads that you then have to add beads to to make something beady from.  I was given some turquoise colored glass beads, gold beads and 3 2.5' peyote tubes, some metal spacers and some 6/0 seeds.  Back then I added some beads and made a bracelet.  But I was not happy with how it came out, it felt like I did not do justice to the beads I was given.

The bead soup I was given 

The bracelet I made

 I ended up taking the bracelet apart about six months later and turning it into a 24" necklace which I never took picture of, because it also looked bad.  I know many of us hate what we make and we are our worst critics, but I really hated wearing the necklace because I just felt like I dropped the ball on the design of it. 

The other day I saw a 100" pearl necklace and it gave me such great idea. I was gonna take that necklace apart and rework it with some of my newer beads and make a 100" necklace!  From the bead soup necklace I used the 2.5" peyote tubes and the spacers.  The rest of the beads will be reused for something else very soon.  To that I added 4mm silver round beads, calsilica oval beads, along with small calsilica oval tube beads. Black 5mm cube beads, O bead, quad beads, 4mm glass beads, and diablo beads. 

The necklace turned out being 96.5" long, (I was shooting for 100, but i will take it lol) I added a magnetic clasp to help with wrapping the necklace.I really REALLY love this now, I feel like I did right by the beads.  What do you think?

wrapped 3 times

as a bracelet

 Also this week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Egyptian.  My daughter love anything Egyptian.  So I am used to seeing shows about Ancient Egypt and the pyramids.  One thing I do like about Ancient Egypt is all of the jewelry and the colors of jewelry that they achieved.  So for my inchie I decided to make an Egyptian Motif using 4 main colors of Ancient Egypt.  Red, orange, light blue and teal.  I really love these colors, don't you?

Hope you enjoy this next week.  We are supposed to be in the 50's and 60's!  Thanks also to everyone who has been flying in and leaving messages on my blog, it really means alot to me, thanks again. 

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out all the rest of the artwork from the other inchie ninjas!