BARN BURD DESIGNS ~ BY KATHERINE T~ BEADS~JEWELRY~ART

Chunky And Late!

One day late but hey, I was busy! 

So what did I learn abut chunky jewelry. Well for someone who doesn't always wear chunky jewelry it can be a little more of a challenge. But I'm an artist right? Should be no problem, right? Well of course I can make simple things a problem. Lately I tend to overthink things and with that I overwhelm my artistic flow. You can see from last month's post I had several Ideas and even had a color palette, ordered beads and materials to finish it. But NOOOO! I had to get myself frazzled and dislike everything. First I didn't like how dark it was, it's Spring! I wanted a lighter color palette. The new Pantone for 2016 color is Blush a baby pink and a baby blue. 

But over and over I got stuck with dark colors and antique brass. I love antique brass but not for Spring.

I went around and around and with constant interruptions from life in general stopping or slowing me down. I finally just made something that has been in my radar for a while.

I wanted to make simpler necklaces and had found some Czech owl beads from

 Solana Kai Beads. Along with other beads in a brighter color palette that I had started collecting.

I also found a chain belt at T.J. Max to take apart for this challenge.

Soooo, consequently I have a partly chunky necklace!

Package from Lima Beads. I was going to use the arrow head that I got from my father. I really wanted to do a primitive theme. I'm still going to work on this one though.

Here's the end result chunky ring, chunky clay bead.