The Wedding Bracelet comes to life!

EVENTUALLY got the stuff from the Bead shop! Had to wait till the weekend to put it all together, but it was totally worth it... I did this without thinking much about it - in retrospect i would have taken the memory wire coil and made a mark on it with permanent ink in a straight line from the one end of the coil to the other (to mark where the loops end / begin) because it's very hard to keep it all together all the time!

First thing to do is make a small loop at the end of the coil to stop the beads. I used my girl's small computer pliers - the memory wire is relatively easy to bend.

First bead is on! I started with a loop of white seed beads, and threaded them by using the open end of the coil as a hook to pick them up - sort of made me thought of a sugar bird funneling nectar down its beak :). Yes - that is my foot holding down the bottom end of the coil - i'm sure there are appropriate tools, but i don't have patience or money enough for that!

Next came a loop of silver-lined glass beads that I picked up from the local market on Saturday after having a sudden panic attack about not having enough beads!

After that I added the cat-eye semi-opaque, semi-grey beads - these were cool to work with because they slipped down the coil by themselves, instead of me having to push them down. Again in retrospect, i discovered that, by stretching the coil apart upwards (forcing the loops further apart and more vertical), even the smaller beads slipped down effortlessly :)

All ready for the aisle!