My Strange Obsession in Bracelet Form

Well after writing about collecting random Trollbead Harlequin beads I felt really guilty about not making a bracelet with them, so one night last week I sat down to change that.

I tried to balance out the colours and arrange the beads where the largest and plumpest were towards the centre and the smaller ones towards the ends.

I went for an alternative glass and silver pattern using some of my smallest silvers, in order to use all my harlequins I needed to squeeze a total of 21 beads onto the bracelet and a 17cm bracelet usually only holds 17-19 beads.

I'm not 100% sure about my red harlequin bead as I think it stands out a little bit too much, but I was really surprised about how well the other colours have blended together, it's also cleared more than a little room in my bead box... time to buy some more beads perhaps?

What do you think I should do with my red harlequin?

Leave it in? Buy another to replace it?

Take it out and use bigger silvers? Stick it on a bangle?!

Freaky Friday ~ My Strange Obsession - Harlequins

I bought my first Harlequin unique very early on; mostly because I was trying to match some netural coloured beads I had, and the brown and white swirly pattern seemed to work!

Slowly over the years I seem to have added to this with more harlequin beads.  What's so odd about that you may be wondering?  Lots of people collect specific patterns or styles of beads...

Well the weird thing is that I rarely use them - I seem to be hoarding them for something; only I'm not sure what?

My latest harlequins were from a clearance sale, I do seem to have a random complusion if I like the colours* to pick them up as I meander along my bead buying path.

*There are a lot of fugly sorry strangely coloured harlequin beads out there that I avoid, but one person's fugly strangely coloured is another person's dream bead.

Now that there are a lot more of them I can see a harlequin bracelet happening at some point; I still don't know why I'm buying them in the first place though!

Any strange bead buying confessions you'd like to get off your chest?

Or am I the only one?!

The Tsunami of Beads continues...

The next wave of beads in my January Tsunami of Beads was a preloved silver snow bead and an unusual Harequin.

I've been after snow for a while and missed out in a recent sale to snag a new one so I positively pounced when I saw this one, relieved to finally get my mitts on one.  The Harelequin is 'almost' a glitter bead but it is so fine that under normal line of sight it takes on an olive hue with great bumpies!

It must have been the month for Harlequins as the wave that followed contained a particularly luscious example of one along with a beautiful glitter dot bead, both green of course!  The glitter dot bead was another raffle bead that I won the opportunity to buy (it was a lucky month, or unlucky if you're my poor old boiler that struggles on!)

Green Harlequin and Green Glitter Dottie beads

With 2 new Harlequins arriving it seemed like an appropriate moment to take a photo of them together with my old ones; I could have sworn I had more than 4 altogether but I think that was just wishful thinking on my part?!

Then I had the idea of taking a photo of all my white/cream based beads together, I don't have many of these compared to other styles but I did wonder how close I was to being able to do a whole bracelet of them?

All my white based beads, although technically my turtle is cream.

I'd like to say I stopped buying at this point, but I'm sure you can guess that that didn't actually happen...