Peek-a-Boo Pearl Ring

This was another fun class. It was the March class at Heart Beads Jewelry.  It was a relatively inexpensive class as well. I picked out the blue collection of beads for myself, but my daughter really liked the pink version. I figured that since the kit was cheap enough, that I could just get both. I wanted to stay for the class, but I knew that the man was only going to be in town for a few weeks. I didn’t want to waste time while he was here attending a bead class. I usually do okay with instructions, so I asked for them. They gave me the instructions and told me to come in if I needed any help. I love this store!

I actually took the kit with me when we went to Oregon in case I had some spare time. (lol..never happens). When we got back I sat down and took a gander at the pattern and I decided that I was going to need a little help with this one. Unfortunately it was pretty close to the end of the month, so time was short. We went back down to the bead shop and asked when they could pencil me in for a class, the following day was the last day of the month. Since I had already paid for two kits, my boyfriend thought it might be fun to take the class with me.

So the next day we showed up, kits in hand to take a bead class together. I have to say, I wasn’t sure how it was going to go. We were a little competitive at first. I made a mistake on the first round and it meant I had to go back and redo it. That put him ahead, and there was plenty of teasing that came with it. I ended up over taking him though. We made it through the instructions with little help. The girl that was helping us seemed pleased that she didn’t have to color in the pattern for us.

I was very impressed with how well the man did. His ring looked very good, and he did it mostly on his own. It was a fantastic job, the fact that it was his first beading project only made it more impressive. We had to guess on the size though. It ended up being a bit to small for my daughter so he remade the whole ring. . It was very sweet when he gave it to her. I think he earned a lot of points. 🙂

Here is a side shot of the ring that I made.

This is the pink ring that he made for my daughter.

…and the side view of his ring.

We had a lot of fun. When we first talked about resizing it, I suggested we take it back down to the top of the ring. If we trimmed a thread in the  middle of the shank of the ring, we would still have enough thread to tie it off securely. Then he could re-do the shank of the ring from two different fire polish beads.

So this is what I took it back down to. It would have been a good fix and saved time. He wanted it to be perfect though, so he pulled the whole thing apart and remade it from scratch. As soon as he finished it, he started digging through my bag of kits to see which one he could make next! So the night before last, we started making a beaded bracelet. We were up way to late, but we both got them done. It was pretty simple in construction, although looking at another pattern I bought they look very similar. I hope to have that one up either tonight or tomorrow evening. I also worked on two repair jobs for his mom. I took photos of both of those projects as well. So, We’ve gotten quite a bit of beading done this weekend. I just need to get the posts up!

For now though, we are heading out to buy supplies for my son’s egg drop project. I think that is going to make for a very fun afternoon.