Decided I'd rather write a new post than work. :-) Actually, I'm trying to design a necklace for a customer –yes, I'm talkin' about you, Kay– and thought it would make a great post. First thing was a sketch she made; she thinks it's awful, I thought pretty good.

She wanted a combination of silver and gold so here are the first two flowers I came up with; gold flowers with silver bead centers. At this point I just wanted to see if she likes the flowers, had no idea how I was going to make it work.

Made flowers with different centers, different gauge wires, and different sizes. Still just loose pieces, and it's a good thing each one was supposed to be different! I was looking for a center for the first silver flower when I glanced into my findings drawer and saw the large earring backs that looked like flowers. An Aha! moment....

While linking it all together, I couldn't quite get it to hang together when I decided to use couple of coiled bead caps that I had made for a different project quite awhile ago (never throw out pieces just because they don't work where they were intended). Still quite a bit of work to do, but I'm liking it. Hope she does, too. Will post the completed necklace after she sees it. It's only fair that she be the first to see it, as it was her sketch that started the whole thing.