another edition of why I love my customers

As promised, here are the pictures of my most recent custom order that I took at last month's craft fair.  This is another edition of why I love my customers because I never would have done leafy designs in black and white on my own.  Of course the end result was awesome.  This project completely tapped out my leaf bead collection in this color palette, but I may come back to it in the future.

This is the first time that having my photo album of sold pieces paid off.  The customer was interested in coordinating earrings and necklace to match her custom leaf bracelet.  I didn't have any on hand but I've made custom versions of both, as well as other bracelets, in the past.

She loved the custom designs and trusted my judgement to make similar versions of both in the black and white palette.

I calculated how many leaf beads I would need for all of the custom pieces before I started to ensure that I had enough in my stash.  I was positive that I would need to make at least a couple purchases, but I created this project entirely with what I had on hand.  It helped that she wanted some silver and other neutrals in the mix.

I started with the simplest pieces and worked my way up.  It was a lot easier to make this earring design the second time.  It will go even more smoothly the third time.

I got the lovely silver leaves that I used for these pieces from Shannon.  Unfortunately she doesn't have any more available, but she has some other gorgeous leaf sets here.

It was really fun making another leaf necklace.  I am not planning to list any like this, but I'm happy to make a custom one any time.  This one is just at 18".  The design can be adjusted to any length.

This customer changed her mind about six times before she settled on this set because she had her eye on several other pieces in my shop.  Hopefully she'll be back to make another purchase in the future!

I linked this on Erika's Link Party 11/7/11.