Friday Feature: resin bangles

I don't own any resin bangles, but obviously that needs to change in the near future because there are some awesome options out there.

Size Small Botanical Resin Bangle. Petite Contemporary Resin Bracelet. Forget Me Nots Real Flowers. Gift for Her, Gardener, Nature Lover by SpottedDogAsheville

Seashell Resin Bangle Bracelet Medium Cuff OOAK nautical summer beach eco friendly jewelry by daimblond

Heather eco resin faceted bangle by RosellaResin

Blue Bracelet, Blue Butterflies in Clear Resin Bangle, Animal Bracelet, Botanical Jewelry by sisicata

Resin Bangle - Eco Resin Jewelry - Daisy Chain Yellow Summer Bracelet - Handmade Eco Friendly Nature Jewelry by LostForestJewellry

Elegant Silver Flakes Clear Resin Bangle Bracelet - Wedding Bridal Bridesmaid Jewelry Gift by Resinholique

Blue and white button in resin bangle by madebydaisy

Which one is your favorite?

reworked to perfection

For the sale that I mentioned in my last entry, the buyer was looking at two different bangles.  She wondered how well they would coordinate because she wants to wear them together.  Instead of trying to describe it,  I took a picture.

As you can see, the greens coordinated beautifully, but the red in the Christmas bangle was a little too bright.  She wanted a different size for the Christmas bangle so when I made her version, it was easy enough to switch the bright red for darker red.  This was the result.

I would never have thought to put those two bangles together, but now they coordinate beautifully!  It got me to thinking about making more Christmas items, too.  I've been planning to make another Christmas button charm bracelet for a while.  I actually need to get going on that now...before Christmas is here.

I'm still waiting for the wire for my sea glass pendant order so I've been putting together the beads for Grace's blog giveaway earrings.  She wants bright purple and yellow (not pastel).  This was my original color palette suggestion.

She ended up deciding on the yellow with just one dark purple (I'm going with the one right next to it in this picture), which should be nice and simple.  I love these four beads together, too, so I may do something with that at some point.  Like Grace, I'm not really into pastels, but a pastel color palette could be pretty, too.  So many ideas and not enough time!

right angle bangles

This bracelet is in both Getting Started With Seed Beads by Dustin Wedekind and Mastering Beadwork by Carol Huber Cypher. Wedekind does a much better job explaining it and providing clear visuals so if you're interested in learning the technique, I highly recommend checking out his book first. Cypher does show a variation with a toggle and loop that I've used, too, but will save that for another post. Here's what I've done with the original bangle so far:

Most of you know this already, but if you don't, you will quickly learn that I love these colors:

The start of the fall weather here inspired me to make this one last week:
And then I made this one just this past weekend:

As always, I'm open to suggestions about where to go next with this pattern. :)