May Earrings

While my first and last jewelry adventures are nearly one year ago (is it a May thing?), we now live in walking distance from the bead shop. I instantly spotted the new pink beads. Some quick expert hand grips by the shop owner and I could go home with new earrings.



New jewelry always looks good with flowers (like last May).



Back home they also looked good on the new wall tattoo.



Which is waiting to become part of my bedroom wall.

More Jewelry

I have become a regular customer at the new bead shop down the road. And with the birthday of one of my mother-in-laws, a great chance to create something special. In autumn I knitted this shawl for her.



With the red-and-black-colour-combination in mind I set out to make her matching earrings.



with little pink roses



And then I thought a necklace would be nice, too.



A perfect little gift, I think.



PS: My other mother-in-law gets the recently finished Multnomah Noro. For Christmas. Or probably earlier, within the next days. There can be cool Northern German nights. But that's another story.

PS II: No, I am not married to two different men. It is my father-in-law who remarried.

Beautiful / Practical

That is what my stitch markers used to look like:



Practical. They served their purpose within their aesthetic usefulness.

A couple of weeks ago a new Bead Shop opened in Oldenburg and nearly every day I was cycling by, but the opening hours of the shop didn't coincide with my schedule. I have not really worked with beads before (not speaking of the children's kind of play with wood and plastic beads).
I had stitch markers in mind I had seen with fellow knitters and on the Internet. I found this helpful German tutorial here.

Yesterday I also found a time gap and got started.



The owner of the shop was even so nice as to lend me the tools for a day.



Ready in a couple of minutes at the end of a busy yoga day.



And sooo beautiful.
I went to bed with a happy feeling and new glittery ideas.