Beaded Christmas Tree Dangles

Today has been a bit hard going, I have just returned to work after 5 weeks leave, as you can imagine I wasn't bursting with excitement but all in all it has been a good day. It can get very hectic but today was just steady. Got on with my challenge projects and this is what I came up with using the beads from my necklace and some from my stash, see yesterdays picture. I wanted to have a go at doing these as I have seen so many beautiful examples on Pinterest. I have only used a fraction of the beads, I could probably make about another 10. The dangle is in two parts, the top part is on heavy gauge beading wire, there is a little extra bit added at the bottom just using ordinary beading pins. Why two parts, I don't really know, this seems to be the format that most of the examples I have seen have taken so I thought why buck tradition.  The two separate parts do mean that the dangle has extra movement. I really just chose the beads at random, the only thing I controlled was that each dangle had to have at least one bead from the original necklace as using these was the whole point, and then I just mixed them all up. I am rather pleased with the end result, there are 6 dangles all measuring around 7 inches so they will make a nice addition to pretty Christmas tree.

I would change a couple of things about how I put them together and I have learned the hard way that getting the beads to stay in place can be difficult and if you decide to use glue as I did then be prepared to get messy.