Last month I went to a Beginner’s Dangly Necklaces workshop at the Birmingham Bead Shop in the Custard Factory:
An informal and fun workshop for beginners, lasting approximately two hours, making a long dangly necklace and matching earrings or bracelet.
It was a great bargain – £16 for tea, biscuits, tuition in pretty necklace-making and all the beads and twine we needed to make them. We started off gathering a bowl full of our favourite glass beads. Then, after a short lesson from Kate in how to arrange and thread them, we got cracking with our pliers, pins and beads.
Not being crafty by nature, I found the process a little fiddly at first but soon got the hang of it and found it incredibly relaxing and therapeutic. After a bit of practice, this is the sort of activity one could get used to of a wet weekend afternoon.
The time flew by, and by the end of the two hours we all had a nice piece of jewellery to show for our efforts.
Which was just as well, because my sister-in-law’s birthday was coming up and I was out of ideas. This is what she got:
The next dangly necklace workshop is next Sunday 13th December, in great time to make some lovely Christmas presents. See the Birmingham Bead Shop website for details, or contact Kate at kate@thebirminghambeadshop.co.uk, 0121 241 1413 or text 07709491680
