Pretty Palettes :: November Reveal

This month for the Pretty Palettes Challenge Erin Prais-Hintz chose a palette that really felt like fall to me.  The star of the palette was orange which intrigued me because I rarely work with orange in my designs.  But I am always up for a challenge.  Click here for the palette.  

This month I decided to stray a little from the chosen beads and picked up some things that reflected the warmth of this pile of pumpkins.  I fell in love with these little flower pieces when I was at Michaels and just knew that I had to use them somehow.  

I wanted to use some wire-wrapping in the piece because  I wanted to mix up some warm colored metals in the design.  I love being able to use things that I might otherwise throw away so I have bags of scraps everywhere.  I decided to take a left over piece of memory wire to make the focal.  I took about half a loop and rolled down the ends so I could connect to it.  Then I wrapped some copper wire with orange beads all along it.  When I was done I connected little dangles in between some of the wraps.  I thought it made for an interesting focal and it made me feel validated for holding on to so many of those scraps!  I connected the focal to the flowers and then linked together some gold jump rings to finish it off.

Here is my finished piece:

I also made up a quick memory wire bracelet to use some of the other beads.  I wanted to make some earrings too but this is the time of year when there are never enough hours in the day so it will have to wait for another time.       

Thanks Erin!  I love that you do this every month it is so much fun!

Check out the other designs at the Halcraft Blog and even look at some of the previous months while you are there!

Sarah O