I don't like to follow the rules...

and many times I end up kicking my self for it...I wanted a Swarovski puffy heart pendant, went online and did a search for an easy and free tutorial, found THIS one,...yup,it's in french... google translated it...sort of... if you consider "first start with the first face, crossing the two son in a single pearl" a good translation. It had pictures so I was all good to give it a go. It called for 4mm crystals...I used 6mm...I probably was only supposed to use something like 50 of them...I ended up having to use 50,000 (or that's what it felt like at least) cause as I was NOT following the rules I had to keep filling in spots to try and make it look less wonky. I took many breaks, threw it across the room a few times and blurted out many fun colorful words...

Once I finished and my eyes finally uncrossed themselves I called my 5 year down and asked him what it looked like to him and he says "oooh pretty! it's a heart!" ...when I'm unsure about something that's what I do, ask the 5 year old. He's like my own personal magic 8 ball sometimes :) Will I wear it? probably...will I beg a super talented bead weaving, rule following, genius friend of mine to make me a less wonky one? you betcha!

It's only about 1 1/2 inches big but it weighs like 5 lbs...ok not really but my point is sometimes it is better to just suck it up and follow the rules...or learn to read French.

Bead Table Wednesday (BTW) was yesterday but I'm late to the party so here's my bead table today...

So off I go to get back to work. Hope you have a great day!