Bracelet

Good idea Barbie, to get things a little at a time. It sounds like fun to me! ;)
 
I've just finished off some more bracelets
I think I might keep this for myself
and one of the other photos had a visitor, since i was taking the pix just by the hive
 
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barbie biggs said:
Of course with the whole grad school thing this year, Mom dying, my sisters separation and all I've been dead broke but I was thinking I could start purchasing a few head pins and daisy's at a time until I had enough ... What do you think? I was hoping this design would give me years of possibilities.

barbie

Anybody else have any thoughts? Besides: "Learn how to take pictures for Pete's sake!":eek:
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Barbie: I think that's a wonderful idea and I would have said that myself, except it was just too much for me to say at the time.

You sound overwhelmed! From one overwhelmed PGer to another, yes, do a bit as you can. It's your special treat to you.
 
Hi Barbie,

Love your idea of bracelet convertible to a necklace! I think very doable! Also 18k chain would be perfect! Some 22k might be too soft, depends how it is worked? I think it is a wonderful project, for me, making all those little twists with the wire is relaxing!

Wemdy, that is a gorgeous bracelet! Love the rich colors! And those earrings, wow! And the precious bee loaded with pollen, just doing HER thing---------
 
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Love the honeybee! We hardly see any honeybees here anymore.

I hope they find out what is causing the colony collapse syndrome and do something about it before there are no more Italian bees in the USA.
 
Beautiful bracelets, and it would cost a bomb just on head pins in WG! :eek:

I would probably make one with a toggle clasp, with a mix of white, silver and rose tone pearls. Thanks for the inspiration :)

DK :)
 
This has been a dreadful two years for bees here, because the weather has been so wet and cool. not only no honey but have had to feed my bees as they had no stores for the winter
although clearly there is still pollen for them to find
 
Wendy:
I absolutely love the little bee. Ummm, what do you feed them?
barbie
 
they have had 2lb of sugar solution and I will give them 2lb more this week then they can snuggle down for the winter
 
Hi Wendy,

Nice work. The pieces remind me of some I have seen before---can't remember where, at the moment...

You are good to your bees! I love bees too. The ones where I live have just returned along with the frogs. We didn't have frogs for the longest time, and the bees were so few, until residential pesticides were finally banned. We had so many apples this year because of the returned bees that we didn't know what to do with them.

In good years, do you also gather the pollen? royal jelly?

Slraep
 
Wendy, the bracelets are great, but the bees!! Kind of ironic though - feed them glucose - harvest it as honey - a great process!
 
Hi Nerida, no you don't harvest the sugar, that will be their food for the winter to sustain them. The weather has been so bee-unfriendly this year that they have not been able to lay in honey to see them through the winter
 
poor bees! who would be English?? I love the UK, just know that I couldn't deal with weather like that..
 
Wendy,

Do you keep bees, or are you feeding the wild bees?

And how do you leave the sugar solution out for them? What sort of container, placed where etc.?
 
Okay bee lesson. I keep bees (the wax is used to dress silk for stringing)
yes, you boil up the sugar and simmer it for a while to make a good solution then it is put into a specific feeder. a drum about 9 inches tall with a very fine mesh in the lid. You invert that over an access to the colony and they come and feed - their tongues will fit through the mesh.
you could not feed the wild bees easily - there would be a beeish riot with every bee (honey and native and all the dying wasps fighting) - see https://secure.thorne.co.uk/popup/contactfeeders.htm
 
Thanks for the bee lesson as well as the great bracelet pics and ideas.
barbie
 
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