On my beading mat

(or Maybe I should be taking Ritalin)

Erin at Treasures Found is hosting a challenge this month called The Challenge of Color. When you sign up, she mails you a palette of paint chip colors from paint manufacturers. I won't post pictures of my finished project until the big reveal on December 3, but I wanted to show my palette, which I got this week:

I requested a palette that included green because I don't work with green very often, and I have a new green shirt I would like to match. Here are the beads in my stash that fit in the palette:

There are size 10 and 11 shiny and matte Czech seed beads, vintage navy blue pressed flowers, fat Czech drop beads in dark blue iris, triangles, bone and wasabi green glass daggers, simple glass rounds, and various olive or wasabi green leaves. I just remembered that I have some really small ivory lampwork spacers that I made for another project, and they would be perfect here.

On Tuesday I finally got more 4mm garnets for the project I wrote about in my last installment of this series. I need to work on the color challenge piece during my (quiet and happily home-bound) Thanksgiving break, so I'm not sure when the garnet necklace will be finished. I decided to make a fringed necklace on the spiral chain, rather than make yet another lariat. So I have to take out about eight inches of spiral, but that's no big deal.

Oh! And I've had some good success using clear acrylic spray to seal paper for my cabs. I'll post pics when I have something interesting to show.