This nursery rhyme inspired a necklace recently. Actually, this rather fabulous bead inspired the necklace.
It’s a pewter bead by Green Girl Studios, which has a frog on each of the four faces, alternating up and down. It was sent to me as part of a Bead Swap-USA exchange by Diana Keever, along with a bead soup containing all sorts of goodies to match, including a green raku ceramic donut by Olivia Dowdy Brown. As I played with the beads, the green donut, which has a lovely swirly texture, became a pond, and the frog bead jumped out of it. Some clear and white crystal beads dangling from the frog became raindrops. And I knotted a selection of the lovely soup beads—jade, dyed agate, carnelian, malachite, jasper, Czech glass—above the donut. The clasp is a dragonfly, because dragonflies and ponds and frogs all hang out together, right?
Did I tell you I love frogs?
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Great design! It’s so fun and summery! I loves me some frogs too, definitely need to get one of those gorgeous beads!
Angi Mullis dj2isme@aol.com
This is really lovely. I like the story too!
Are you sure it is winter where you ate??? Because you are creating such lovely, summery jewelry lately! This is so sweet!
***winter where you Are?..not Ate….