Boob challenge!

I posted a bit previously about the Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge being run by a couple of folks — the idea is to create something boob-related, or at least something pink, and all proceeds from all of these pink things go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.

I knew I wanted to make something for this. I wish I could knit and make a knitted boob like several people have done, but alas, yarn and I don’t get along that way. So I figured I’d pick up some pink beads and make a necklace. Not particularly exciting, I know, but it would work.

And then I got thinking. I’ve been contemplating a design with the clasp in the front anyway…

…so why not just make the entire necklace a pink ribbon?

I picked up the beads — rose quartz and lampwork glass with pink flowers — at the bead show last week, about which more later. Getting the strand to cross itself properly in front took a lot of fighting and I had to redo the clasp several times. I’m pleased with the beads, though, and I’m pleased with how the whole thing turned out.

Because of the challenge, I’ve only posted this necklace to my Etsy shop. I normally don’t do this — I post everything everywhere — but in a good cause…

Purchase this necklace, and you get a lovely symbol of breast cancer awareness (and the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research gets thirty bucks). And if this piece doesn’t appeal to you, check out this Etsy forum thread for a listing of all the other entries in this challenge — just check the last couple pages for the latest listing of those who’ve created a piece for this worthy cause.

Short Takes

I’ve appeared in another Etsy Treasury.

I’m contemplating some jewelry for a Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge run by Miss Knits, assuming I can find any pink beads.

I near froze my tuchus off camping this weekend — quite literally, as it went down to about 35F/2C overnight. Thank God for wool blankets and a warm kitten!

I’ve been going hiking a lot lately, and doing some wildcrafting when I’m not in a park. That’s the term these days for harvesting some of what’s already growing there. I have a goodly handful of rose hips I’ll be doing something with.

Been riding my bike a lot, and will be doing so again, as soon as I get my rear tire replaced. :/

Pictures and more bloggy goodness to follow I’m sure.