Mermaid Necklace Sold

Wow, I haven't submitted a deviation for at least a year or two, so you can imagine how much I've made in that time.  

Mermaid is one of my favorites.  It was created as part of a bead soup challenge for a newsletter article in 2015.  It contains shells, wooden beads, glass chips, copper coins, cording, shell spikes, and seed beads of various colors that I collected over several years.  I had an idea in mind but just kept collecting goodies.

The rope is macrame with hand-cast in sand, free-trade glass beads made from recycled glass by tribe artisans in Africa. I bought them at a trunk show and couldn't wait to use them.  The clasp is an antique fat goldfish earring.  

I actually have enough materials to create another one for myself, since one of my students snatched this one up when she saw it.