There's no bones about it...

Most of the time, necessity requires that we mainly make what is needed to fill orders.  The reality of our need to earn an income to educate our children, pay for food, our health costs, and in some cases rent or a contribution to people we are staying with, means we do not often have the luxury of making items for fun.  Or of exploring new techniques and ideas. We really love it when we can though!Last year, we learnt about faux techniques and made ivory, turquoise, coral and amber look beads.  Some of these are selling as loose beads at Kazuri to our delight!  Check them our here and here.  We LOVED the ivory and bone beads though and Sita, especially, loved the necklaces we made using them.  We had a lot of fun thinking about what we could use to texture our beads and came up with some really creative things.  We also loved the effect we got when we sanded away the acrylic paint which we used in a couple of colours.  We used our own bone talismans to guide is in colour selection.Over the next three days, we are putting four of our faux bone necklaces on the etsy shop. See the first one here. These were pieces where we could particularly express our individual ideas and designs and we hope they are snapped up so we can spend time making similar ones!  Wearing them for the photos, Sita said she felt strong. We hope that this is the same for the people who buy them.