I have decided to set myself the challenge of coming up with a series of beaded beads, to be published in Bead magazine.

Ideally ones which can be thread onto my Troll chain as I really liked the ones I made recently which did this.

I have spent the past few nights deciding exactly what I wanted to make and tonight decided to see if it would work.

Of course it didn't.

So I tried my next idea.

Still no go.

I was sitting there watching TV and being too lazy to go and root out the different sized beads I thought I might need for the first project when I began to play with some of the beads I had there to hand.

A few minutes later these had begun to take shape and I was delighted.

A bit of experimentation and swapping of bead numbers etc. and I had them perfected.

They are really quick to make with a few little tricks and twists along the way and not only do they fit onto my chain but they slot together really nicely.

I can see me becoming addicted to these very quickly!