I absolutely adore beady jewellery, and guess what I do have quite a few beady necklaces. If you look back through my reasons-to-be-cheerful posts, then you will see that #7 was also a beady necklace.
For me, coloured beads and cheerfulness go hand in hand.
I've been doing the rounds of the town's charity shops this week, and spotted this fabulous necklace in the British Heart Foundation. Its not thrifted :: the BHF does sell various new items, including a small range of interesting jewellery.
I love the fact that the beads look so much like sweets, and even though they're made of plastic I just couldn't resist it's charms. True, I much prefer glass beads, like prefering wool/cotton yarn to acrylic, but hey-ho, I made an exception for this beauty.
Yes, I think I can bring myself to wear plastic beads if they look like this, and for the charming price of £4.99, well, I am quite smitten.
At the same time as buying the necklace, I also spotted this beaded ring.
Its a fantastic construction of elastic thread and tiny beads, topped with an array of semi-precious stones.
I absolutely love it to bits.
Was it Costly?
Nah, less than two pounds.
I had to show you this lovely ring as it looks on my finger, but my goodness, when I took the photograph and saw the macro close-up of my own hand, I was totally horrified.
The beautiful ring looked like it was on the finger of your great-great-granny.
Honestly, my hands look ancient :: lined and dry and wrinkly.
My God, I have wrinkly hands, it's quite a shock.
I quickly had to go search out my emergency Winter-months Hand Rescue Treatment.
Had to lather my hands up before I could take a half-way decent picture.
Still, cheerfulness and all that, not letting the state of my hands drag me down.
I think they are great fashion accessories. Very pretty!
Posted by: Sally W | May 05, 2017 at 12:17 PM
Beads are really beautiful. Necklaces are lovely.
Posted by: Mothers Birthstone Necklace | May 02, 2010 at 08:01 PM
Nice Idea.
great & nice jewelery . what a fantastic products.
Posted by: silver bracelet | December 02, 2009 at 06:00 AM
Lovely lovely jewels! I'm off to BHF! t.xx
Posted by: kitschen pink | October 24, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Great disappointment in the VH household, no gorgeous necklaces in our BHF shop, only old biddy ones!
Have a lovely weekend
Julia xx
Posted by: julia | October 24, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Those are the hands of a hard-working Mum........... and anyway, don't worry, everyone will be looking at your lovely ring, not your hands, which really aren't horrible at all ............it is a close-up photograph after all............. and they'll be admiring your treasured knecklace.......... which is a great find.............
Posted by: vanessa | October 24, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Gorgeous Beads, so bright and cheerful, and the ring, my my.. delic..
Your hands aren't that bad, I am starting to get age spots on mine, but its only the right hand which is the drivers side window of my car. Love your blog check everyday
With Smiles
Kathryn
Kathryn in the Loft
Australia
Posted by: Kathryn | October 24, 2008 at 06:11 AM
I'm a huge fan of cheap'n'cheerful. Love the neclace, it's so pretty.
Posted by: Maddy | October 23, 2008 at 09:55 PM
I have also just commented on the state of my hands in a blog pic! I love your necklace and ring though, very beautiful and juicy looking. Plus, content yourself with your neck, that is NOT the neck of a 40 year old! :-)
Posted by: Rosepetaljam | October 23, 2008 at 09:27 PM
I wish I could make such pretty things - my only attempts at bead work have been rather disastrous!
Posted by: Rachael Rabbit | October 23, 2008 at 08:35 PM
Who's gonna be looking at your hands when you have that gorgeous necklace round your neck. I'm beetling off to our BHF charity shop tomorrow, I have to grab those gorgeous goodies!
What is it about hands once you hit 35, I'd never used hand cream in my life until I reached that little milestone, has anyone worked out how to do a cosmetic "handlift" yet??
Julia xx
Posted by: julia | October 23, 2008 at 07:27 PM
Ha Ha, my hands are the same, they seem to look far worse when the weather gets bad too!! LOVE the Jewellery! x
Posted by: Andrea | October 23, 2008 at 05:36 PM
Lucy you really make me laugh about the macro close up of your hand! I caught sight of my hands the other day and under my kitchen light I could see age spots beginning to form, so my hands are dry, wrinkly and spotty too!!! Thanks for coming to my blog to check on me. I am fine but still dealing with upredictable computers!
Posted by: simone | October 23, 2008 at 05:33 PM
great ring, you've never catch me showing my hands in a photo, wrinkles and terrible fingernails......
Posted by: driftwood | October 23, 2008 at 05:20 PM
oh, my hands are as bad - best get my own winter magic cream out again!
Love the beady necklace - it does look edible too!
Posted by: Katy | October 23, 2008 at 03:29 PM
Yew fule..
you should have asked your daughter to model it and then told us it was your baby soft skin (due to eating carrot cake regularly).
We would all have believed you.
Posted by: Alice C | October 23, 2008 at 02:55 PM
I've tried twice to comment and will look very stupid when they all appear!
Can't remember what I wanted to say but love the ring! Your blog is bad for my bank balance!
Posted by: Mrs Be | October 23, 2008 at 02:51 PM
They look lovely. Gald the tooth fairy arrived at your house. She was 2 days late at ours!
Posted by: Joanna | October 23, 2008 at 01:25 PM