Graveyard Glitter

I'm close to running out of pink beads now. I'm having too much fun to care. I love Jigglypuff. It's not in my top 10 favorites list, but I grew up watching Pokémon on TV as well as playing the games. A Jigglypuff was an important character in several episodes, so I needed to reference it in this set. Igglybuff: For Igglybuff, I just attached some charms to earring hooks. I tried to add some beads, but I couldn't close the earrings properly, so I gave up. Jigglypuff: These beads are all leftovers from the Clefairy set. The black ones came with the big pink center bead, and represent the microphone. Wigglytuff: I don't have a lot of white beads, but fortunately, the big pink beads came with some. All of these were from the packages I used to make the Clefairy set. I'm still going strong. Hopefully, I can actually make money sometime soon.

I've always liked cute Pokémon over the powerful ones, even now. I am a fire enthusiast. Combining these facts means that I should have a Vulpix or Ninetales on my game team every time I can. But I don't. I do, on the other hand, love how this set turned out. Vulpix: The brown beads are leftovers from the birds. The orange ones came from the clearance section of my Hobby Lobby before quarantine. Ninetales: This necklace uses the orange beads from the Vulpix earrings, and some orange and white crackle beads that I bought from ebay specifically for Ninetales. Tiny light peach beads are between each crackle bead, and between every set of two plain orange beads. Those tiny beads were also from ebay. I had to buy another container dedicated just to my Pokémon project stuff, but I am still listing other sets on ebay. I think I might keep this set for myself, and not just because I messed up a little on the back.

I wanted these big tubs of round beads for a few years. Before Hobby Lobby closed for the pandemic, they had them on sale. I bought them. And I am so glad I did, because I did not have the right shade of pink for this line otherwise. Cleffa: The pink beads on these earrings came from Wal-Mart, the brown from the bird families. These aren't anything special, but the glitter on the pink beads makes it clear that Cleffa was the inspiration. Clefairy: The Clefairy bracelet was harder to come up with. Most of the beads are from Wal-Mart, but the big pink one in the center was from the Hobby Lobby pack. Clefable: This one turned out a lot better than I thought it would. I used the same beads from the other two pieces to finish it, and added darker pink wooden beads from ebay to finish it. It turns out that the beads were the exact same color of Clefable's wings. I'm probably going to list this set, but there's a chance I'll just reserve it

While I was coming up with ideas for these Pokémon, quarantine hit. I had no way to go shopping, and limited funds outside of cash. Fortunately, I had enough in my paypal for a few purple beads, and even buying increases the feedback for my ebay store, which means I'll be selling again soon. So, with that out of the way, here are the projects for the Nidoking line. Nidoran: The thing I love most about Nidoran is that the girls are blue and the boys are pink. Well, the boys were pink in the official art for the first games and have been getting more purple since, but I went with pink on this one because pink is a color I actually had. The purple-splattered beads are from Hobby Lobby clearance last year, and I found the tiny pink ones in a thrift store or flea market two years ago. Nidorino: The bracelet is way too big for my child-sized wrist, but that's ok, because it means this set might actually sell. The beads around came from Hobby Lobby before quarant

These beads were from my last craft supply shopping trip before the quarantine hit. Even though I miss thrift shopping so much (and no longer have the opportunity to take this stuff to craft fairs) I can still shop online for my stuff. If I try to use up my gift cards and only use PayPal for emergency funds, I can keep this going. Nidoran: These beads came from a necklace I bought for $2 at a thrift store. The beads are plastic and not really good quality, but they were cute and they make cute things. And it was a long necklace, so I can make a lot of cute things with only $2. Nidorina: I used some of the beads from the necklace I made the earrings from, but the darker beads are from Hobby Lobby. Nidoqueen: The centerpiece of this necklace came from one of my more expensive bead strands, which was over $2 in clearance. I think it was worth it for a piece this great. The round dark beads coming up the back were given to me by my dad, so h

Due to various factors, mostly procrastination, this set is finally done. The necklace took a lot more time than I originally thought, and by the time I finished, I was just desperate to get this posted so I could move on to the really fun beads I got for the next two blog posts. There is the standard commentary about my camera flash being a source of constant problems, but I'll try to have a black background from now on to force it to work. Even when I do the ghost family. Sandshrew: I bought these beads from Hobby Lobby. The tan beads came from when I made the Pidgey and Spearow families, and the black beads (Sandshrew's eyes) are ones I always stock up on with every sale. In the middle is a bead from the Weedle family project. Sandslash: I used the same Weedle bead for the center of this one, and added some brown from the early birds and the broken necklace that has given me a lot more use than I originally thought. The claws are represented by the