Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain

I finished my necklace and wanted to take a picture before I left town... of course it was raining, and my light is through north facing windows.

Here is the finished piece on a pillow:

Blue Eyes on my pillow... yes it sounds like a country ballad

And here is a different, but similar view:

Blue Eyes again

 Blue Eyes has 54 beads and is 96 inches long!

That being said, it turns out I am just not very productive after I get home during the week.

I only added one more beaded bead, an Empress Bead- I still love this pattern:

Blue and White Empress Bead

The caps that I picked up in Philadelphia were the perfect fit for the Empress Bead.

And I had additional Blue Eye Beads, which I wired together with other beads to make compound links:

Compound beaded links from wired components

What the heck do you call these?  Beads? Links? Compound Beads?  Any suggestions?

When I put this necklace together, I created 4 piles:
1) Beaded Beads
2) Simple Compound Beads
3) Blue Eye Compound Beads
4) Blue Eye Capped Beads (from last week)
I then created a randomly generated list using those numbers and that is how I put together the necklace.

I will be home this week, after 8 weeks away for training.  I have 5 tutorials!  I was a very lucky winner of a contest by Callie of The Peregrine Beader and won three, yes 3, tutorials.  I can't wait to start a new project.