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.

Blue Eyes

The name of the necklace I am working on is: Blue Eyes.  The name is based on these inspirational beads:

Inspiration: A gift from my mom from her trip to Greece

I almost named the necklace Athena because the beads originated in Greece.  Even though Athena is prettier, blue eyes just seemed to fit better.

The beads my mother brought me back from Greece had some silver colored spacers between them.  I used those, plus some spacers and put them together with wire wrapped loops to make larger beads.

Inspiration beads with caps

This is going to be a LONG necklace to wrap around my neck multiple times.  I have created these simple link beads from my stash:

Simple compound beads with wire wrapped loops

As you must have realized by now, I am passionate about bead weaving.  I created these not so simple compound beads from beaded beads, caps, and wire wrapped loops:

Not so simple compound beads with wire wrapped loops

Here are all of the components so far:

Blue eyes components so far.

I have that handful of uncapped blue eye beads in the first picture to do something with.  I will likely make a few more beaded beads.  Then, I will likely curse a blue streak as I try to figure out once again how to photograph a long necklace.  Stay tuned.