This week I got a chance to go to a really cool bead store called Black Market Minerals. I picked a bunch of really cool strands from their dollar table...

Lots of fun, right?

I don't have kiddos in school, so to me, August is still summer, and I've been looking at all the coral stuff this summer wishing I had some coral things to wear. But I'm not brave enough to go with a whole article of clothing. Most of my work clothes are a variation of black or brown. But I'm brave enough for a pop of coral in jewelry, and these strands of coral colored shell beads were calling my name. Shells plus coral color definitely equals summertime! I had picked up some necklace hardware for a simple one stranded necklace, but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted something a little, well more.

I settled on a simple bib-type design necklace using the coral shell beads and some pretty turquoise beads, but I didn't really want to go back to the store to get more hardware, so this is how I made a simple bib necklace without extra hardware.

First, I took the strand with the latch hardware already attached. I threaded on about 8 beads so that the back of the necklace was just one strand.




I then threaded both strands through a single bead and then made a not in the secondary strand.



That's it! The only hardware I used was the clasp hardware, and I ended up with a pretty beachy bib necklace.