Well, hello! Happy Monday! Once again, the weekend came and went, and I got a little more behind on my 31 Days projects. I did some reflecting on it, though, and aside from just busy times (and Halloween coming up – more on that later), I think I’ve figured out part of the problem. Last weekend and this weekend were PURPLE projects. I like purple – I mean, I love color in general, and there aren’t any I dislike – but I’m more drawn to reds or blues, even with projects. That’s the power of color – when I have a million things to do to catch up over the weekend AND the project I’m supposed to be working on is purple, I’m more likely to procrastinate. (Which is unfortunate, as purple is associated with creativity, wisdom, and peacefulness. It probably doesn’t help that 2 (this and this) of the 3 purple projects I’ve done this month haven’t turned out like I wanted them to, either.)

Also, it’s hard to sit down and make something when your workspace looks like this:

Let’s just remember that it used to look like this:

And it will look like this again. In November. Promise. But for now, I’m finishing up my rainbow of projects and working on Halloween costumes for our family. Want a peek?

I love dressing up as a family (this was us last year), so when BB decided he wanted to be Toothless, BG decided to be Astrid, and the rest just fell into place. (Confession: I just chose which character I’m going to be on Saturday, right before I went to JoAnn’s to buy fabric. Note to self: don’t go buy fabric the weekend before Halloween. Everyone is there buying fabric for costumes, and it’s crazy. CRAZY! The guy cutting fabric was hilarious, though, and made the whole thing much more interesting. He told me about his Halloween costume – Edward Scissorhands – and the costume he designed and sewed for a his friend – a harlequin!)

So Sunday, before BB and I got to work on costumes, I cleared a little corner of my workspace to make a necklace. I’ve been wanting a purple necklace if only for the fact that on days that I’ve been trying to wear purple this month, I haven’t really had many choices. A necklace would have been a quick solution. But guess what? The wooden diamonds from this bracelet are the only purple “beads” I have.

I played around with a few different color options (didn’t want just purple) and settled on a mix of purple and brown.

And then, surprise surprise, I totally LOVE it. These colors look so pretty together, especially on this delicate silver chain.

(Made me think of the harlequin costume.)

I’m going to be sad when these wooden beads are all gone. I love the necklaces I’ve made with them so far.

I’m going to have to list a few of them in my Etsy shop, though. I can’t keep all of them. But I’m going to keep this one.

So tell me, which do you like better – simpler and one color, or bigger with alternating colors? Just getting ideas for what I will make next. (And of course by “next”, I mean in November. When my desk is cleared off again.)

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