Originally, I was thinking of hanging the bead vertical, with perhaps black teardrop beads hanging beneath the ceramic bead, capped by the bead cap. After looking at the proportions, I liked it more with the bead horizontal. Also, the pink/red beads appear to be more of an accent this way, rather than dominating the design.…

I’m hoping the final necklace looks better than these “hats!” I was thinking of those bead balls when I made this; trying to make half a bead ball. That obviously didn’t work. With this one, I was hoping to get it to lay more flush to the ceramic bead, but instead I get this floppy…