Crowned Empress Beaded Bracelet

It’s taken me a long time to make and post another beaded project. I miss it so much! I like creating beautiful things! This took me a long time and was a difficult project. I didn’t realize what the difficulty rating on this one until I took the photo below. This bracelet is worth all the hours I spent on it. It reminds me of an Egyptian bracelet from the movie “The Mummy” with a scarab-looking medallion. I think you will agree that this is a spectacular bracelet! One of my favorite projects so far in my history of making beaded jewelry!

This is a pattern designed by Theodora Seimeni called “Crowned Empress Bracelet”. This project required A LOT of beads as you can see from the photo, a list of about 13 different kinds of beads. I didn’t have the pearls that are shown here so I eliminated it, which made it look more Egyptian, just the way I like. Adding pearls would’ve been more heavy and more likely to break off. I also made the clasp into a magnetic clasp instead of what the designer had in mind. If I can put magnets on all my jewelry, I would. They are so easy to get on and off.

Look at the materials list! It was so long! It made me faint but I trudged on.

My beading tray had a mess of beads, several I didn’t end up using. I usually ask my son to clean up the tray by putting the beads back to the right bags. I mean, I have to PAY him to put it back, nothing is for free. When the boys were little, I can ask them to do this for coins, now it’s dollars only.

At one point while I was making this, I thought I should stop after making this medallion and use it as a pendant instead. I didn’t want to finish the bracelet because it seemed like there was more work. I’m glad I finished it because now it looked far more superior than I had imagined.

Ta-da!!! The finished bracelet!!! Isn’t that awesome?! The worst part is stitching the medallion to stay in place on that bracelet. It kept getting all crooked.

The backside had a lot of weaving. The cream colored beads in the back mixed with blues are my favorite part. Those are a combination of colors that I like to wear in clothes.

This is one of those pieces that looked awesome when it is worn! I can’t believe how beautiful it looked on my wrist! I LOVE IT!!! There are probably 5-6 different shades of blue here. I had no idea the colors would turn out this way. It all just came together so nicely.

So beautiful, you have to see it AGAIN on my wrist! I have a really small wrist so I often have to make my own bracelets.

That’s it for me today! I hope you enjoyed looking at my beaded bracelet! I am already looking at another beaded project to start.