Sea Glass & Pearl Charm Necklace Tutorial

• 27mm Recycled Sea Glass Stick Bead (Pink)
• Pewter Heart Connector
• Irregular Pink Pearl
• Decorative Pewter Head Pin
• 7mm Pewter Bead Cap
• 2-Hole Pewter Spacer
• 30″ 3mm Cable Chain
• 6 ” 20-Gauge Silver Plated Wire
• 2 – 10mm Jump Rings
• 3 – 6mm Jump Rings
• Round Nose Pliers
• Chain Nose Pliers
• Wire Cutters

First, you’ll do some basic wire work to create your recycled sea glass charm.  While you can of course simply attach a 10mm jump ring to the stick bead, the wire coil offers a little something extra to the design!  To make it, cut a 6-inch piece of wire, and coil one side around the tip of your round nosed pliers.

Insert the wire end through the hole of the bead, and bend the coil so that it rests against the side of the bead.

Finally, make a large loop from the back side of the bead, looping over the top.  Trim off any excess wire.  Gently curve the end of the wire, and bring it back to meet the hole on the front side of the bead.

To create the pearl charm stack a 9mm pearl and 7mm bead cap onto a decorative headpin.  Bend the wire end of the head pin around your round nose pliers just above the bead cap to form a loop.  Then, wrap the wire end in neat coils between the loop you created and the top of the bead cap.

To get the right length to the pearl charm so that it matches with the long vertical shape of the sea glass charm and heart element, you will need to connect a few jump rings and/or connectors together.  I found that a 2-hole space plus 2 5mm jump rings placed the pearl just below the level of the heart connector.  You can adjust this length as you like to suit your style.