My Creative Spirit Has Gone to the Dogs…and Cats…and…

I bought two sets of toggle clasps with charms. I wanted to make full bracelets, so I used a whole package per bracelet. The result is that I ended up with 2 adjustable length charm bracelets.

The bracelet above is kitty cats and fish with buttons and little beads.  I decided to add orange and cream colored buttons.   I was thinking of orange tiger striped kitties.  Even though the kitty clasps don’t have eyes, I added the blue beads to represent blue eyes. 

This bracelet is dogs and bones with some vintage(?) beads.  The charms looked like Dalmations to me, so I went with a black and white color combination.  I added a little red because my dogs have reddish mouths.

I did this one just for the fun of it. The sea horses were part of a box of beads I found at a garage sale. I thought they were cute. The light and medium blue discs I found at an estate sale. The discs reminded me of water.  I thought they were a perfect combination of sea horse and ocean water.  I decided my bracelet needed a bit more color and more variations in height.  I dug out a variety of orange beads from my collection.  The glass orange beads are new and the other orange beads I acquired at other sales.

I spent the morning yesterday washing and trimming our dogs and cleaning up after cats.  I guess they had me thinking about animals.  I guess I just have to go where my creative spirit leads me.