My eyes!!

I've forgotten how tiny these seed beads are. And these are 11's, not even 15's.

Took ALL morning. And I'm sort of thinking that's crazy, because now my vision is fuzzy, and seeing the picture, it seemed like I did contained twice as beads than I see now...lol.

But I love how he turned out!

I also learned that I much prefer what's called 'Freeform Peyote' because I can't follow a pattern for the life of me. I tried to make those very precise triangular geometric shapes, and it was no fun. Cool result, but it took me 3 tries to get every bead in it's proper placement.

For this little guy, I followed a tutorial from a beader called Rrkra on deviantart. Linky  I decided to secure the tail to the body, and used what beads I had to make him. I may add scales later that I have on order from Bellomodo.

It's a fabulous size to wear, and I'm going to wear it to class on Monday. My students will love it!