The Lolliest Beads Of All

A few years ago I came across some of the biggest beads I’d ever seen. Each of those gorgeous gob stoppers was over an inch in diameter. I beheld a glorious vision of a necklace that Betty and Wilma would have been proud to own. 

Since then I have in fact bought bigger beads, overseas and on holiday in Queensland, Australia. But at least I could still say for a fact that these beads were the lolliest I’ve ever seen. Until …

Some time after I made my necklace I came across a vintage 60s Lucite bead necklace on eBay. It was almost exactly the same, apart from a few minor design details, and the colour of course. The chain extender is handy, and the smaller beads at the end would help the necklace sit nicely around the neck. But for all these benefits, and as much as I usually love candy pink and grey, happily I still prefer my own necklace because the colours are much warmer in tone.

And who would want to eat a grey lolly after all?