I might be losing my Marbles!

Over the past few weeks I have been busy up in my little crafty attic beavering away quite contentedly making sure I had plenty of handmade stock ready for our very first Rothbury Makers Market.
Those of you who are crafters probably know that you tend to drift into your own little world of pleasure while busy crafting, so you do get a bit oblivious to time.
Anyway, the other day I must have put in about six hours work making some of my marble necklaces, only to have completed the grand total of four!

Time for a time and motion study me thinks! How can they take so long as I had already previously wire wrapped the marbles, and each necklace has no more than 21 beads on it! There was definitely no napping up the attic!

Time and Motion Report

I have quite a few jars and tins of random beads, they are full of all sizes, colours shapes etc so I have to randomly select a random jar. I then co-ordinate the colours to compliment the wrapped marble, seems easy enough still no clue as to the disappearing minutes/hours.

 This next bit may just have something to do with it though, each bead has to audition for their role, they have to be the perfect size and colour if they don't fit the bill at this stage they are rejected back to the jar.

 the auditioning goes on until there is a plentiful selection of  beads to make the short list and the next vital task they have to perform. The wax cotton cord test!

 I like to string the beads on coloured wax cotton so they can be tied for wearing at desired length, this really sorts the beads into winners and losers as many lovely beads just can't take the cord.
 So eventually I end up with a finished article with a team of beads that work in harmony with the wrapped marble.

So bead rejection is the biggest consumption of my time but I wouldn't want to churn out  things that didn't look right just for the sake of an hour or two!
Now, if I were to pay myself an hourly rate of minimum wage plus the cost of materials used I would maybe have to put on a price ticket of somewhere in the region of £18, being a sensible lass though and realising that craft work, however lovely, has a price in which it will sell, so if you know anyone who needs to keep hold of a marble I am selling these for the sensible price of  £6.50. I will hopefully list them on my Facebook page over the next couple of days.