Beaded Badge Holder

I have not done a bead project for at least two years.  While on Yarn Along the Rockies, I picked up a kit for a beaded badge holder.  

It was an impulse buy and not the worst one I have ever made.  I am going to admit that I am rusty on working with beads.  First, thing I did was sort the beads and then I didn't read all of the directions. Not reading all the directions lead to having to back up and restring a bunch of beads. If I had read the directions, I would have realized starting out that I wasn't going to use to metal beads where it said to.  There were only enough beads to use one in each location.  I believe the silver beads include were about the size of two beads mentioned in the instructions.

 And I am glad I have some basic beading supplies since I dropped two of the tiny crimp beads and had one fail to attach.  For some reason crimp tubes work better with my crimp pliers.

All in all, it turned out looking pretty much like I expected.