The "River of Life" meets Mr. Death?

I'm loving the beaded skull!

I'm loving it so much, that I'm not so sure I want to put it on my crappy assed "River of Life" creation.

Maybe I'll turn this into a beaded bracelet of some kind....a glorious homage to "Day of the Dead".

Decisions, decisions...

Well, for those of you who might be interested, this skull measures 1 1/2 inches by 1 inch. It was hand sculpted with sculpey clay and I applied a light dusting of copper mica powder before I baked the darn thing. (The colors are much more vibrant in real life!)

Once the skull was baked, I took a fine brush and dabbed some Lumiere blue/green paint into the eye sockets, and other depressed areas. Then I grabbed my oh so versatile Golden's Gel medium and applied a glossy finish to the entire piece with a glob or two extra to secure the flatback Austrian crystals in the eye sockets.

I used Czech 11/0 matte brown iris beads and some vintage Czech sapphire blue 16/0's to bead around the skull.

Voila!

Now I have one beaded skull motif!

The only question that remains, is what the heck am I going to do with the darn thing?