No, the caterpillar and rose aren't together... I think when that happens it results in a grumpy gardener
I'm not very good at showing pictures of my work, but Celia of Jencel told me to. So I am!
The first one is the caterpillar- I call it the extraterrestrial caterpillar since it doesn't look like anything on Earth. It's a project in Mastering Beadwork by Carol Huber Cypher though I changed it a bit because I wanted the round glass beads to sit more closely to the bracelet and not flop around.
It looks more like a caterpillar when it's upside down:
At this point I should say that I need more practice at photography, and that I don't have a tripod, which means I take lots of blurry photos. I think about 20% of my shots come out in focus!
The rose bracelet is one that I made up as I went along though I had the basic idea there- I added in the little pink flowers in the peyote stitch randomly because making a pattern and then following it would take up valuable beading time
And then I put the ruffles on the edges because I
peyote ruffles and spirals.
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Now, if you looked at that photo and thought "what was daisybell thinking when she put the rose and the leaf on like that?" But there was a clever plan! And it worked... I think.
Modeled by my own fair hand 
which was quite difficult actually since then I only had one hand to hold the camera. There are two other pictures Only registered users can see links on this forum!
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which might be clearer.
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