Second Contest Giveaway

I'll be counting up the beads in the First Contest Giveaway and will announce the winner tonight.
I continue to de-stash some beads and here is the Second Contest Giveaway.
This is not a newly purchased item. I bought this several years ago. It's called Bead Bucket by Beadalon. It makes a handy little traveling container, but I quickly - quickly - outgrew it.
Besides storage inside the bucket, there are 5 detachable, storage boxes. You will win the container and all the beads show.

Your challenge, should you decide to accept it, is to guess the total number of beads in all 5 boxes.
Please read rules below and for those at the HIVE, guesses must be made here on the blog, not at
the HIVE so all participants can see the guesses.

1. First person to guess the exact number, (or comes closest without going over) of beads in this container wins.
2. Leave your guess in the comments below. First guess.
3. Become of a Follower of my Blog and leave a Second comment stating so and a Second Guess at the number of beads in the container.
3. If you blog about the contest on your blog, return here and leave a Third comment that you have blogged about the contest, a link to your blog, and leave your Third Guess in that comment.
4. Each Guess must be in 1st, 2d or 3rd separate post. If you read this on the Hive, you must
visit the blog and post comment here under this post. Guesses made on the Hive and not the actual blog will not be considered.
5. The contest will end on Dec 4, 10pm and winner announced within 2 days and mailed within 2 days from announcement. Any guesses made after
Dec 4 will not be considered.
6. Open to USA mailing addresses only. Sorry shipping anywhere else is just too darn expensive.

Good Luck

Cab Along with Me.....

Was that a Perry Como song? Oh, that was Dream Along with Me, sorry.
Our next adventure will be bead embroidery. This will eventually be a
cuff bracelet. I'm working on a lightweight piece of leather. I've outlined
the shapes of the cabochons on the leather and I've started to do the
stitching for the first stone. First, I'm outlining it with 11/0 seed beads.
Since the subsequent rows of beads around the cabochons will be in peyote
stitch, I'll make sure the first row has an even number of beads.

Time in the Fall

Copper seem to call to me this fall. First a copper watch face, then a clasp. So copper was the natural color choice for the band, made up in herringbone stitch. I like the clasp so much, I thought it looked great next to the watch face instead of the normal spot. Glass autumn leaves were used to embellish the band for just a extra kick.

Halloween Jack o Lantern Bracelet

It's been finished for a couple of weeks but I didn't like my first photo attempt.
This is done in peyote stitch, graph is below in an older post. Graph was made
using BeadCreatorPro. Note my cute little black cat bead used in the closure.

Herringbone Used in Triangle Pt 3

Elongated Triangles - two sides longer than the third.