Black Rose ( french beadwork)

My daughter is on her date right now so this can be posted.  She is at a girls choice dance.  She wanted something special to give the guy when they went on their date.  Anyone can give a rose but a handmade beaded black rose well that is just not common.  So this is what she gave the young man.
The dance is a costume dance.  They went as Aragorn and Arwen from the Lord of the Rings.

This rose was made from beads left over from other projects.  As I finish a project if there are beads left over I sort them into color families and drop them into small containers.  When the container is full I know I have enough beads to make one rose.  The container is about the size of  a tic tac container.  So in this case the containers were a green one and  a grayish black one.  As you notice sometimes there are other colors mixed in that is on purpose not a mistake.  I like to have  a few beads random like  a blue bead here and there in the black and so on just to give  a little more variety to the piece.  The clear and iridescent are purposely with the black.  The wire being used is a 24 gauge wire.