A public service announcement.
If you have a crafty friend, do not leave them unsupervised for three days with an apartment full of beads, or they will likely ignore everything that needs doing to make something like this:
. . . unless, of course, they need to make something like that ^, in which case they will take up Victorian hair embroidery or Korean paper folding.
Neurotic Owl 
Nara, what a gorgeous neckpiece! Wow!