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What looks like a Half-Persian-3-in-1 or Half-Persian-4-in-1 chain (black and silver) with shiny black yarn or thread crocheted onto one edge. Cool.

What I like about this is that the necklace doesn't just end at the donut pendant, but continues on through with the matching leather cord dangle. Part of the reason it works is because the same leather cord is used above and below, and because the cord above is attached so as to mirror the cord below. (original listing has vanished)

One necklace which can be worn in three different ways (really two ways) - one as a long necklace with a hoop pendant, secondly doubled over with the hoop used as part of a toggle clasp. (Third way is just the second way, worn backwards) Nifty idea.

Amethyst druzy focal, clasped within gold and silver branches.

Byzantine variations with rings orbiting conections or flower rings. Kind of tribal looking, especially the ones with orbitals. (The link goes to a page of jewellery classes, which is where this image came from.)

Delicate crocheted wire necklace.

This is apparently the \Clear Celtic Princess Necklace\ as featured in \Creative Beading Magazine Volume 8 No 4\. I like it. The thing that strikes me is the nifty way the four-way Celtic knot charms are used to attach beads/dangles to make feature-points in the necklace.

Lariat-style necklace which works because the cord is leather and that makes it easier to slip the two ends through the folded end (a bit like pulling the ends of a scarf through the folded end, only a necklace). I like the way the dangly ends are the centrepiece, and how they are adjusted so that one end is below the other end, so that you can see both ends clearly instead of them being tangled up in each other.

Necklace which uses a leaf toggle clasp as a centrepiece, by attaching the necklace part to the loop of the toggle, and adding an additional dangle to the part of the toggle which would normally be connected to the necklace. Brilliant! (the original links to an Ebay listing which has since vanished)

Simple but elegant; large glass bead used as a focal for a leather and wire-wrapped necklace.

Blue glass marble and wire woven _snails_ jewellery. The link has a tutorial you can buy for 10 dollars, and more pics. I like the colors and ethereal effect, and if one isn't crazy about snails, one can think of them as seashells.

The idea here is to take a cord and make a crochet-like chain on one side of the necklace, and leave the other side plain. That's an interesting texture/chunkiness contrast. In this example, the cord happens to be a beaded crochet cord, but the idea would work for any pretty cord. (original page gone)

Cool idea: spell out a word in Morse Code with long and short beads. Adds a (hidden) meaning to the work.

Turquoise donut pendant with satin cord Kumihimo braids on each side attached to it. What makes this interesting is that I think the braids started from the pendant, given the way the cords are wrapped around it, though I could be mistaken. But I like that idea, anyway.

Combination of chain and crochet; I love the sweeping crochet in green and brown.

(original listing gone)

Maille necklace with cascades of plastic scales in graduating colours (clear, blue, purple, black).

I like the texture contrast between the large and small beads. Jose and Maria Barrera twisted strand necklace. Dyed agate with glass beads, faceted black jet and iridescent red glass crystals. (original page gone)

That is pretty enough that I almost want to take up intricate seed-beading again.

A fun idea, to make crocheted 'daisies' for making daisy chains