French Beaded Flowers

I got into french beaded flowers a few years ago, and I haven't done anything with them for a while. I love the organic look of the french beading technique (compared to the geometric victorian style, see the difference). But I already have tons of tchotchkes and I like to use my shelf space for storing useful stuff. So I've been holding off on the beaded flowers until I find more places to apply them. I've been thinking about jewelry, but I haven't quite gotten the technique worked out yet. Traditional french beaded flower assembly wraps all the pieces together to create a stem, which is great for flower arrangements but doesn't work for anything where the flower is flush to a surface -- it's hard to apply these flowers to hair accessories or purses. And they're REALLY heavy. Anyway, here's one of my favorite flowers. I did this with a gradient of four bead colors, so I had to string as I went rather than the usual practice of loading a ton of beads on the wire directly from the hank. It took even longer than usual, but I like the look.