Braided Bead and Chain Necklace

On Pinterest I found a braided bead chain necklace...for forty dollars.  I decided to make the same type of bracelet for under ten!
Materials:
Small beads, (any color)
Wire (not too bendable, but just a little)
Crimping beads
Lobster clasp, or any other clasp that you want
Silver chain
Bead pliers
All of these materials can be found at Michael's 
You can decide how long you want the braided bead part of the necklace to be, once you have decided this, measure all your wire this same length plus about two inches for the wire you will lose braiding the wires and crimping them
Steps:
1. You first need to take two lengths of wire and bind them together with a crimping bead
2. I recommend getting a string of beads, not just a box so you won't have to one by one place your small beads onto the wire
3. Take the string of beads, pull it straight at a down ward angle
4. With your wire, try to follow the string, lacing the wire through all the beads, this is difficult, so just do it as best as you can, it gets a lot easier with practice!
5.  Once you have an entire string of beads on your wire, leave some room to secure the wires together, and since you have to do another strand without dropping the first you have just completed, I recommend taping the end of the wire, making the bottom too thick for the beads to fall out, (speaking from experience I dropped two strands of beads before I had the sense to tape the ends
6. Once you have strung the beads on the second wire, make sure the two wires have the same length of beads on them, with place a crimping bead onto both of the strings, and using your pliers, press down securing your first strand of the braid
7. Repeat steps 3-6 two more times so that you now have three strands of beads, each with two wires
8. Use another crimping bead and take all of the strands, (there's six!) and secure them all together
8. Now tightly braid all of the strands together, keep it neat!
9. When you have completed the braid, crimp the rest of the ends together, and now you're ready for the chain
10. Measure out how much chain you will need, and place a crimping bead on the six wires
11. loop the wires around the first link of the chain, and then go through the crimping bead, use your jewelry pliers to secure the bead
12. Do the same to the other side of your necklace
Watch out for wires sticking out of the crimping beads, they poke!  If you do accidentally end up with poking wires, you can dull them by taking a nail file and running it against the sticking out wire.