Emptying shuttles

All my shuttles (all forty or fifty of them!) have thread on them from some project - I'm just useless at calculating how much thread I need and I always end up with way too much left on the shuttle. I needed some empty shuttles, so I sat down and made a few things from the little thread leftovers. I didn't want to join more thread from a ball, so I made up these things as I went, using rings only:

The black one is made with some Perle Cotton size 20 and green transparent seed beads. The blue & white is made with Flora 20, color #55. The tiny black & purple one is made with Valdani variegated (size 70/80) in "Black & Indigo". This is one of my favorite color combinations, and I really wish this thread would be thicker so I could tat with it more easily, I'm still not used to tatting with such thin thread. I don't know if many people have heard of this thread before, but I get it from Roseground. Check it out if you want :) The white pendant with green beads is made with size 40 thread, don't know the brand. The reason it's asymmetrical is simply that I ran out of thread and had to skip the final ring. I managed to open the last ring, but picking up the stitches proved far more difficult, so I gave up and decided to leave it as it is. Works well enough for a test design, right? :) It didn't come out well on the light background, so here's a better view of it:

The green pendant was an attempt to redo the design of the white one, but I ran out of thread even sooner, and it became a totally different shape. The thread is Coats Opera I think, size 20. I really like the designs of the two pendants, and I'm considering making them into earrings or something. That should solve some Christmas present problems :)