Year: 2022

Earrings #1, #2 and #3. My favourite colours, favourite beads, and my favourite styles of earrings. Each pair is $50. No extra for postage.

Bracelet #1. My favourites collection is now ready to be shared. Over the next week I will have pieces available for sale on Instagram/Facebook. It’s simple, if you like the piece, just get in touch and it could be yours. This bracelet features my favourite beads in my favourite colours, along with some freshwater pearls and semi-precious stones. It is $75, no extra for postage in Australia.

Spending time today making some more bits and pieces as part of my “favourites” collection! It’s slowly coming together.

My all-time favourite beads in my favourite colours! Kandinsky beads, this time with a round shape. Ocean wave beads. Square beads decorated with smashed up glass. Ellipse shaped beads have been a favourite for over a decade. Beads decorated with fine silver wire, sparkly! And dotty beads, love the dotty beads. Can you pick a favourite?

A mix of my favourite beads in my favourite colours, sprinkled with some freshwater pearls and semi-precious stones.

When I start putting a new collection of jewellery together, the first things I make are earrings! It’s nice to have the option of matching or mis-matching them, and they also need to be a similar size. Here are the first few pairs of earrings in my new “favourites” collection.

The collection of my favourite beads in my favourite colours is growing! I still have a few more styles to add to this collection and then I will start making some jewellery!

Unfortunately, not all glass bottles can be recycled to make beautiful glass beads. I was excited to be given this beautiful pale green gin bottle the other day, however when I took the lid off I could see that the pale green was just a coating on the bottle. I went ahead and smashed it, just in case, however when I put it in the flame it started going brown and the colour completely disappeared by the time I had finished making the beads. Definitely worth a try, but sorry to see no pale green beads this morning!

Meet a new Hendrick’s Gin bottle! I was wandering through the gin section of Dan Murphy’s last year and saw this bottle, and had to look twice and then hold it up to the light to see if it was really blue. It is a rather amazing, incredibly dark blue. I finally finished the bottle the other night and then went through the process of cleaning and breaking the bottle so I could make some test beads. Love how the earrings turned out. I only have one bottle of this glass, so it’s going to be a short and limited run of bits and pieces from it.

Starting to make a collection of my favourite beads in my favourite colours.