I have made some new earrings for Colour Play this month.
Some of them are still available online. Click here for more details.
This week I am sharing some pink and purple earrings. Love the etched finish on these beads. Makes them so soft and pretty.
Happy World Gin Day to you! I am having quite the love affair with gin bottles at the moment. The beads in this bracelet were made from Hendricks, Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire Gin bottles. Cheers gin lovers…
New earrings! Red and black handmade glass beads. Sterling silver rings (hand-formed and textured).
Hope you have enjoyed colour play for May! I enjoyed making the beads and the jewellery. Now it’s time for the last of the necklaces, this time with a green theme.
Time for some more colour!
This week the necklaces all have a purple theme.
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I’m having a tiny break from making after creating 40 pieces for “Be-Gin Again” which is the exhibition being hosted by Local Images as part of the Penola Arts Festival.
It has been a crazy week of making all sorts of pieces for this exhibition. All of the beads were made from gin (and tonic bottles)!
The exhibition opened tonight, and already quite a few pieces have sold. I’m thrilled that the work has had such a good response here! Thanks Penola, you rock!
I hope you enjoyed last week’s colour play. This week I am sharing necklaces with more turquoise coloured beads. The necklaces are adjustable, and if you are interested in seeing more, simply head to the online shop.
Yesterday I made a lovely pair of long earrings that were very dangly and very swingy. They were made from a Hendricks Gin bottle and a Fever-Tree tonic bottle, and featured some enamelled copper tube beads that I had also made. I test wore them yesterday, and really loved them. But I thought to myself….they might not be for everyone.
So today I have made a more streamlined, refined pair of earrings. Featuring the enamelled copper tubes, and a small Hendricks Gin bottle bead, they are super elegant.
Sometimes the challenge to make a piece of recycled glass jewellery is difficult.
And some days, it’s quite simple (like today).
And yet, the end result is that I made a new style of earrings that I have never made before!
Today I took this idea, and this idea, and tweaked them to make a new pair of earrings like this:
This morning I was thinking about what I was going to make today as part of my “Year of Recycled Glass Jewellery“, and I kind of wanted to use more of the rings that I had made and textured, but I thought I might have already made enough earrings (at this stage). Then I had a little brain wave and thought – “I could use the rings for pendants.”
Yay! I had been using pre-made findings for the pendants, and I was so excited to think that I could now make my own pendant rings! It was quite exciting (yes, the little things).
It also made me wish I had gotten my silver jewellery making tools and equipment out a long time ago….but maybe now is the right time? Well, I can’t undo the past, but I can go forward making new things, and that feels pretty good at the moment.
