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Red wine bottle necklace

recycled glass necklace

After making two different pairs of earrings (long version and short version), and a cute bracelet with this colour, it’s now time to make a necklace to pull it all together! I love being able to put colour into the clear wine bottles, and love this red blend that I have used. Red is quite a difficult colour to find in glass, so it’s nice to be able to still make recycled glass beads and make them red.

recycled glass necklace

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Red wine bottle bracelet

recycled glass bead bracelet

I think this might possibly be the cutest bracelet I have ever made! The other day I was making beads using a wine bottle, adding red frit to them, and after I made some round ones, I made some small flat ones. As soon as I saw the beads I thought to myself “keep going” and I ended up making quite a few of these small flat beads.

I couldn’t wait to open the kiln the next day and see how they turned out. I quickly cleaned them, and made this bracelet, and I’m so happy with the way this turned out. I can see myself making more of this style going forward.

recycled glass bead bracelet

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Hendricks Gin Bottle Bracelet

recycled glass bead bracelet

Following on from yesterday’s post, this bracelet was made with Hendricks Gin Bottle beads. I love how the dark brown beads look black when you wear them, and are such a pretty contrast to the silvery beads in the bracelet. Really loving the Hendricks gin bottle, and wondering why I didn’t smash it sooner to make beads!

recycled glass bead bracelet