Category: Recycled Glass

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Beer Bottle Beads with Gold Leaf

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Once you try one new thing, more new ideas pop into your head that need to be tried!  I used to make these beads just by melting and dripping the glass (no decoration).  A couple of weeks ago I started rolling the glass in frit before I melted and dripped them, and I loved the result.  This week, I have been dripping the glass and then rolling them in gold leaf.  Love this too, and can’t wait to put all of this jewellery together.

I am making this new range for Murray Bridge Regional Art Gallery where I will be Artist of the Month for January and February.

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Recycled Glass Beads

I am working with another artist, making the beads that she needs for her art exhibition.  When she was picking out some beads the other day, she asked “I don’t suppose you could make any of these in pink or red or purple?”

To be honest, those colours are the rarest colours when it comes to recycled glass.  I can get loads of different shades of green and blue, brown and clear are easy too.  But pink, red and purple are tricky.

But, those were colours that she wanted for her project, and she wanted recycled glass, so I had to come up with something.  This is what I came up with:

Wine Bottle Beads, dipped in frit and then dripped!

Wine bottle glass dipped in frit and then dripped!  I have not shown them to Naomi yet, but I really hope she likes them.

I can see a lot of possibilities for my own work with these beads.  So pretty!  I think I might even incorporate them into one of my upcoming exhibitions.  So pleased!

 

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It only takes one person….

Someone emailed me yesterday about my 12 Days of December offers.  I won’t go into the details of their email, but let me just say that what started out as a fun thing to do, has now left me feeling like I have done the wrong thing by my customers.  I thought…if one person is complaining….what are others thinking?

So, this is an open apology if I have offended anyone with my special offers.  I have thought  a lot about it overnight, and have decided to stop them.

Everyone can still get 20% discount in my Etsy shop using the code THANKS.  That one is there forever and you can use it at any time.

Thanks for understanding.

Here is a photo of the Coopers Sparkling Ale necklace and earrings I made for the Urban Cow “Adelaide” Exhibition recently.  I realised the other day that I didn’t have a photo of it.

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Peroni Beer Bottle – Recycled Glass Bead Jewellery

The beads in this jewellery were made from a Peroni Beer Bottle. Fantastic green! Eco-friendly!So, it started as a bit of an ironic idea….making beads from an Italian beer bottle!  But often the ideas that seem a bit silly to start with can end up being the best ones.  Have you ever noticed that?

I love the colour of this glass, the green is so bright and crisp (er, a bit like the beer really).

The Peroni range has been the most popular of my recycled glass pieces on Etsy, and in the shops that stock my recycled range, this past month.

 

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Peroni Beer Bottle Jewellery

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The beads in this jewellery were made from a Peroni Beer Bottle!

I thought it was kind of funny to use an Italian Beer bottle to make the beads, especially as most glass beadmakers use Italian Glass to make their beads!

So, it started out as a bit of a joke, but I actually really like this green.  Lovely and bright emerald green.

Available now in my Etsy and Ethikl shops.