Seriously!
Beads made from beer and gin bottles, and decorated with silver and gold foil/leaf and pixie dust.
Silver and gold necklace
Tag: recycled glass necklace
Blue and Green recycled glass necklace
I love this necklace! The beads are from a Bombay Sapphire Gin and Tanqueray Gin bottle, and the copper beads in between have been enamelled by me!
Gin and tonic necklace with a splash of red
I’m loving putting splashes of red back with the Hendricks Gin and Fever-Tree tonic bottle jewellery!
[Note to self: you can’t keep everything].
Purple and green recycled glass necklace
I tend to work with a lot of green, brown and blue glass – think wine, beer and spirit bottles. Luckily I really like those colours, so it’s easy to work with them. And I like the message they are promoting, which is all about recycling!
But the other day a friend of mine gave me some purple glasses that were no longer useful, and I have to say it has been quite a treat working with them. It has added a real richness to the work, really feminine in a way too. It’s tricky to use glasses, but it’s worth the effort.
Gin and Tonic
Last week I was making a couple of Gin and Tonics, when I had a tiny little brain wave. Instead of trying to find a clear gin bottle for my “Be-Gin Again” exhibition, I would use tonic bottles instead! Hence the idea of having necklaces made from Gin AND Tonic bottles!
This is the first attempt at a Gin and Tonic necklace. I used a Hendricks Gin bottle for the darker beads, and a Fever-Tree Tonic bottle for the clear beads. I have enamelled the copper tubes in between, and made a note to myself that next time I do this – USE MORE RED!
Beer bottle necklace
My husband loves my work! Don’t get me wrong, we don’t drink all of the alcohol bottles that I use to make beads. I get a lot of gin and wine bottles donated to me. But I am happy to buy the beer bottles when I am getting low. And my husband is happy to help drink them!
[I tend to use Coopers Ale beer bottles for the brown beads I use, and Coopers Clear beer for the clear beads. I also use Peroni to make a really pretty green bead].
Serendipity!
I was supposed to post this yesterday, but after a long day at T’Arts and then coming home to my family…it just didn’t happen. Here it is…
Today I worked at T’Arts. I love my days in the shop, sometimes they are really busy, and sometimes they can be quiet, depending on the weather and other things that might be happening. Today it was a bit of both, which meant I had time to mess around with my display, and I had time to make some things, and I had time to serve customers too!
I was sitting down to make my recycled glass jewellery challenge piece, and was a bit cross with myself for not having anything planned for today. Why?? It would have made my life so much easier. Anyway, I was looking at the recycled glass beads that I had brought with me, and I was looking at some jewellery on display, and I thought….”why not take that bracelet apart and do something else with it?”
I had been super keen to make another necklace with my enamelled copper tubes, and I seemed to have a nice little selection of green and purple beads, so this is what I ended up making! Hooray for serendipity, because I definitely would not have made this if things hadn’t aligned the way they had.
Blue recycled glass bead necklace
I had no idea what I was going to make today! I was kind of running out of time too. The pressure was on. I picked up a blue bead. I felt like I hadn’t made anything blue for a little while, so it seemed like a good place to start. I picked up another blue bead, and another…and at first I thought I was making a bracelet, but when I had enough blue beads out I thought to myself “this would make a pretty necklace.”
And this is what I made today!
A visit to Bethany Wines
It was lovely to visit Bethany Wines this morning! I love the drive from Murray Bridge to the Barossa Valley, and autumn is a great time to visit as the countryside is rich with colour!
Before I left this morning I finished off a couple of necklaces for Bethany Wines. I love using their wine bottles to make beads and jewellery for their customers!
Colourful flower necklace
Whenever I make earrings I need to make more than 2 beads to get a pair. Often I will make at least 4 beads so that I can get the earrings just right.
So after making these flower earrings on the weekend, I had several beads leftover, and thought a necklace like this would work well.
[Beads made from a Bethany wine bottle].
