I was away for two months, so now I play catch up!
sapphire rondelles, smokey quartz brio and sterling silver. These are 4 inches long.
I made these simple bracelets to stock up for some Craft fairs I hope to do this summer, I am hoping to move towards producing ranges of designs a little this year, so I guess this is a baby step in that direction! For more information, please visit my blog.
I started off making a bracelet but the beads are too long to lay properly on the wrist so I decided to make a necklace. However, I ran out of silver wire and then had a flare up of carpel tunnel so this one awaits finishing. The beads have a really cool iridescent-AB-rainbow kind of finish. I'm not sure what to call it but it didn't capture well in this photograph.
Many pardons for being sooooo late. I havent been feeling the best and am rushed off my feet lately.
Nothing on theme for the next few entries but I have been making things lol.
Here are a pair of earrings, very simple, sterling wire, beads and fish.
Cas xxx
Slowly catching up with the photos
Another Connie Fox style bracelet.
I really like these and am beginning to find the style quite addictive. The bracelet is sterling silver with some Bali silver beads and a couple of hand made glass beads (not by me). This was my first attempt at twisting my own wire and i was so pleased with the results.
When making this i came up with the usual dilemma - to oxidise or not.
I really like the effect of these bracelets when they are oxidised (YOJ week 8 posting), but my friend who made one (her bracelet is the one on my blog with the brown beads) loves them shiny and was adament that she did not weant hers to be oxidised. Since I made this one to sell not to keep, it kind of threw me a little as i thought everyone prefered them oxidised). The solution - I'm going to make another and oxidise one and leave the other shiny so the public can decide for themselves.
Julie
Well, it appears that my Persian Rose pattern probably wasn't a "Jacqueline Original", because I found a very similar necklace later, called Persian Circles.
Persianl Circles uses the same Full Persina 6-in-1 connectors as Persian Rose, but they are joined together with large rings sitting one inside the other (ala Vertebrae).
I originally made the circles with 16 ga wire, but the AR was too large and the rings started pulling open. I have since replaced them with 14 ga circles.
Jacqueline
http://www.longcanyon.com/yoj/2007.htm
Full blast ahead, trying to catch up with the Year of Jewelry. I'm also preparing inventory for a show in May, one of my rare live shows during the year. This is a technique I haven't used for a while: the underlying frame is made of three wavy pieces of thicker wire. Thinner wire is then woven all over the frame with the beads. Goldfilled wire, vermeil beads and a variety of precious gemmy gems: citrine, tourmalines, amethysts, hessonite, etc.
To see more pictures, read my Journal.
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Eni Oken
http://www.enioken.com
Online Lessons on Jewelry Making
I was never completely happy with this necklace because I didn't like the way the crochet part connected with the multi strand center section until I tried a pair of faceted barrel shaped carnelian stones with a herringbone wrap. This is my first attempt at herringbone (tried a few in copper first) and it could be better but I am happier with the finished look of this necklace now.....
Serpentine (olive jade) rondelles, various silver beads, 24 and 18 gauge, half-hard sterling silver are used in this 17 inch necklace. I had the 'three' piece section in the middle, but I moved it because I thought it looked better not centered. I'm gearing up for some shows so I need to create more pieces. -Nancy
