A simple wirework pendant this week, worked in copper with a lovely swarovski bead in a great colour.
I wanted to make something simple that could be explained in just words- a lot of my pieces in the coming weeks will also feature pieces that fit that category.
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As I posted a week or so again, I am far behind due to a teething and newly crawling baby. I'll be making 3 weeks in 1 for the next couple!
Shaggy loop earrings with twisted and plain rings.
We recently had Mother's Day here in the UK and this is what I gave to my mum as a gift. Gold Fill and Sterling.
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A couple of weeks ago, somebody on the UK Beaders Forum had posted a lovely memory wire bracelet using rubber tubing and crystals. It was such a simple but incredibly effective idea.
I decided to give it a go using larger beads to see how different it could look. On this bracelet I used some AB Glass tiles and some silver foiled round beads. I also tried it out using some cane glass beads, but this is my favourite becasue if the shiny beads. Pictures on my blog.
Julie
This ring was actually made before the amethyst one posted in Week 6, but I just got things mix-up a little and forgot to post it. I like the lattice-work, but it took a long time to make. I think I should have made it with gold-filled wire to match the rutilation inside the crystal. I also think the ring is too big for my small hands... I've been wearing it, but I look like a decadent hippie gone bad with it, LOL.
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My humble apologies for going missing for a month. A few weeks back, my wrist started giving me fits and I was forced to severely curb the blocks of time I spent working on projects. Since there was so little time, and so many deadlines, I only worked on what mattered most to me and wasn't willing to post any old thing just to be on time or theme. These wired beaded beads are my new passion. I have so many designs in my head for them it isn't funny. All 3 of these are fairly large - over 1 1/2 inches and have lots of different beads involved. If you look closely, you'll see that the form of my silver bead from an earlier week is echoed in the yellow bead - but it is roughly 3 times as large LOL You'll probably get very sick of these from me, but please bear with the repetition. I'm growing a concept......Comments and critiques are most welcome - be as frank as you wish, I can take it, honest. Perri
Stormy weather... Battle of the elements.
The daylight suddenly turns dark, the white clouds are grey and the sky breaks.
I illustrated this theme with a simple knotted necklace featuring black and white beads.
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OK, I didn't make this in week 7. I didn't even make it any time CLOSE to week 7. I made it fourteen or fifteen years ago, and I've been worrying about what had happened to it, and looking for it for a couple of years, and I FOUND it in week 7! And I'm so happy to have it back, and so pleased with it, that I'm posting it anyway. Besides, I didn't make any jewelry at all that week, so this will just have to do.
Back when I first got into lapidary, and then into jewelry-making, I collected this chalcedony in West Texas, near the Big Bend. I cut the cab in the workshop I used to have at home, and I made the brooch in my class at the Craft Guild of Dallas. The upper part is heavily ammonia-patinated copper, formed in a hydraulic press, with a flat piece soldered on the back to hold the long pin-stem. The suspended bezel is sterling. The whole thing is nearly four inches across.
I gave it to my mother, who was very pleased with it, and often wore it pinned to one of her handsome jackets that she made for herself. Since she was confined to bed I searched for it now and then, looking through the jewelry drawer and checking the jackets in the closet. But I never could locate it, and was afraid it had gotten lost somehow. Then when I was getting together the jewelry she had made, to exhibit it at her memorial celebration, there this was in front of my face, under a largish stained-glass pendant in the jewelry tray. Don't see how I had missed it.
The main thing it says to me, is how much craft and technique I have given up over the last few years. Beadwork and wirework that you can do on your lap or on the dining room table is all very well, but I used to be able to do THIS. And I had better get my life and my environment arranged so I can do so again, or I will have really lost something.
Simple earrings for this week, I like the colour's though.
Sarah.
Another piece of jewelry for the same wedding as last week's piece, but a different cousin...
I used 15 different crystal colors in the purple and blue family to make this Shaggy Loops bracelet.
Jacqueline
