Someone asked me recently if I could make earrings from niobium. I did a little search of the jewellery suppliers where I get some of my findings and managed to find several different colours. This is the first pair that I have made. I like the contrast in the ear-wires, and the way it works with the beads that were made from a Hendricks Gin bottle. Really adds to the design.
I have been playing around with some ideas for a pretty little charm bracelet. Assorted recycled glass beads in all sorts of pretty colours.
I don’t normally feel compelled to make earrings to match a necklace, but as I was putting yesterday’s necklace together, I had these beads on my table, so this morning I thought…let’s see! Definitely not colours that I normally put together but I find myself really liking them.
Well it’s definitely winter here! I have been doing a lot of driving lately and it has been quite lovely to watch the paddocks turn from brown to green. This necklace is inspired by the changing season. Using beads made from beer, wine and champagne bottles, I think it captures the change from brown paddocks through to lush green fields quite nicely.
It’s so cold here at the moment. We were driving around yesterday and the temperature was something like 7 degrees. This was during the DAY! Really!
Anyway, I have been feeling a bit icy, so I made a pair of earrings to reflect that feeling. I love clear earrings, they tend to pick up and reflect different colours which makes them really interesting.
I quite like how this one turned out.
I’m quietly in a phase of trying new things. Some things are working, some things are not working so well. What I am LOVING is that I am not judging, I am just making, making, trying, trying something else, creating….it’s a lovely daily practice.
I wasn’t sure how this necklace was going to turn out. I couldn’t quite picture it in my mind. So I tried it, and well, I’m still not sure about it, but it might lead to new things, so that’s a good thing!
I wanted to make some smaller earrings today so I tested two different styles of earrings using these smaller recycled glass beads. The pair on the left are quite dangly and swingy! The pair on the right sit nicely under the ear and don’t tend to move.
