I have been loving putting together jewellery with the brown/green tones. This bracelet is made with beads that I have made from wine, beer, champagne and gin bottles!!
Loving the brown/green recycled glass combination
Month: July 2018
Wine bottle beads
The thing I love about clear wine bottles is that you can do so many things with them. Yes, I can make clear beads and I often do make clear beads. But I can also get my frit out, which is really just crushed glass, and while the bead is still hot I can roll it in the frit, then melt it in and make really wildly colourful glass beads like these!
I had intended for these beads to go into a different project but when I saw them all sitting on my desk together I thought…maybe I’ll try putting them together. Glad I tried!
All from a broken cup…
Remember that broken orange cup from last week? I made these earrings and this necklace from the cup.
I had also made a bunch of small round beads to test out the glass and see how it reacted in the flame. They have been sitting on my workbench for a little while now, and today I thought I would try to make a bracelet with them.
I moved beads in and out, and around, and back in again until I finally landed on something I quite liked. Here it is…
Gin and Tonic bracelet
I am going through a bit of a gin and tonic phase this year! I am really enjoying working with the beads, and loving the contrast in the glass.
This bracelet features beads made from a Hendricks Gin and Fever-Tree Tonic water bottle.
Colour Play Recap – June
This month I tried a new technique! I used sterling silver wire to make big rings, then I hand-textured them with a special hammer to get the beautiful finish on the rings. I made several new earrings for my exhibition in Penola, and they got such a lovely response that I decided to make 8 pairs of earrings with Italian glass for a variety of colours and shapes and finishes! Here is a recap of all of the earrings that I made for June.
I’m busy getting some new pieces finalised for July. The newsletter should be out later this week! Stay tuned.
Needs more red…
After I finished making yesterday’s necklace I thought to myself: looks nice, needs more red! I got on the torch and made some beads using the tonic water bottles, added some red frit, and then used them in this necklace.
