Month: May 2020

Day 132. Checking to see how my other favourite shape for earrings works with the freshwater pearls…definitely works. Love the colour of these recycled glass beads made from a Skyy Vodka bottle.

Day 131. I played with yesterday’s design a little bit to create a slight longer, more dangly earring with a square hook. Today’s green bead was made from a @bethanywines_barossa Chardonnay bottle.

Day 130. Combining two of my favourite things today…freshwater pearls and Hendricks Gin Limited Release recycled glass beads. Every time I think that I will use this particular shape of bead to make earrings I think to myself “you should make more like this.” It is such an elegant shape for earrings.

Day 129. Darker pearls paired back with sparkling silver recycled wine bottle beads.

Day 128. Beautiful grey pearls! Love how they look with the @bethanywines_barossa wine bottle beads. Perfect for a dressed up date night! The necklace is a mix of wine bottle beads and freshwater pearls.

Day 127. I’ve had this seed of an idea in my mind for a few months now, and I was just about to start making it happen when everything basically got shut down, and I didn’t have the energy for it. But, I feel like there is a light starting to glow at the end of this rather challenging tunnel, and I am working on this idea again. The beads in these earrings and bracelet were made from @bethanywines_barossa wine bottles. I have added some freshwater pearls into the mix, and I especially love how the bracelet turned out. Will definitely be making more.

Day 126. Inspired by the colours I am wearing today (brown cord jeans and a purple jumper) and somehow becoming my favourite gin and tonic jewellery combinations! The bottom bead is made from a Fever-Tree tonic bottle, middle bead is from a Hendricks Original Gin and the small top bead is from a Hendricks Limited Release Gin bottle. Yum!

Day 125. Love the mix of greens in these earrings, along with the etched and shininess! Beads made from @bethanywines_barossa bottles. Hoping we get to visit again soon!

Day 124. Sometimes it’s just nice to put different colours and textures together.

Day 123. This morning I didn’t have a lot of time to make a pair of earrings. I had to get ready to go out for the day, and I had slept in, and I was behind schedule a bit, so I went to my studio and started looking at beads and I have to admit, I was starting to get a bit stressed because I had challenged myself to make a pair of earrings every day, and I needed to do that! I was scratching through all of my bowls of beads, kind of worrying about what I would make. Then I shook my head and thought “you have to make a pair of earrings, but they don’t have to be the most amazing pair of earrings ever made in the history of earrings!” So I took a deep breath and had another look at my recent batch of beads and thought I would put a slightly different shape together with them, and you know what? I quite like what I have done, today it works.