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The collection is growing…

Hello! This is me in my fancy didymium glasses that I use when I am making glass beads! The filter lets me see the bead through the flame, it would be nearly impossible to make beads without them. I have been making beads for a really long time. I think it was 2001 when I did my first glass bead making class, and it literally changed my life! In 2009 I started making beads from recycled glass. My life changed that year by having a baby, and it shifted the focus of my making too. I still love making beads with Italian glass too because of all the gorgeous colours. Honestly, I can’t ever see myself not making beads or jewellery. I have been making jewellery for over 30 years now, and every day it still brings me a lot of happiness. There’s always something new to try, a new colour combination, a new tool, a new idea. Here’s to the next 30 years!

Did you know? I have to wear special safety glasses when making glass beads. Didymium glasses have a filter that lets me see through all of the orange flame and just focus on the bead that I am making.

Some new recycled glass necklaces and bracelets featuring beads made from an assortment of blue and green bottles heading to @naomischwartzjewellerydesign gallery in Henley Beach. Looks like a beautiful weekend for a beach trip too!

If you love shiny and etched beads, and if you are like me, and you can’t decide which finish you like best, then these earrings are great because they combine the two! I love the simple contrast of shiny and etched beads, I love that the same glass can look so different. These earrings feature beads made from a Banrock Station Wine Bottle.

Autumn/winter is the perfect time to wear stud earrings. They are a lovely little addition to layers of clothing and chunky scarves. Both of these stud earrings have been made from a Moët champagne bottle, with one pair left shiny and one pair etched for a matt finish.

Sometimes you need to walk away from your first attempts at putting a new idea together, have a holiday on the Yorke Peninsula, and then come back with fresh inspiration and some new ways of making this necklace. I grew up on the Yorke Peninsula, and whenever I go back I just feel happy and content. The vegetation on the coastline is so beautiful, and the break helped me to rethink my first prototype for this necklace. Lots more colour and movement, more abstract flower styles, I am looking forward to finishing this one soon.

Another gift combo idea. This necklace features beads made from Hendrick’s original and midsummer solstice gin bottles (dark brown and dark purple) along with Fever-Tree tonic bottles.

Maybe gin is more your mum’s thing? How about a pair of earrings featuring beads made from a Hendrick’s Gin bottle?

This may be more your mum’s style. A necklace made with recycled glass beads from gin, tonic and champagne bottles! Turns out that Chambord can be used to make gin cocktails too! A simple pair of earrings from a champagne bottle certainly adds some wow factor!