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Day 198. Last year my SALA exhibition featured jewellery made only from recycled glass bottles that were blue. This limitation/restriction helped me to be creative in different ways – different shaped beads, different additions like enamelled copper and blue rubber tube. This year I am lifting all restrictions on my work! It makes it both easier and harder to be creative! Easier, because I can do whatever I like. Harder, because it still needs to be a cohesive exhibition and sometimes too much freedom can make it tricky to start things! I have the opportunity to tell three different stories in this exhibition and I have worked out two of them. With two weeks to go I am wondering what the third story will be? I am trusting that I will work it out soon. Anyway, these earrings are from my ocean inspired story, and I have used some copper tubes leftover from last years exhibition, and added some new enamels to make them even more layered in colours.

Day 197. Loving all of the colours and shapes coming through for my exhibition. Can’t wait to see it all together! Not long now til setup.

Day 196. I did make more wave beads and mixed them with freshwater pearls in earrings, a bracelet and a necklace.

 

Day 195. While I was making wave beads the other day I wondered what they would look like with two shades of transparent glass, so I made a few test beads and I really like how they turned out. Definitely going to make some more of these.

Day 194. I love it when ideas just take hold and it becomes exciting to try new ways of making them work. I am really liking the drops under the beads at the moment, and was curious to see what pearls and beads would look like. With 2 beads I don’t really need the ring holding them together, and I like the shortened version. These wave beads will be a feature in my SALA exhibition at @stationmaster5255 gallery and I have been making them in all sorts of colours and combinations of colours!! Thank you @salafestival for going ahead this year!

Day 193. You know me, I like to take an idea and try it a few ways. This is a different version of yesterday’s earrings with the feature bead made from a Tanqueray Gin bottle and the smaller beads made from Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire Gin and a clear tonic bottle too.

Day 192. With three weeks remaining until I install my SALA exhibition at @stationmaster5255gallery in Strathalbyn, it’s safe to say things are a bit hectic here, but I am enjoying the process of putting this exhibition together. It’s really quite different from other exhibitions where I have had all sorts of restrictions. Freedom to do whatever I want can also be a little bit intimidating! This pair of earrings feature beads made from wine and gin bottles, with enamelled copper tube.

Day 191. I was thinking about yesterday’s earrings, and wondering if I could use the same flower beads in bracelets and pendants too. Turns out you can, and they look rather cute and a little bit different used that way. Glad I tried something a bit different.

Day 190. I have not used flower beads like this before, and today I am wondering why?! So cute.

Day 189. Weird, I could totally picture these in my head, but when I got home to make them they didn’t quite work in the colours I had imagined! I started playing around with some other colours though and they looked better. Also, didn’t quite nail the hook part, not yet. Will keep trying. A work in progress.