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Recycled glass earrings | beads made from a wine bottle

Pretty…

I just wanted to tweak my square/diamond shaped earrings a little bit, so I made these as a more “square” pair of earrings. Of course, square is not the correct…

Recycled glass necklace | blue and brown beads made from various recycled glass objects

Time to play…

Today I had a bit of extra time to sit with my beads and try to work on something “new”. I wasn’t sure what it was going to be. A…

Recycled glass bead bracelet | beads made from gin and tonic water bottles in classic red/black/white colour combination

Trying old ideas…

As much as I love trying new things, I also love going back to colour combinations that I love too! Red, black and white are colours that I have loved…

Recycled glass bead necklace | beads made from wine and gin bottles in earthy tones

Finding a moment…

It has been a fairly busy day here. My son turned 6 today! He has had a little party with his buddies, and they have all just gone home, so…

Recycled glass bead bracelet | beads made from various recycled glass objects in my ode to spring!

Ode to spring

It’s no secret that I dislike winter. It’s just not for me. Give me sunshine and warmth any day. I made this bracelet as a tribute to spring. I was…

Handmade recycled glass bead earrings | red beads made from a tonic water bottle, green beads from wine bottles.

Red and Green?

I am never really sure if you should put red and green together. I think if it’s a particular shade of red and a particular shade of green it is…

Recycled glass bead necklace | beads made from wine and gin bottles

Finding 5 minutes

I’m not entirely sure where today’s necklace is going, it was just an idea that popped in to my head and I thought I would give it a go! Some…

Recycled glass bead earrings | beads made from a wine bottle

Simple leaf earrings

I have been making lots of leaf beads, and I have tried a few different bracelet designs already. See hereĀ and here and here! Today I thought I had better start…

Recycled glass bead bracelet | beads made from wine and gin bottles

Change one thing

I am slightly obsessed by the idea of “changing one thing” at the moment. In this latest series of leaf bracelets I have changed one thing about each design and…

Recycled glass bead bracelet | leaf beads made from wine and gin bottles

Leaf bracelet #2

The previous leaf bracelet might be a bit much for some people, so I thought I would change some of the beads around to make a slightly daintier version of…

Recycled glass bead bracelet | leaf beads made from wine and gin bottles

Leaf bracelet #1

Ever since I made some leaf beads for “Glasblumengarten”, my SALA exhibition at Bethany Wines, I have had a vision for a bracelet that included only leaf beads! This is…

Recycled glass necklace | beads made from a Hendricks and Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle (with a Fever-Tree tonic water bottle bead in between)

Gin and Tonic Pendant

I made this sweet pendant for a gin lover! She liked the Hendricks and Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle beads, so we used both of them in this pendant with a…