All about red #4
A recap of Colour Play this month: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3. This final week I have made an asymmetrical red bracelet, and a pair of earrings that will…
Long + Swingy + Sparkly
= my kind of earrings! The beads were made from a champagne bottle, and the long tubes are copper that I have enamelled. I love the shades of green. I…
Mixed green recycled glass bracelet
I have mixed up beads from champagne, beer and wine bottles in this green bracelet. The recycled glass beads work well together, and I like how the drop beads sit…
Monochrome Recycled Glass Earrings
I have been having a lot of fun playing with the beads that I made from a Hendricks Gin and Banrock Station bottle. They work together so nicely! I couldn’t…
Monochrome bracelet
I have been loving getting my seed beads out this year, it’s been a long time since I have played with them! Anyway, here’s a bracelet to match the necklace…
Hendricks Gin bottle necklace
Firstly, a big thanks to everyone who sends me their empty gin bottles! I really do appreciate the effort you make to get them to me. Secondly, the necklace I…
The cutest yellow earrings…
Remember that yellow vase from yesterday? Well, I had some beads leftover after finishing the bracelet, so I decided to make a pair of earrings with the smallest of the…
When a vase is no longer a vase….
…the other day my friend Jenny gave me a vase that was no longer able to function as a vase. She thought I might like the glass to make beads…
All about red #3
Last week it was all about the seed beads. Oh, and the beautiful red glass beads in between all of those lovely seed beads! This week, it’s all about the…
Green recycled glass bracelet
I love how the light sparkles through this bracelet! I have made the beads from a mixture of wine and beer bottles. I have decorated the beads with smashed up…
Cheers! Here’s to recycling…
I am given lots of old bottles from all sorts of people, and I really love that people are using me like a recycling bin. Sometimes it takes me a…
Playing with recycled glass beads
I have to admit, it’s lovely when I have a bunch of beads here and I can just start playing with them, putting them together this way and that way.…