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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…

Recycled glass earrings | handmade glass beads made from gin, wine and champagne bottles

This morning…

This morning I think I put about 20 different combinations of recycled glass beads together. I was over-thinking the design BIG time, and it wasn’t much fun. As I put…

Recycled glass earrings | contrasting beads made from wine and gin bottles

Pretty colour combinations

I think I might have mixed feelings about mixing colours! On the one hand, I love it and I love wearing mixed colours. I am sitting here with a jumper…

Recycled glass earrings | beads made from a Bombay Sapphire Gin and tonic water bottle.

Pretty gin and tonic earrings

I made this bracelet recently. I liked how the red and blue beads mixed together. I thought a pair of earrings might work well, so I was glad that I…

Recycled glass beads | handmade glass beads made from a wine bottle are using in this cute eco-bracelet.

Green Wine Bottle Bracelet

I had some leftover beads from my SALA exhibition at Bethany Wines, so I thought I would try a different type of bracelet. I am loving the textures and shapes…