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Recycled glass earrings | handmade glass beads made from a sake bottle

Is this useful – post #1

I love that people are starting to look at their glass bottles before they throw them out. I am often asked “is this useful?” This week I am sharing a…

Recycled glass earrings | pretty earrings made from a wine bottle

Up early

I do like to get up early. I feel like my brain resets to 100% over night, like a good night’s sleep recharges it fully! And as the day goes…

Recycled glass earrings | pretty earrings made from a wine bottle

2 more

Today I made two more pairs of earrings ready for Friday! On Friday morning newsletter subscribers will get a special offer in their inbox….are you subscribed??

Recycled glass earrings | colourful earrings made from a wine bottle

Making for my newsletter subscribers

I am spending the week making earrings for my online shop. I’ll have eight pairs of earrings ready by Friday, and newsletter subscribers will receive a special offer in their…

Recycled glass necklace | heart-shaped bead made from a wine bottle

Today’s heart-shaped pendant

Today I thought I would see what the heart-shaped pendants look like with a touch of frit to add some colour to the bead. I quite like how this turned…

Recycled glass necklace | heart-shaped pendant made from a wine bottle

Day 243

I did some calculations the other day and it turns out that Day 243 of a 365 day project is about two-thirds of the way through the project (or 66.65%…

Recycled glass heart bead | bead made from a wine bottle

Heart challenge

There was so much to love about the artist demonstration at Pepper Street on Saturday. I loved the conversations about glass. And I loved that one visitor brought in some…

Recycled glass earrings | beads made from a Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle and an orange cup!

My most essential tool…

Is this pair of long tweezers!  These tweezers are used every single time I have to make a bead from recycled glass. You see, I have to warm the glass…

Recycled glass earrings | beads made from a wine bottle, decorated with red/pink frit

What is frit?

I get asked “what is frit” quite a lot. It’s really just smashed up glass that I can use in small amounts to add colour to some of the beads…

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

Dreaming of blue skies and swimming pools

Winter is nearly over! Hooray! I’m starting to dream about days when it’s warm enough to go to the swimming pool again. We have blue skies here today, it is…