I have just listed some new Peroni beer bottle jewellery. Both my Etsy shop and my online shop have been updated with new products. I love the Peroni beer bottle colour. It’s not quite the Pantone 2017 colour of the year, but it’s close, and it has a real vibrancy and freshness to it.
It’s always fun to look back and see what photos resonated for people. This is the Top 9 photos from Instagram for 2016 for me. A lot of recycled glass in there! Thanks for liking what I do.
I love the concept of upcycling! The idea of reusing what is essentially something destined for the bin, and creating an entirely new product from that.
I’ve experimented with many, many ways of making beads from recycled glass, and over the years I have found that letting the colour of the glass shine through is what appeals to me the most!
I am very fond of the Skyy Vodka bottles and the beads that I make from that. One of the prettiest necklaces that I make is this one, where one of the strands of beads is shiny, and the other is etched for contrast. They are simple, elegant , and really beautiful necklaces.
One of the first recycled glass bottles that I started using was a Banrock Station Sparkling White Shiraz! Yes, the drink is quite nice, but the environmental messages from Banrock Station are also very important. They are extremely eco-conscious in their company, and I love that. It matches with my philosophy on recycling and being aware of the impact we are having on the environment.
This jewellery set shows off the beautiful colour of the Banrock Station wine bottle perfectly. It’s an ice blue tone that looks great on a lot of skin colours.
Tomorrow night the annual Flame On exhibition at Kirra Galleries opens. If you are in Melbourne at any time over the next month, it’s definitely worth popping in and having a look.
This year my work was done around the theme of coral and the environmental issues that the Great Barrier Reef is going through. All of my beads were made from recycled glass. I made 3 series of work, all slightly different.
This is the first series. The beads were made from a clear wine bottle, and decorated with green/blue frit (smashed up glass).
This week’s colour play is all about gold and silver metal. For the gold beads I have used gold leaf on a beer bottle to make the beads! And the silver beads have fine silver wire and silver foil on a wine bottle! Quite the contrast from last week’s silver and gold jewellery!
For my “inexclusive” exhibition at Cats in the Loft I decided to try some new ways of making recycled glass necklaces and earrings. Usually I stick with one type of glass, creating the whole necklace with the same colour. But this time I mixed it up a little bit…
I’m working on a new range of jewellery for Kirra Galleries Flame on 2016. The exhibition will run from September 8 until October 8 at the gallery in Federation Square, Melbourne.
This work has been inspired by the plight of the Great Barrier Reef. I’ll tell you more about it closer to the date, but for now, here is a necklace made from a wine bottle, where I have “added” colour to the clear glass.
Oh, wow, my new work is featured on the new marketplace for ethically produced items in Australia – MIAS Market (click on link to visit).
I have made several new Bombay Sapphire Gin pieces of jewellery, and discounted them too! Well worth checking out!
