Category: Recycled Glass

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

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 days it is so tempting to not make something, to put this daily making project on hold and work on other things on my to do list. But it’s days like today, when my to-do list is getting longer by the minute, and I don’t really know where I am going to find the time to get everything done as it is, they are the days when it makes the most sense to sit down and make something. I knew this daily challenge was going to be difficult at times, and I know I have missed the window for photographing objects at times (it has been dark when I finally got around to making something). But every day I spend making something, taking the time to sit with my beads and my thoughts and make something…I just never know what I am going to get, and I’m always glad I made the time!

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

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Change one thing

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

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 created a completely different bracelet.

In the world we live in we are currently bombarded with ideas for change. Eat this, do this, buy these products – blah, blah, blah. You could never take it all on board. But you can change one little thing and see what happens.

Like here, we have started growing some of our own vegetables and fruit. It has been lovely every time we have cooked something from our garden. Makes us feel good, and it tastes good too!

What changes have you made lately? I would love to hear about them.

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

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This morning…

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

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 together yet another combination of beads I said to myself “what’s the worst thing that can happen?” I didn’t have an answer.

I made these earrings from gin, wine and champagne bottles. If someone likes them and wants to buy them, that is a bonus! If they never sell then there might come a time when I take them apart and use the beads in other projects. Nothing too terrible there at all.

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

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Pretty colour combinations

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

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 that has a blue/black striped middle section, and purple/pink stripes on one sleeve, and yellow/grey stripes on the other sleeve.

On the other hand…well, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, and you kind of have to be a bit careful about how you do it. Or maybe that’s just my thoughts on it, which are not totally valid, because I haven’t really tested them too much.

So, I am trying to stretch my ideas about mixing colours by putting together some combinations of colours that I wouldn’t normally put together. Yesterday’s earrings are a great example of that stretch!

Today I thought I would stretch again by putting some bright blue (Bombay Sapphire Gin) beads back with some pretty purple beads.  Hmmm….I quite like this. It’s pretty and fresh, and different.

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