I know it can be a hard decision to make – Hendricks? Or Bombay Sapphire Gin?
Well, these earrings mean you don’t need to choose as it combines the two gin bottles in one pair of earrings!
Hendricks and Bombay Sapphire Gin
Category: Recycled Glass
New flower earrings
I have loved getting ready for SALA this year, and sharing photos of my work along the way. It’s always nice to see what people respond to, and these little earrings have had lots of positive comments, which has made me think…I’ll probably make them in some other colours soon.
Blue and green should always be seen….
I think so anyway! I love how beautifully these colours work together. They remind me that warmer weather will be here eventually, and we’ll all be able to go swimming again. Sigh….
The beads in this bracelet were made from wine and gin bottles.
SALA 2018
I have now delivered all of the work for 4 SALA exhibitions! I’m really pleased with all of the work I have created for these exhibitions. I hope you get a chance to visit some of them during August.
Here are the details of the exhibitions:
- “Waste not, want not” now showing at Pepper Street Arts Centre on Magill Road. I have a series of Gin and Tonic jewellery on display there.
- “Celebrate” a group exhibition at T’Arts Gallery in Gays Arcade, Adelaide. Colourful rainbow inspired jewellery!
- “Glasblumengarten” at Bethany Wines, Barossa Valley. An exhibition filled with flower inspired pieces.
- “Pattern Clash: waste is a design flaw” opens at The Adelaide Remakery on Friday 3/8 at 6.00pm. Looking forward to seeing what everyone has created!
Installation Day!
Today is installation day for my SALA exhibition at Bethany Wines! I am feeling happy, nervous, and excited! I hope you get a chance to view my work at the winery. I feel like it’s some of my best/prettiest/loveliest work. The theme of the exhibition is “Glasblumengarten” which translates from German to Glass Flower Garden. I have made all sorts of flower garden inspired pieces. This final series of work in the exhibition is “Impressionist Flower Garden” and might end up being my favourite pieces!
Glass Flower Necklaces
I tested out some of the little flower beads a while ago, and was quite pleased with how they turned out. Today I made a necklace! Such a pretty little combination of flowers and colours.
Bead Stick Sculptures
Every now and then I like to do something a bit different from jewellery! This year I have made four bead stick sculptures for the various exhibitions that I am part of.
At The Adelaide Remakery I will have 2 sculptures made from a Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle. I forgot to photograph them before I delivered them, but I think they are really gorgeous! Very eye-catching.
The sculpture pictured below is one of two sculptures heading to Bethany Wines as part of my SALA festival exhibition there. This one was made from the various wine bottles that they use there, and I have stuck the sticks into a 2008 Reserve Shiraz. The other sculpture…well, you might just have to visit to see that one!
Splash of red
I thought I would try something a little bit different today. I was originally planning to put the red beads with some green beads, but then I thought…maybe try the blue beads! Glad I did, this bracelet is super sweet. Perfect with jeans and a red jumper (which I happen to be wearing today)!!
Glass Flower Garden
When I started planning my SALA exhibition at Bethany Wines I was thinking that all of the jewellery had to incorporate glass flowers, as that is what GlassBlumenGarten is – Glass Flower Garden.
But today I went to see the Impressionists at the Art Gallery of South Australia, and it made me realise that the jewellery didn’t have to be all glass flower beads. It could be other beads that look like flowers and gardens. I was so excited that I came home and put this little bracelet together with some of the test beads that I have made (and some others from my recycled glass bead collection).
I have to say…I was really glad I went to see the Impressionists today!!
New to the Gin and Tonic range
I made these earrings this morning, they will be part of the Adelaide Remakery SALA exhibition.
The earrings feature beads that I have made from a Hendricks Gin and Fever-Tree tonic water bottle. I am loving the little splash of red in these earrings!
