I love trying different ways of making this style of earrings. The gold sparkle on the Coopers Sparkling Ale glass is so pretty and makes a lovely contrast to the plain beads.
Coopers Sparkling Ale earrings
Category: Recycled Glass
Hendricks Gin bottle necklace
I love it when people get in touch and ask me to make them something special. The beads in this necklace were made from a Hendricks Gin bottle.
Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle hearts
Just had to share these sweet little Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle hearts.
A heck of a week…
Well, it’s been a heck of a week here, and I needed a little break from things to recover. I am reminded once again that I have two choices when it comes to dealing with tough stuff in my life: I can curl up in a ball and cry myself to sleep or I can choose to be strong and believe that everything happens for a reason and try to find the silver lining. The beads in this bracelet were made from a Banrock Station wine bottle.
Not quite the worst day ever, but pretty close….
I’m not going to lie. Today will make it into the top 5 of my worst days ever! I thought about not making something today, but then I thought maybe it would make me feel better. It hasn’t made my day any better, but it has helped me remember that life goes on.
Leftover earring beads
I think I posted about this recently with a different bracelet. But I do like having beads leftover after making earrings, because they make such pretty bracelets! I love the shape of these beads, and all of the colours just work together beautifully. These beads were made from a Banrock Station wine bottle.
100 earrings
Today I set up my window display at T’Arts (in Gays Arcade, off Adelaide Arcade). I made 100 pairs of earrings! They are a mix of Italian and recycled glass beads. If you’re in Adelaide I hope you’ll pop in and see the display. A big thanks to my husband for helping me make the displays.
Gin and Tonic earrings
I’m in the middle of getting lots and lots of earrings ready for my window display at T’Arts, which I’ll be setting up after I finish my shift there tomorrow.
These earrings, made from gin and tonic bottles, are 3 of the pairs that will be available. I’m hoping to get 100 pairs made! Still lots of work to do…
7 day challenge – Day 7
It’s day 7 of the challenge to use the purple recycled wine bottle beads. Today I’ve done something a bit different. I like the way these necklaces hang, they are going to be perfect for the warmer days ahead!
That’s the end of that mini challenge! I wasn’t sure at first if I could come up with 7 days of different ideas, but that’s kind of the reason why I like these little challenges….because they push you to come up with different ideas. It doesn’t mean they all work as ideas, but it is nice to try them and see what happens.
7 day challenge – Day 6
I thought I would try something a bit different with the beads today. I popped them at the bottom of the necklace, and added some lovely green recycled glass beads around them. I love how the purple beads sit at the bottom of a necklace, just makes it a little bit more interesting. I would probably add more beads to this necklace at some stage. I think it needs a bit more purple mixed in and around the green beads.
