Bookmark

I love reading and always have a book on the go, despite this I always seem to be short of a book mark when I need one. Those free cardboard ones never last two minutes and I'm forever loosing them, so I thought I nice beaded bookmark would last forever and be hard to loose. I think these make great gifts, here is a beaded bookmark design I'd like to try.

My daughter is due in a week so recently I have become obsessed with making Kanzashi flowers for headbands for her. This led to me finding this great origami butterfly design, that I thought would look really nice as a pendant on a necklace.

Cherry Crush

Looking through a jewellery design magazine I found inspiration to make these very delicious looking earrings. It took me ages to find the round beads in the right red to create this design but eventually I came across them. I'd like to add a silver leaf to the earings below.

Earrings

I went bead shopping recently to my local shop, here are some of the earrings I made with the beads I brought.

The clear glass beads with the lace effect detail are gorgeous! I made some various designs recently using these beads and have been asked to make some more of these earrings because they are really liked.

              These gold designs are very simple, but it seems to be the simplest designs that sell the quickest.

manipulating silver wire

Lately I've been enjoying manipulating silver wire as part of my jewellery designs to add an extra unique feature. I don't know why it isn't something I've done much before but I have also started to wrap beads in silver wire to create pendants. Here are some of the pieces I have made recently.

Simple and beautiful

I love this heart bead, the rose picture set into the glass is really delicate and elegant.

there so beautiful!

After spending the day on the sofa unwell I stumbled across a great channel selling gemstone beads. I thought being gemstones they would all be really expensive but was surprised to find them very reasonably priced. How I went this long without knowing jewellery maker is beyond me. Check out their website and have a look at the lovely beads.

Pretty 'n' Pink

A Necklace for my Mum.

I am my Mum's personal jewellery designer, so when she found some cheap clearance necklaces she brought them for me to take apart and re-design into something she'd like. Sometimes you get the best beads from old second hand necklaces you find in a charity shop or as my mum done, in clearance bins.

Green and gold earrings

Green Earrings

Somebody asked me if I could make them a pair of green earrings that weren't too long. I found some beautiful mint Chinese beads with pink detail and made the above.