Red and Silver Earrings

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Some great inspirational pieces in this book to help create some realy beautiful statement pieces of jewellery.

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Earring tutorial

Follow the directions below to make these earrings.

1.        Place 10 beads on a line of wire.

2.    Bring two ends of wire together to form a drop.

3.       Pull the 2 strands of wire you brought together through an 11^th bead.

4.       Take one end of the wire you threaded through the beads and bend it over to form a loop. Re-thread the wire through your 11^th bead and into a couple more beads down the side, Finish by fastening with a crimp bead and then add a shepherd hook.

Peacock Feathers

I had these feathers left over from another craft and thought I'd put them to good use. I love the colours in peacock feather and I thinks these plumes make a real statement piece of jewellery.

Back to it...

Before finishing work to go on maternity leave I was under the false impression that I would have all the time in the world to indulge in all my hobbies while looking after my daughter... what was I thinking! It has been 13 weeks since I had my daughter and these are the first pieces of jewellery I've made. I'm sure as time goes on I'll be able to start producing more pieces regularly, but at the moment I'm more then happy just to spend the time enjoying my little baby girl.

I made these earrings by manipulating wire and adding a green glass bead. These are easy to make and produce a unique piece.

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.