Recycled Bead Necklaces

While going through my hoarded stash of beads, wire and all kinds of jewellery making bits for the Bead Hoarders Blog hop I came across a big bag of beads, mostly wooden but a few glass ones thrown in as well! My friend Carol gave me these beads. I don’t know if they were just beads she had bought or if they have been in a necklace before but she said she was sure I would find some use for them. This was many months ago!

Anyway... I have finally made something with the recycled beads. They have been thoroughly cleaned and washed and I think they look nice on adjustable waxed cotton cord. I also used wire which was left over from previous projects where possible. Some extra components I made, or occasionally when it got bent out of shape or scratched and I just put it aside instead of repairing it. Hoarder that I am I rarely throw things away! :-)

These necklaces are available to buy in my on-line shop.

If you have old beads from a broken necklace, or a necklace you are bored with but still like it can be re-strung or made up into a whole new piece of jewellery or accessory. We can talk about it :-)

Comments

UK Inspiration Challenge... "Walk On..."

I came across ArtisanWhimsy on Facebook through MyBeadTherpay ’s Page (I follow Heidi’s work with a passion because she has inspired me to try so many new things and its great to see how wonderfully her work has progressed in the 2 odd years we've been talking bling with each other!) And right there on the front page of the forum was this little banner which took me to a page which said: “Can you create a piece of jewellery or a jewellery component inspired by where the UK Blog team live?” The choices were Dorset / Edinburgh / Bath / The Isle of Wight / Liverpool / Southampton and this is what the description said about Liverpool : image courtesy Wikipedia “ Liverpool is world-famous as the home of The Beatles, but is also well known for football, the Scouse (now there's a term for you non-Brits to look up!) sense of humour and of course, the shipping port and the River Mersey” The description and for various other reasons Liverpool it had t...

Arts and Crafts for Christmas in Grantham

Buy Local, Buy Handmade. Help support your local craft community and small businesses! If you are in Grantham area do check this out! Pop Up Shop at the George Shopping Centre until Saturday, 14th December 2013. Fantastic shopping opportunity for Christmas! I won't be there but many of my artisan friends are including Shedglas Design , Eve Marshall , Pin & Tuck Notice Boards , 1.2.Tree , DL Designs of Rutland and Shelly Anderson

My Kuala Lumpur Challenge Earrings

And here is my entry for Dini Bruinsma's Blogger Non Blogger Photo inspiration Challenge on Bead Soup Cafe. The two things that immediately struck me about the challenge picture are the vivid colours that show up against the dark brown to black background and the prominent rounded shapes. So I used multicolour freshwater pearls in shades of orange, yellow, red and brown with a few greens too and twisted them on silver plated copper wire to make funky hoops for earrings. Good Luck everyone taking part!

Patina Challenge You Say? OK...

Those of you who follow my ramblings on the internet ( Facebook , twitter , blogs , etc. ) should know about my famous torch by now! And if you don't: Dremel Versaflame Torch + Copper = Fun! So when I came across the Patina Sunset Challenge on Artisan Whimsy I understandably got just a little bit excited :-) I have been playing with patina on copper by painting all kinds of copper bits with fire. Sometimes satisfied, mostly not, many times I have started again but generally its been a learning exercise that I know will do me good! I made these bangles. They are OK... Actually they are pretty good for a first attempt but Can do better! Then I played some more and used the same copper pipes that I used in the bangles above to make some earrings. They turned out all right. I liked the way the colours came out. And I think they should fit in well with all the horseshoes at Oakham Castle at my next show there. Horseshoe Earrings made with copper tubes, flame painted...

Textured Copper Heart Pendant

Textured Copper Heart Pendant : One off Copper Pendant made from a small piece of sheet copper.I used a texturing hammer to give the blank sheet of copper a pattern, used my jeweller 's saw to cut in into a heart shape and put it through liver of sulphur for an antiqued finish.The pendant will be sent on a black plated chain with a lobster clasp.

Jewellery By Shalini

Search This Blog