Shells, beads, wire...

Hiya peeps!!!

I was playing with wires again :)

Before another craft fair and during craft fair too :)

My son found big piece of shell on the beach in Blyth and I decided to use it...

I found customer for it very very quickly :) Pendant was fixed on nice copper chain for lovely Anita who organizing our craft fairs (not only in Blyth) and is huge fan of big, chunky pendants :)

Here few other pieces I made (excluding silly beach pebble necklaces as have no pics of them...)

Have few more shells and lots of sea glass in the bag to play with so...

Stay tune 😁.

Till next post friends!

More crafting

Hiya peeps!

Today fast post...

My latest pieces - made yesterday and today.

Bit of light hammering on 3 above pieces.

Silly wire wrapping on floral/leafy designs :)

And here totally silly free form piece for myself LOL!

That's all for now.

Till next post Friends!

Craft fairs and crafty friends

Hiya peeps!

I'm after first craft fair this year... Nothing spectacular... weather didn't help us at all...

We had so great bunch of people with great variety of things for sale and unfortunately not too many customers...

Hmmm was it weather or people just stopping to bother about Valentine's Day?

No matter answer.. we had lots of fun :)

I made these few pieces between chatting with other there:

On the end of day Wendy, girl making resin jewellery (very beautiful pieces by the way) gave me sparkly cabouchon made by her from resin 'to play with' as she said :)

I couldn't say: no! I took it and did that:

Wendy saw pic on my FB already and her reaction was: That's what I call a great collaboration!

Agree with her :)

Check her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendygarratt.art/ and https://www.instagram.com/missdelightful/.

That's all for today!

Till next post!

Playing with...

Hiya Friends!

Aww yeah! Today playing with shapes, chains and beads 😊.

Swirls with amethysts

Chains and seed beads

Glass beads and ammonite shaped earrings. 

What to make next???

Don't know yet...

Till next post!!!

Filigree?

Hiya peeps!!!

I made few little heart shapes... and decided to..

Add seed beads in few colours - pinks and grey-ish

Only green seed beads

Chain and triangle shaped beads.

Not sure which pair I like best...

What do you think?

Till next post!

Hearts, hearts 😊

Hiya!!!

More hearts, more Valentines makes 😁.

These look nice with bright green faceted glass beads.

Decided to add lilac seed beads to these ones as looked bit 'flat' for me...

Should finished few cards which awaiting my attention... hmmm... bad girl me really hahahaha!

Till next post peeps!

More Valentine's makes

Hiya Friends!

Today few more pieces I made with Valentine's craft fair in my mind.

Still playing with copper :)

Working with it slowly coming back to me :)

Kinda Celtic heart shape

Hearts duo

Hearts with semi-precious stones.

What do you think about them?

Till next post!

Back to jewellery making!

Hiya peeps!

That was very long break from jewellery making! DT jobs for card making and ... puppy 😊. She's still silly little thing, but if I am careful enough she'll not try to eat my beads, threads, wires etc 😁😁😁.

Since November last year I'm trying to sell my makes on craft fairs, not easy, but defo selling more then online (by the way - I closed my etsy shop).

Soon Valentines, so... I decided to make few new pieces of jewellery not only cards.

Easy one:

More advanced, hihihi :

Almost nightmare after over 2 years without playing with wire wrapping techniques:

What do you think about them?

That's all for today! 

Till next post friends! 

Lazy Tobisia :)

Gee looks like I have long breaks between my posts, bad, bad girl me....

Feel very lazy lately and is really hard to see me crafting...

Fact I made few cards lately... customer order from France - Christmas cards with fairies.

Fact I added earrings to one of my bracelets - customer asked for it before purchase.

I spent bit of time with wires and even made few nice pieces :) Sorry for pics tho, but sometimes is really hard to take good photo of jewellery.

Asymmetrical with amethyst

Another bit asymmertical piece with amethyst

Heart shaped pendant with amethyst - already listed for sale in my etsy shop:https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/464794408/copper-necklacependant-heart?ref=shop_home_active_3

I hope my inspiration mode will back soon and I'll make few more pieces to show you :)

That's all for today friends! Till next post :)

Half-hard or soft wire?

Good question :)

From my practicing I can say: half-hard for learning and later on for frames, soft for trying, experimenting and enjoying of making beautiful pieces :)

Really!

Last week I bought soft wire, but when waiting for it, I was still playing with the rest of half-hard I had.

Results:

Single green-purple bead in triangle shaped frame - pendant

Free-form green-purple earrings

Triangle shaped pendant with 2 green-purple beads.

Yesterday I received my wire and almost straight away I took it in my hands to make something. What do you think about pendants I made so far?

Swirly with creamy glass pearl

Blue crackle beads and porcelain grey bead combo

Light pink beach stone

Purple marbled glass bead and purple glass bead combo.

Pendants are not massive, just around 2.5 cm - the smallest and about 4 cm the biggest, but that's good size for start I think :)

Practicing, practicing :)

Hiya!

Practice makes perfect - people says... True!

So I'm trying my best to practicing as much as it's possible :)

Wire weaving is not easy, specially when wire don't want cooperate...

Copper is very easy to deal with, doesn't matter soft or half-hard, brass wire is totally different story... I have 0.6 mm half-hard - for sure not good for weaving, but ok for some kinds of framing if I can called it that way :). Not easy for making coils, but when you make coil - keeps shape perfectly :).

Copper and brass with green marbled glass bead - pendant

Purple marbled beads in copper/brass hearts :) You can find them here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/457042228/purple-heart-set-wirewrapped-heart-set?ref=shop_home_active_1

Single blue seed bead and swirls - pendant - made today morning :)

Really need more chain or suede for my pendants and more ear wires :) So many ideas is still sitting in my head :) Sorry if I'm not grammatical ;)

Geometry and... sweeteaters :)

Hiya!

Hmmm... geometry is inspirational for jewellery making people, that's what I'm sure of, cause even if I don't like maths - squares, triangles and circles are used in every piece I saw or made by myself :)

Even with limited time I'm trying to play with wires and practicing geometric shapes is good fun, cause you never know with what you really finish :)

Diamond like shape pendant with orange-red marbled glass bead

Crazy triangle shaped pendant with green-bluish glass beads dangles

'Square snail' set with green glass pearl:)

Plus some deserts somewhere between my 'wire playing' moments :)

Coconut and peach trifle with lots of choco drops :)

Choco cake with plums and redcurrants and chocolate topping :)

Our little family is totally addicted with chocolate :) Any kind :)