Agate Pearls

I must say that since I discovered the higher end materials, nothing makes me smile more than the pearls. I especially love the large ones. They make any bracelet more rich and luxurious and add a certain "je ne sais quoi" to any creation. I used pewter spacers and bead caps. I also used a few pewter beads and a pewter toggle clasp. The agate nuggets come in all sorts of tones so I tried choosing a variety to make the bracelet look unique. Of course I added my favorite large cultured fresh water pearls.

Let me know what you think I always love to read your lovely comments.

Marie

Nugget Bracelet

This bracelet has a lovely silver plated toggle clasp and small round silver plated beads between each nugget. The light green nuggets are Aventurine a semi precious stone and the dark variegated green are dyed shell. Unfortunately When I first started this little hobby of mine I did not write down the names of most of my stones, so the other ones I can not remember the names of. I learned my lesson and now keep all the tags with the beads so I don't run into this again. lol. This bracelet has considerable weight to it, and feels quite nice on your wrist.

I am having trouble with my computer so excuse the short posts, I hope to get it fixed soon.

See you soon

Marie

Stretch Choker

What a lovely neck, don't you think? lol. This is my oldest daughter Emma-Jeanne. She is modeling this choker for me so I could get a decent picture and really show you what it looks like. It really suits her. :)

I used three rectangular red glass beads as the focal point, silver spacers at the edges and black glass seed beads in between. I did this on two strands of stretch magic so that I could make it stronger and so I could make it wider by expanding it after the focal point. I did this simply by putting beads on each of the strands and combining the strands again through one row before the toggle.

I used more of the black seed beads and pewter spacers, and added some larger clear and black glass beads. I put a toggle clasp at the back to make it easy to put on but the stretch magic was to make it more comfortable.

Let me know what you think!!

Marie

Marbled

I gave this bracelet to my Mother for her Birthday. She was ecstatic. She loved the colours and the texture and how it sat on her wrist. My Mother has dark brown hair, even at 63, and looks fantastic in earthy colours.

I used a variety of stones and some chips that had an iridescent sheen to them. I did not place the stones in any particular order but made sure to place chips between each stone. I finished it off with a metal heart toggle clasp.

Come again soon

Marie

Luxury in Amber

I think I have it!! This is the beginning of where I want to go with this jewelry making thing. I want the bracelets to be rich and intricate and have some weight to them. Just adding bead caps to large beads and larger spacers in between them made so much difference. I just hope someday I can afford to use sterling and Swaroski crystals in some of my stuff.

I picked out some random beads from my stash that were a little more bulky than what I usually use. I also picked some bead caps and large silver beads that I had on hand and combined them more randomly than any of my other work. It was easier than I thought it would be to stray from the comfort of pattern.

I want to thank Cluny Grey for her inspiration. She is likely the most talented jewelry designer I have ever encountered and Her works of art make any of mine pale in comparison. I can only hope to one day reach her degree of talent.

Thanks for stopping by.

Marie

Birthday Fun!

My 8 year old daughter Emma, was invited to a Birthday party. About 2 hours before I am to drop her off she says to me "Did you get Pauline a Birthday present?" Oh Dear, I guess time got away from me again. So she says to me "Maybe we could make her something!!" Perfect, now I don't have to go shopping. So we sat down and made Pauline a bracelet and earrings with her favorite colour, purple! Emma picked all the beads herself and told me kind of where she wanted them and with some fine tuning this is what we ended up with. Perhaps Emma will have to start her own creative blog someday. I thought she did really well.

Marie

Crackled! {sold}

I made this one a couple of weeks ago and I just sold it so I thought I would post it. I made it with glass crackle beads, some pearled glass spacers and garnets. I just really like the lively colour combo and obviously so did my friend Karen. It really suited her style. She is elegant in a very simple way and the bracelet looked like it belonged on her wrist.

Thanks for stopping by.

Marie

Square Fun!!

Happy Day Everyone!!

I had such fun making this bracelet. I found these square links at Michael's on clearance. I thought it could be something really interesting to try. They opened at one end and so I pried them apart and added some beads here and there and attached them all together. There was no plan, I just put them together and played around with it until I was happy with the results. I used a toggle clasp to finish it off. It hangs nicely on your wrist even with all the squares.

Thanks so much for coming by.

Marie