New Year, New Necklaces
A belated Happy New Year to all! I've been away in the UK renewing my passport as since my last post we've relocated to Dubai and with less than 6 months to run on said passport they wouldn't issue my...
View ArticleA Good Idea But...
Sometimes what seems a good idea doesn't exactly translate into a wearable item. It happened to me this week. Inspired by some pretty pale blue crackle beads and a desire to make something chunky I...
View ArticleSilver Clay Delight
Silver Daisy - my first ever piece in silver clay Back in January I met a lovely lady, Lisle Skirker, at an Arte market in Dubai Festival City shopping centre. Desperate for a fix of jewellery making...
View ArticleChallenging Challenges
Having enjoyed the Spring Is Sprung challenge set by Linda Jones at the WireWorkers Guild last month I've decided to enter a few more. Making something to meet a brief set by someone else exercises the...
View ArticleSilver Clay Delight Part II
Well I finished my four week Art Clay course and, though I say it myself, am extremely pleased with the results. Here are my final three pieces: Twig Brooch with with blue stones Initial Pendant with a...
View ArticleVery Chuffed....
....to find that my entry in the Make Jewellery Issue 25 challenge was the winning one! I was inspired by the pearls and chain set that was part of the Match Point designs on p27 of the magazine, a...
View ArticleNecklace Blues
Looking Across Weymouth Harbour Its been a while since my last post, I've been on hols in the UK then seemed to dive into all sorts on my return except jewellery making. Anyway while sitting in...
View ArticleCache-Cache Challenge
The lovely scene to the left is a painting from 1873 by Berthe Morisot, the first of the female impressionist painters. Entitled Cache-Cache (Hide and Seek) it also sets the theme for this months Art...
View ArticleHandmade Thursday...
..or any other day in my case but as Thursday is the last day before the weekend here in Dubai and a day when not much happens in my otherwise busy schedule I usually get more time to be creative. So...
View ArticleHandmade Thursday...Fish Bubbles!
Making necklaces is always enjoyable but sometime when a quirky idea comes together its really fun. Today's efforts started out as a set of symmetrically strung blue and white oval beads with a...
View ArticleA Small Disaster Averted
It's been a while since I made any earrings at all but recently when working on an as yet unfinished silver clay project I had a scrap of rolled out clay left. Having impressed it with a swirly texture...
View ArticleBracelet Inspiration
Pink craft wire coils made on a size 2 knitting needle, blue glass beads and "silver" daisy spacers, all threaded on memory wire with a simple clasp Reversible bracelet in right angle weave using...
View ArticleHandmade Thursday
I love earrings but have always shied away from making my own hooks until recently when I bought a book* offering a myriad of wire earring ideas. I own a beautiful pair of sterling silver earrings...
View ArticleSeasonal Challenge
This months MJ Challenge is to produce a piece of jewellery based around the main theme of Christmas, or one of the other themes or projects in Issue 32 of the magazine. So either a unique creation,...
View ArticleHandmade Thursday
Green Glass Band This weeks bracelet is one that has been sitting on my workbench for a while. I finished stitching the bead band last month in just a couple of days but then how to complete it? I had...
View ArticleHelping Hand
The non-working threads stuck down Don't you sometimes wish you had someone around to hold things whilst you use both hands to work on a tricky bit of jewellery? I found myself in this situation when...
View ArticleInspiration from Buttons
Button Bracelet Long time no post. In fact the well of jewellery inspiration has been pretty dry for most of this year until yesterday when I took a new friend on a visit to the so called Haberdashery...
View ArticleMore Buttons
Earlier this year I made a bracelet from buttons. Then a few weeks ago I came across a small bag of recyclable jewellery donated by a friend. In it there was a lovely MoP necklace in shades of blue....
View ArticleFeather with Love
I found this fascinating challenge on the Bead Soup Cafe's (BSC) face book page. The hostess posts an inspirational picture on BSC's main page, along with a short blurb to get everyone inspired to...
View ArticleSilver Hamsa
Brass bonbon dish It all started with a bonbon plate. A lovely brass hamsa shaped one with lots of detail that I found in a local craft shop O'de Rose. It's not just the engraved five fingered outline...
View ArticleTurmi - A Beading Challenge
I love an inspiring challenge and when it results in something a little different from my usual jewellery choices it is doubly satisfying. The most recent Bead Soup Cafe challenge on Facebook really...
View ArticleHBBH 3 ½ - Surprise Party!
Ok I haven't gone mad, there is a bit of unbirthday fun happening over at Marlene & Shelley's Swaps Blog. A sort of a bead swap party based on birth stones midway through another swap event they...
View ArticleUnBirthday Party Day!
It seems so long ago that I was sitting on my boat making a very special piece of jewellery for a complete stranger... well only a month ago and not such a complete stranger, we'd been introduced and...
View ArticleBeen Awhile
So it has been over six months since I posted anything here... and almost that long since I actually made anything beady. Been busy sailing and exploring but having ended up in Morocco for a few weeks...
View ArticleOctober Fest
Autumn is apparently well under way in Northern Europe but here in Morocco the weather is warm and sunny for the most part with little sign of change. The trees are mostly palms or citrus fruit so no...
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