Just a quick post to share my newest creation with you all!

I’m really excited about this one – I feel like I’ve really tapped the mind of the great jewellery goddess this time!

These little bits of gorgeousity will take you anywhere…

Introducing the ‘Classic Hoops’ range:

In Sterling Silver…. $34

In Brass (with Sterling Earwires)… $27

In Copper (with Sterling Earwires)… $27

So, what do you think?

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In case you can’t already tell, I’ve fallen in love with metal. We’re making some beautiful children together

My latest creation is one that’s been floating around in my head for a while, and I finally got around to making them yesterday – have a look…

Metal Trio...

These are totally handmade, with sterling silver earwires, plus sterling, brass and copper strands of handforged metal. I love the combination that these metals make together.

A lot of people only work in Sterling, but I really like all three metals. I think I’m going to aim to make some more peices that combine the three – what do you think?

Here are some of our other babies…

Spirals - Brass Earrings

Sprials - Sterling Silver Earrings

Branches - Brass Necklace

These little guys are all for sale on Etsy. 

I’ve signed up to take a silversmithing course in a few weekend’s time, too! I’m really excited. I am, however, very bummed out over the fact that they cancelled my painting course! Apparently not enough people signed up. Boooo. But I used the money I’d paid for that to pay for the silversmithing course instead, so not a total loss – I’ll just have to muck around with paint a bit more by myself for a while!

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I went crazy last night experimenting with copper! I just love working with and hammering metal since I bought my anvil and hammer – many things brewing in my mind at the moment.

Here are the four pendants I’ve made so far – two are already for sale on Etsy, the others to soon follow!

Spiral

Wave

Twirl

Spiral

I really loved making these – I’m sure there’ll be more to come! What do you think?

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In case I haven’t mentioned this before, I get bored easily. This is why you will always see a variety of jewellery in my collection – I obsessively make one thing for a week or two, before moving onto something else – usually practising or learning a new skill or technique.

Since I am currently waiting for the post lady to come and replenish my stock of sterling, copper and brass wire, I was at a loose end this evening. I have some new wire designs I’m dying to use for another line of jewellery, but as I know what I want to do and don’t have the wire for it, I’m in limbo.

The only relatively thick wire I do have is a coated copper wire roll from Spotlight. I don’t intend to use this for the jewellery I sell, as I like to use raw copper so that it colours naturally over time.

So – I decided to experiment! I’ve seen some chainmaille around, and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to give it a go.

So, I used my copper wire to make some jump rings, and moseyed off through the big wide web to find some help.

I saw a few helpful bits and pieces, and managed to make this tonight – (please excuse the bad photos – my camera has gone AWOL, so I’ve had to resort to using the webcam!)

Chainmaille Bracelet

Bracelet and workspace...

Chainmaille closeup

Chainmaille back and clasp

The clasp in the last photo was handmade by me, too – out of regular copper. You can also see that the jump rings are a little rough – as I was experimenting I didn’t bother to make sure both ends of each ring were flat.

I’m really happy with how this turned out – I think I may have to practice making more chainmaille – and some of the different weaves are just amazing. It does take a lot of patience, though…

Have any of you made chainmaille? Or would you like to? Would you buy chainmaille jewellery?

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I’m very excited about these! I’ve been working away on a new line of necklaces, and today I’m going to give you all a look at the first few in the line.

As do many of my new ideas (and, I’m sure, yours too) the design of these necklaces just popped into my head when I was reading a novel. All of a sudden, I thought “now, if I just do that…” and viola! ‘Delicious’ were born!

They are a line of wire-formed pendants, incorporating many different styles of bead. The first two I’m going to show you are quite similar – in that they both use copper wire and blue/brown hues of beads.

Cleopatra

Cinnamon Sky

I’ve made a whole bunch of these, and I’m going to gradually list them in my Etsy shop over the next few weeks. These two are up there right now

Let me know what you think, and keep an eye on the blog (you could always subscribe so you don’t miss a post!) – I’ll post pictures of more ‘Delicious’ necklaces soon!

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