Ribbon Magic - Breeze and Celestial

I love combining different materials and ribbon is the latest fashion trend in materials for jewellery right now. For the Breeze necklace below I used a love shell grey ribbon from Ribbon Oasis.

The necklace is again a mix of old and new beads, semi-precious (jade in pale green and mid green), shell and my favourite Magatama drops. I've used lovely filigree flower connectors (again all the way from China) and more twisted and elongate bow shaped connectors, oval jumprings in two sizes and twisted jumprings to keep the ribbon in its place. All is finished off with a beautiful leaf toggle clasp.
Celestial again uses a mix of old and new beads in different shades of blue and crystal beads held together by little conncectors, oval and twisted jumprings and the lovely pale blue ribbon. The finishing touch is a crystal ball screw clasp.


Both necklaces are for sale. E-mail me if you are interested.

More Stretchy Magic - Peacock and Raspberry

Might have said it before, but I just managed to get hold of some really beautiful vintage beads, so I wanted to make something special.
The curvy spacers came all the way from China and I've added large vintage jet and Aurora Borealis (AB) coated feature beads with oblong teal beads on either side and more vintage beads in purple and AB coated dark blue. Finally, I used a few new AB coated emerald and teal faceted beads. To add more interest and space the beads so the bracelet would have the exact length I required I used lovely teal silverlined seedbeads and a few tiny flower spacers. The bracelet is quite large and slips fairly easily over the hand. I am very pleased with the colour and the way it shimmers like a peacock's feathers.

The Rasperry bracelet was only finished this afternoon. It is more delicate than the Peacock bracelet, and shimmers in all shades of reds and pink.


I have used very thin spacers with embossed flowers, Swarovski bicones in garnet, fuchsia and siam, three different shades of faceted Czech beads, dark red AB coated round beads, and beautiful oblong red vintage beads in three different shades of red. Interspersed are beautiful red AB coated delicas. I love the red lusciousness of the bracelet. It almost looks edible. :-)



Both bracelets are for sale. E-mail me if you are interested.

Toby

I recently (last week) bought some earrings from Toby. You can see the earring at the top in the image below. I fell in love with the beautiful shimmer of the round, vintage mother of pearl beads. They look like little moons. However, I wanted a necklace to go with it, so I made one. :-)

I've used vintage and new beads on blackplated chain, to go with the "moon" theme I added some moonstone or opaline beads. They are vintage Victorian and I think work really well with the rest of the beads. There is also white jade, some mother of pearl button and round beads, faceted Czech white beads, and a few little Magatamas in a pearly shade of cream, finally I've added a few Vintage beads in cream and white for more interest.

Hope Toby likes it! :-)