Velvety Heart for Cats

I am going to have a stall next Saturday at our local school so I decided to make some stocking fillers and necklaces for little ones (and not so little ones).

There are three necklaces with different Chinese porcelain cat pendants. They are so cute and just perfect to be hung on a necklace with some velvety suede and ribbon:

White Cat

I've used deep pink suede and a lovely white satin ribbon with cut out little flowers:


Red Cat

For the red cat I used bright red suede and velvet:


Pink Cat

For the pink cat I used pale pink suede and a pink satin ribbon:


For the not so little ones there's the

Velvet Heart

This is the most gorgeous blue heart with silver and green flecks inside. I've hung it from deep blue suede and royal blue velvet ribbon. The ribbon can be worn like the choker with the heart hanging further down.


and the

Red Pendant

A very simple necklace that looks lovely when worn because the red and green contrast in the pendant works so well:

Fixing Things... - Liz's Brooch

My friend Liz showed me her brooch yesterday and it was in a very sorry state. It had come with a cardigan and was pretty, or would have been if it had been made with more care. Lots of bits of very thin wire had been used and the ends not tidied off so they'd caught and eventually come loose.

There weren't many beads left so I added more. Liz wanted to use it with a brown, black and purple cardigan, so I used the beads that were still on the brooch (the large purple one, the golden ones, and the brown tigereye [?] ones) and added more: garnet, amethyst, red jade and plum coloured glass chips, the pink bead, the deep wine coloured freshwater pearls, plum coloured crackle and amethyst coloured faceted beads and a faceted peach vintage bead.

However, first I had to take it apart completely. Two of the three loops at the bottom of the pin fell off when I took the wire off... Not much left of it, but I had fun using 1 (!) string of deep purple wire to string all the beads on securely. To make sure the wire would stay in place and not move (because I did only have a single loop left to hold it in place), I used some super glue at the back.

Here's the result:

Orders

I got a few orders at the last party - either to add to an existing design or a new design entirely.
Here is what I made over the weekend.

The first one was a matching pair of earrings to the "Renaissance" necklace.

Here's the set.



This was a necklace to match the green/blue/purple shell bracelet, for which I'd already made some earrings a while back.


Here's a picture of the set.

Another purple spectacle chain:


Skull bracelet. This is another one - I'd made one with a tan leather thong and brown beads, this one has purple and black beads and the same little skull beads. The purple is slightly stronger in day light. For some reason the flash seems to "eat" purple and make it look slightly dull.
Two lovely bracelets for boys with wooden and glass beads, and Tibetan spacers. The glass bead on the blue bracelet is a recycled glass beads and looks wonderful in daylight - full of little blue specks and a lovely frosted look.