Midnight Flower

This necklace was inspired by the beautiful Victorian black trumpet flowers, which I managed to find recently. I liked the idea of having them with more black flowers and some moonstones. A quite Gothic start which I brightened up with some beautiful deep blue faceted Vintage beads and some Vintage butterfly charms. It's all strung on a black plated chain with black plated findings.

I am very pleased with the result and the necklace has a lovely old fashioned feel with a modern twist.

Happy Hippy Flapper

Bought some absolutely delightful Kashmiri beads the other week and just had to make something with them. My mum asked me for a flapper necklace because they're absolutely everywhere at the moment, although this particular one is not quite right for my mum... I had a look on the net for genuine flapper necklaces and a lot of them seem to be in a 'Y' shape with a tassel making them bottom bit of the 'Y'. I decided that I could do something with that and started putting beads and findings together.


As you can see below I used the Kashmiri beads in different combinations of red and teal blue. I then added glass and lucite flowers (some of them are vintage beads, like the big and 'splatty' red ones and the pale blue one shown below), vintage star, heart and butterfly connectors and lots of beads in shades of blue all strung on silverplated chain.


The result is fun and unique and much, much lovelier than anything that is on offer in the shops. You can tell I am very pleased with it. :-)

Choker Necklaces

A couple of necklaces I made for the Christmas party but didn't have time to upload. The first one uses an Art Nouveau style pendant of a moon with a lovely drop crystal on a thin black leather and silky silver cord with a few silver beads to frame the pendant. This one has just been SOLD. Sorry.


The second necklace is made with a wonderful large mother of pearl necklace on a velvety soft suede cord.
This one I made for myself. Rachel one of my favourite suppliers sold me some lovely teeny black roses and I just had to make myself a necklace with them. It's a fairly short necklace and I've strung it on a black plated chain. There's a myriad of black glass beads amongst them lots of hearts. I wear it almost daily because it works with everything. :-)