Second Party - More Vintage

With the last party and work and everything else there wasn't much time to play with my new stock, but with a few late nights I managed to have some fun anyway, here's the result:


Firefly



All vintage beads on a beautiful antique bronze chain with a vintage brass butterfly.


Sparkly Heart
All vintage beads with vintage charms on a silver plated chain with a beautiful heart shaped clasp.


Blue Butterfly

All vintage beads with vintage butterflies and a few bits of vintage chain (between the two butterflies either side and the centre one and on the centre butterfly) on silver plated chain with a gorgeous toggle clasp.

Eternal Winter

My personal favourite. Mostly new beads, apart from the frosted flower beads but the bracelet looks wonderful and really, really frosty.


Now I am off to do some more tidying and cleaning.... so much to do so little time....

More Fun for Little Girls

As the title says, I've been having more fun... :-) And I have! It is so much fun making these little bracelets, especially as they look so pretty when they're finished.

I've made five ready for the next party. The first one is red, with red and pink flowers and a cute little bunny charm. The seed beads and Magatama drops are glass, the feature beads are all good quality plastic beads to keep little girls safe.


Below is my beading mat with the beads ready for number 2, the pink bracelet. Only the flowers and butterflies are plastic, the rest are glass beads.

Here's the finished bracelet, all fluttery and lovely.

Another bracelet ready to be made, number 3, again, only the flowers and the bunny are plastic, the rest of the beads are glass.

Below is the finished article. This is probably my favourite. It looks absolutely gorgeous in real life (rather than a photo taken with a flash).

Below is number 4, the lovely blue one with little fishies and beads in blues and teal. This is all watery and cool. As before, the fishy things are all plastic, the rest glass.

Steve's favourite - green with orange flowers - like a Spring meadow.

The bracelets are £5 each, but you have to be quick to catch one!

More Frantic Beading - Girls Wanna Have Fun!

I sold all my children's (girls') bracelets at the last party, so I spent the weekend and today making more. I haven't finished yet, as I want to make some little wire bracelets as stocking fillers as well.

The first one I made is, admittedly, a bit Gothic, however it would be perfect for a teenager:

I've used very pretty black enamelled, and patterned silver plated hearts, mixed with purple iridescent and black glass hearts and a few glass beads in black and purple.


The second one is made with red enamelled and silver plated flowers, glass ladybirds and flowers, beautiful bright red Magatama beads and cute little butterfly charms:


The third one uses purple enamelled star charms and silver plated stars and a moon charm, and lovely shimmery purple Magatamas and other beads. This one has just been SOLD.


Number four is a fantastic mix of black enamelled butterflies and silver plated butterfly charms and lovely beads in different shades of pink - from pale rose to deep fuchsia. This is so much fun!


The final design is a set consisting of a bracelet and necklace with a centre piece of a mermaid each. Both are designed along a sea theme and have starfish, fish, shells and a wale charm (the necklace only has a large mermaid and 2 starfish charms). I then combined this with lots of beads in varying shades of blue. The effect is lovely and watery.

To make the necklace "extra watery" I've included beautiful teeny Myuki and Magatama drops: