Ribbon and Pearls

The make for Monday 29 March is really quite simple. Just some stringing but finished off in a slightly different way. Three lines of different styles and colours of beads, one row of small silver metal effect beads, one row of blue glass pearls with seed beads inbetween and finally larger cream coloured glass pearls again with white seed beads inbetween. These have all been joined onto a large ring and then cream coloured ribbon has been attached to the rings to give it a slightly different look. This also makes the necklace longer. I have called it Ribbon and Pearls.

Daisy Daisy, give me your answer do

Final make for this week. Once again I found some plastic flower shapes in my stash which I had forgotten about. I teamed these with some different styles of metal beads, amber coloured crystals and finally some white beads to tie in with the flower shapes. Once again I joined it all together with sections of chain. I have called it Metal Daisy Chain.

Daisy Chain bracelet

I have carried on the theme for the bracelet, which is also called Daisy Chain bracelet. I used smalled flower shaped beads with the Red Malachite slabs on one side of the bracelet and on the other I have used a double chain of silver plated curb chain. The toggle clasp is silver plated. You may notice on the picture that there is a little hand shaped charm attached to the bracelet. It has been etched with hand made and I try to attach one of these to every item that I make.

Red Malachite semi-precious stones

I have just started using semi-precious stones and I received a large amount of them through the post this week. I purchased a couple of packs of Red Malachite freeform slabs and you can see by the differences in colour how they can vary from one to the other. However there were 2 distinct themes going on in the colouring and I decided to make a couple of sets with the 2 themes. The first 3 items are made with a lighter version of the red malachite with a cream stripe running through them. The first item I made was a necklace which I have called Daisy Chain necklace. The chain and toggle clasp are silver plated and the daisy beads although look metal are actually plastic, so the necklace is not too heavy.