"Ocean" - Earrings

Back to the blues! ^^

Czech glass beads, ceramic beads and old pressed glass beads. Simple but lovely... and dangling! ^^ The colours remind me of the ocean, all the different moments...

Look how beautiful when the light goes through...!

"Glow" - earrings

Pink and more pink...! Some shades of rose and dark silver... and more pink! ^^ These swarowski bicones were a present from a friend... who used them in a hair pin for a wedding outfit. She thought she wouldn't wear it anymore so she took it apart and gave me the beads! If you read my blog for some time you know what great friends I have! Soooo many beads, stones, sea shells, seeds and other stranger things they gave me over the time. :)

"Winged" - Polymer clay pendant

I made this some time ago... I really like it. I am just struggling to create an necklace out of it. But I am still trying ^^

"Cosmic whispers" - Necklace

Since I like to give the jewelery pieces I make names, I try to find suiting ones. Not always but more often than not recently. Since I made this necklace with beads from a surprise bead selection kit named "Whispers" this had to be incorporated in the name. Just that.... mh... the piece has a kind of steampunk feeling for me combined with... Saturn. The colour, the ring... the planet saturn just came into my mind. Since saturn and whispers is a not so perfect combination I tried to figure out what feeling the neacklace projects to me. Cosmic whispers fits for me into a Jules Verne idea of science fiction. A little bit whimsical, mechanical and last but not least, the necklace speaks to me like is has a story to tell.

You see the big bronze ring? I bought it in my sewing store in the city center of leipzig. It is normally meant for a belt (if you want to sew one). A nice and sturdy quality, already meant to be worn and not too expensive (not cheap either to be honest ^^). They have them in a lot of different sizes and colours.

The other pieces I made with the "Whispers" bead selection:

"Whispers and flowers" - Bracelet

"Whispers and flowers" - Earrings

"Urban whispers" - Earrings

"Urban whispers" - Earrings

Hammered wire, some wrapping, small beads... they have a tribal feeling for me and all the beads are again from the bead package "Whispers" (have look here for more details and here what else I made with these beads).

Inspirations: On the streets (Freiburg)

If you wonder which Freiburg... Breisgau. I just had about an hour to look around but found this wall in the first moments!

"Whispers and flowers" - earrings

I struggled to take pictures of the earrings. That you could see all beads, get an idea how they "dangle"... They would not lie flat on the table so I tried different versions hanging them. 

Fitting for the bracelet I made (have a look here) and all the beads as well as the little bit of waxed linen were also part of the bead package "Whispers". 

"Whispers and flowers" - bracelet

I got my first beads taking part in "The Curiosity Club". Rebecca started this club and sells it in her etsy shop "The Curious Bead Shop". In short: You get a monthly surprise package with beads, findings and other surprise supplies. She gives her selection a theme every month and this was: "Whispers". All the beads are from the kit and the bronze metal parts from my stash. It is a simple bracelet but I love how it turned out :)

"Forgotten treasures II" - Stories they tell

Normally I am not too fond of mixing metals. Not that I really dislike it rather than looking at a piece I quite often have the impression that it was just a random mistake. There are jewelery pieces with perfect mixed metals, they complement and enhance each other. But that is (for me at least) really difficult to achieve. These earrings are an exception for me! I used some more of the old silver beads (have a look here at "Forgotten treasures"). I combined them with tiny red czech beads with a picasso finish (from The Curious Bead Shop), grey swaroswki bicones (one of my favorite colours for swaroswkis!) and copper beads. Copper. But the silver beads have a copper hint in them as if they just have a thin silver layer on top with the copper below. Together with the dark read glass beads I surprisingly loved the colour story! Like my first earring pair I made with my treasured old and worn silver beads, these earrings look like they have a story to tell. Rather belonging in an arabic fairy-tale, directly out of thousand and one nights :)

"Forgotten treasures" - The beauty of time

You see the silver beads? The worn look, full of bumps and dents? They are made over a kind of inlay (don't know what), just a thin layer of metal on top. From the colours I found I would say a copper basis with silver on top. They were part of a bracelet I found in a second hand shop. The thread was worn (and not nice anymore... no way...) and like the two silver beads on top, all of the beads looked like they had a rough past. But they appealed to me.

There is something special they tell, a hidden story. This worn look can't be achieved by anything else than time. For me they are little treasures, beads you just get once!

After I bought them (with other broken jewelery pieces and old glass beads) I got rid of the thread and scrubbed them again and again and again.... and again! Inside and out just to really get them clean. I used mild soap to make sure I would not get rid of the patina but just of all the real and even worse, the imaginary dirt (working in a lab has its downfalls...). Afterwards I polished the top with soft fabric.

The czech glass flowers and beautiful facetted blue beads (both from the curious bead shop again ;) ) combined with the silver beads are now telling a new story and just by looking at the earrings my head is full of images and ideas, sounds and colours.