Barb's Egyptian Necklace

 

My Aunt in law Barb requested I make her a special necklace. She has always wanted an egyptian style collar necklace in "her" colors. So we went to Queen street and she picked all the beads and stones with a little help from me and several weeks later Viola! I've been having a hard time getting a good picture of it so hopefully Justin will assist me when he gets back from work, but in the meantime here is her very ornate collar.

Working on working on

So sort of like Keep on keeping on but I'm just trying to finish up a lot of project since Justin is in Hawaii... I have a lot of alone time right now and today I really used it wisely. I had my whole week planned on projects to do each day but I think that's not going to work out as planned since my Aunt and Uncle in Law are kidnapping me away to their Chalet. I would normally say no, but they are super picky about their place and so I have to "learn the ropes" before I am allowed to be there NEXT week when my friend Julia comes to visit. I was sort of hoping she wouldn't want to go but she just wrote and said YES she does... so off I go.

On a happier note, they make some amazingly yummy dishes up there and I can always take my beads and stuff with me. :)

Aunt Verna

 

So, my Aunt Verna heard that I had made jewelry for the family for Christmas and asked me to make something... It proved to be more of a challenge than I had orignally thought. If you know my Verna, then you'd understand why my previous attempts to make her something I rejected as the final product... they all seemed commercial, teenager-ish and just nothing that really spoke "Aunt Verna" to me.

Above are the best pictures I took of the necklace that I decided was "Aunt Verna" like. Some info... I used recycled hard drive rings , double sided red velvet ribbon, black and silver silver pearls and the back clasp is magnetic. It's all hand sewn... It's a piece of art in my own eyes. Verna would give me colored pencils and art supplies for Christmas and if you know me that's HUGE for someone who loves to express themselves creatively. I also remember her wearing a red colored beret and I thought it would be a great color for her.

It's been great getting back into being creative now that I'm feeling better :)

Back from Surgery

So, I'm back from surgery and ready to get creative again. I'll post pictures later of the piece I made for my Aunt Verna. YAY!

PS. My mother in law thought it would be funny for me to get my gallstones/gallbladder and make jewelry out of it... a pendant and earrings. I know she's only joking but do people do that?!

Down but not out

Sorry... I've been out of the jewelry making bit of my life. I ran to PA to get my husbands car and the day after I got back I ended up in the hospital for two days.... Tomorrow I get my surgery and should be up and running before ya know it!

Unusually Pretty

 

Knowing me, there are few days that I get all dolled up. These two pieces were completed yesterday and as I took pictures of them I noticed how usually pretty they are. The bracelet started when someone from Etsy asked for a Haute Bride type bracelet with the crystal brooch in the middle and 5 strands of pearls bursting from it. Well, I did what she asked for but then I didn't like it... thought the 5 strand of solid pearls looked boring. SO, I added my own pattern to it and I think it looks like music notes on five lines of music.

The other necklace was inspired from the winter tulips that Franny gave us... they were starting to die, as all fresh flowers do... I was watching the petals lean back and then drop off and thought the rasberry/white mix of colors looked really pretty. So, I took the pictures with some of the fallen petals.

Oldest Necklace EVER

 



If you knew me in High School/College I had this necklace... Depending on WHEN you knew me it was either tied behind my neck, fastened with a safety pin or just literally falling off and in pieces...
I LOVED this necklace that I bought from the stand in front of the lemonade stand that worked at in the Park City mall. So much that I finally bought it after staring at it forever and just recently RECREATED it. I still had the pieces so thanks to the internet I found the knotting technique. An hour later and two different thicknesses of hemp rope I had my necklace back... YAY! It's amazing the things I'll do for something I enjoy. Anywho, thought I'd share!