Americana Set

The 4th of July is almost upon us!  In honour I've made this set based on the American Flag.

The pendant was donated.  I'm not sure whether it's glass crystal or quartz. 

The pendant hangs from multi-layered cobalt seed beads and metalised acrylic star beads.

Next, are two layers of red seed beads, and between them a string of quartz chips.  The rest of the necklace is strung on a single strand of clear silver lined seed beads and connected by lobster clasp.

The earrings are a new design I'm trying out.  I made a square hoop using the cobalt seed beads and hung a star in the middle.  Hanging on the bottom are alternating red and clear seed beads to represent the stars and stripes.  The earwires are nickel free. :)

If you would like more information about this set, please feel free to email me at: kymberligee@gmail.com

My Beating Heart Set

A new one-of-a-kind set made with bought beads mixed with recycled beads and rose quartz nuggets.

The pendant is this beautiful metal heart...

This is a marble type bead that I found.  I'm not sure what it came off, but I've had it ages and could never find anything to do with it.  The other recycled beads are these milky glass round beads...

The rest of the necklace is comprised of these glass marbled rose beads...

The beads are wrapped in twisted antique silver knitted wire, which gives it a romantic feel.

The matching earrings are based on dreamcatchers.  Pink acrylic bicone beads are threaded on silver wire which is haphazardly wrapped and bent around square wire that I've made into oval hoops.  The earwires are nickel free.

From the wire, I've hung these white faceted glass hearts.

If you would like more information about this set, please feel free to email me at: kymberligee@gmail.com

3 Poppies Necklace

New for June!  I've finally got my alternate petal colours, so I decided to show off the red daggers in this design.

I created this pendant from three "flowers" that I made from Czech glass daggers wired around an opaque black glass bead.  The finished "flowers" are then tied together and hung from a length of leather cord.  The cord is connected by a gunmetal lobster clasp.

Other petal colours available: rose pink, red [pictured], clear, topaz, peridot/light green, black, green, amethyst, amber, royal blue, turquoise, gunmetal, pale pink, lilac, aqua, sky blue

SOLD!

Calypso Necklace

I'm designing more summer jewellery and here is the latest installment:

The Tagua Nuts are back, this time in fuchsia pink!  I wanted a bright, colour clashing necklace that really stood out.

I added these pretty flower spacers and used the beaded star bead caps to cover the large holed Tagua nuts.

Next we have these turquoise and black Greek ceramic beads and in between those are lime green acrylic beads with an AB coating (reflects various colours), which were taken off an old bracelet. 

I thought I'd show you a close up of what one of the bark blemishes look like.  As you can see, it only adds to the uniqueness of these beautiful beads.

Finally; the necklace is strung onto leather cord, and connected by a lobster clasp, although it is long enough that it should fit over most heads.

There is a limited supply of this necklace.  Once they've gone they've gone.

SOLD!

Wavy Cage Ring

I was playing around with aluminium wire the other day and ended up with this really cool ring:

I manipulated the wire with my pliers and ended up with this wavy pattern.

I finally have a ring mandrel so I'll be able to recreate this.

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Shackles Necklace

I wanted to create something that was actually more my style.  Something with a Gothic edge, something with chains, something kind of like this...

Shackles necklace

This is the Shackles necklace.  15mm Black Tagua beads, antique silver bicone spacers, antique silver bead caps, hanging from a length of oxidized silver rollo chain.

Tagua beads

Although there are no recycled materials, this is a one-of-a-kind item, as I can't acquire the bead caps anymore.

Antique silver bead caps/Antique silver bicone spacers

Oxidized silver Rollo chain

This is also the last one of these antique silver toggle clasps I have left.

Antique silver toggle clasp

If you would like me to make you something similar to this, please feel free to contact me at: kymberligee@gmail.com with "Shackles Necklace" in the subject line.

Tagua Nut Necklace

Yay! I was commissioned to do my first piece!  Okay, so it was for my Mom, but she's paying me for it.  I'm also designing one as a present for my Gran's next door neighbour.  Less about that and more about the new necklace I've made.

So Mom wanted a chunky necklace that went with these old earrings of hers:

This what we came up with:

The big beads are called Tagua nuts, which both of us fell in love with as soon as we saw them.  They're from a variety of palm tree (according to my supplier's website), and dyed different colours.

 

Because they're a natural bead, they vary in shape and sometimes have blemishes (the bark), which make them very distinctive.  I used Bali spacers in between the three focal beads.

At each end of the focal beads I placed these ridged spacers, followed by ridged black glass oval beads, embossed spacer tubes, smooth black glass oval beads and so on...

Finally I used this "knotted" look toggle clasp.  It's beaded onto a black leather cord.

Greek Earth Set

This is the set I made my Mom for her birthday.  She wanted something striking, so I mixed semi-precious stones with a mixed selection of brown glass beads. The list of semi-precious stones include; amethyst chips, smoky quartz chips, lapis lazuli chips, and wooden agate beads.  The rest of the beads are; Czech fire polished light green glass beads, antique bronze spacers, and some lime silver lined spacers.

The pendant is "S" shaped light green veined Jasper topped with wooden rondelles that were off an old pair of earrings.

 

On the earrings, the beads are a mixture of glass shapes, amethyst chips and smoky quartz chips hanging from Greek metal pendants.

 

This set isn't for sale and cannot be recreated. Sorry. :(

Amethyst Chip Set

I bought this necklace for my Mom...

When I got into jewellery making, she asked if I could make her some earrings to match...

Not only did I make the earrings, I also made a ring...

...and a bracelet.

This is the whole set together.

Charity

My aunt has stall on which she sells toys and things to raise money for cats.  Occasionally I'll make her jewellery to sell out of old things I had lying around, or free gifts that I was given by my suppliers.  This is one of those sets.

The necklace and earring are beaded from a mixed bag of seed beads that I got in a mystery bag.  The "necklace extender" is the last bit of chain I had left after making the Colour Chrome Set.

The outer loops I made from beading wire and the inner loops are from an old pair of earrings.

Daisy Chain Necklace

I've been working on making more summery looking jewellery.  I hope you like my Daisy necklace!

I made the "daisy pendant" using little glass dagger beads around a round glass bead.  The idea is from one of my beading books, but I didn't like loop hanging from both ends of the daisy.

Interesting note: The glass yellow flower beads, have fleck in them which glow in the dark.  I don't know how many of you go to raves (do people still go to raves?), but I thought that was interesting to note.

As many of the beads I used came from mixed selections, not all necklaces will look the same.  I have just ordered some different "petal" and "pollen" colours, so I'll probably be making some other styles too.

Materials Used: Yellow glass bead selection, Czech glass crystal dagger beads, silver lined yellow and clear seed beads, Light blue fire polished Czech beads, yellow glass flower beads and silver findings.

If you would like me to make something similar to this necklace, please feel free to email me at: kymberligee@gmail.com, with "Daisy Chain Necklace" in the subject line.