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!

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.