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.