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Fancy glass bead necklace and earrings

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:53:49 +0000

Necklace and earring set made with pink and teal glass bead dangles fixed onto a sterling silver necklace. Some of these beads are cut glass and others are lamp worked.

Re-design a necklace – pt 2

carrie — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:54:24 +0000

Earlier I wrote – KT commissioned me to re-design a necklace she had.
I hadn’t seen it yet – however I told her to send it ahead and I’d do what I could.

The re-designed necklace set is pictured here:

Here are the earrings and bracelet:

Here’s what I did after I took the necklace apart and re-arranged the existing beads into a longer one strand necklace.

I took out the offending green glass bead (which I will reuse later)
Made one pair of new earrings in the same style – this pair now sports sterling silver ear wires.
Created another set of co-ordinating earrings for a bit of a change up.
Added in a few extra silver tone beads for balance.
Created a focal bead as a pendant drop.
And using the extra beads and a few more of my own I threw in a bracelet with magnetic clasp.

How to re-design a necklace – pt 1

carrie — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:46:50 +0000

The other day I received a commission from KT to “please, please can you DO something with this necklace?” There were a couple of specific needs that needed to be met.

1) I really don’t like that big green glass bead… it throws the necklace off and it’s heavy.
2) And also – I need you to take beads from it and make another earring to match the one I have – if you can.
3) I’m not in love with the double strand – one single longer strand may be better.

Here is the necklace and earring before I decided what exactly to do.
Before:

Necklace – Blue Delight – dichroic glass and silver

carrie — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:47:55 +0000

I nick named this one Blue Delight.

A very fun necklace of fused dichroic glass, it has sterling silver and enameled copper wire with glass and silver bead accents. I hated to see this one go…

Silver and Natural Stone Necklace

carrie — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:55:56 +0000

I really like the combined colors in this – it’s a subtle palette mixing soft translucent white, with a muted green and hints of deep blue.

Necklace – Indian Inspiration 1

carrie — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:00:51 +0000

A mixed media jewelery piece. Inspired by various Amer ican Indian designs. Using leather cord, plumbing parts, chain and metal.

Necklace – NB_0605_010

Driia — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:02:46 +0000

This necklace was made from some of the first semi-precious stones I ever bought at a Gem show. It’s one of my favorites for that reason. Well – the fact that it has purple beads doesn’t hurt either.

Blue Black Victorian Necklace

carrie — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:17:58 +0000

I was at a convention the day I made this…talking to my friend Denneal and showing her various techniques. She really liked this simple and elegant design. Denneal pushed me to realize my dreams of starting the business and selling my own work after seeing several pieces I had made.

EDIT: Ironically the first sale I had after I started the business was this very necklace. I was sad to see it go, but excited that someone wanted my work – and the buyer wasn’t even a friend or family member….yeah!

Necklace – Indian Inspiration 2

carrie — Fri, 12 May 2006 23:15:32 +0000

This necklace I made years and years ago out of fairly cheap parts…mostly base metals, plastic and painted wood beads. It still gets compliments any time I wear it. Just goes to show that good design in the cheapest materials can fool the eye nicely.

I especially like the pseudo Indian feel which was inspired [...]

Spring Song a Necklace and earring set

carrie — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:02:46 +0000

A medley of spring green and pinks this necklace and earring set I’ve given the name Spring Song.