Cloisonnee

Here are a couple of bracelets I made with some pretty cloisonnee beads I bought from a shop downtown.  I recently went back to get more, I liked them so much.

Pearls for Mom

I made these for my mom to wear to a wedding recently.  She's into pearls...can you tell?

They're glass pearls, and I used black, white, and off-white.  She was a fan of my pink and black necklace (and hey, it's a nice necklace, tooting my own horn or not), and luckily there were still a few pendants at the store.

So I went hog-wild...

...and made quite a few pieces this evening.  Granted, they didn't take long to do, but it is a lot all at once.

The black and pink ones I made for my mother, copying ones I've made before.  Then I figured I had beads the same shape as the green ones in clear and purply-burgundy, so I made those too.

The blue chandeliers I made for the same lady that asked for the green chandeliers, and I was feeling bad about neglecting all the left-over blue goldstone and blue lace agate chips from the necklace I made with them, so I made some matching earings.

The bracelet and matching earrings I made with some connectors I bought at Michael's, and some glass beads that are half clear, half shiny-coated.  I have a few beads like that in different colours and I like the way they sparkle.

Jewellery Class #3

In our third class we made a bracelet out of some glass and plastic beads, one type of which were tube beads, which I must say I didn't know about before I saw them.

We also made a cool necklace and earrings set out of chain.  Instead of a clasp in back, there's a toggle clasp in the front, which makes it the focal point of the necklace.  The teacher brought the chain pieces already cut to size, so we just assembled them.  They're pretty simple, but elegant, and I've worn them with a black turtleneck, and they look really nice.

Jewellery-Making Class, Day 2

Day 2 of our class, and we were ahead of schedule, so we jumped ahead to making a chain bracelet.  The teacher brought a stash of beads that we got to choose from and make our own design with.  This is what I made.

The beads were glass and plastic, the latter of which I'm not keen on using in the future, but the bracelet came out looking nice.  The most time-consuming part was making the loops in the wire pins, but it was worth it, I think.

EDIT:

I also made some earrings with matching beads: