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.

Sorry!

I'm a little behind on posting, but I promise to put up pictures of the more recent pieces I've made soon, I promise!  I don't have my own laptop yet so I borrow my sister's, and it's not always easy to get time with it.

Swarovski Crystals

I made this unofficially for my mom.  I say that because it wasn't really for anyone in particular, but she liked it, so I'll let her have it.  The pendand didn't come with the dangles, so I bought some crystal beads to match, and made them, along with 3mm silver spacers.  I had enough beads left over for earrings too.  I didn't have any fine chain to attach to the pendant so while I was out today I picked some up.

My New Love For Chandeliers

So since I made a pair of chandelier earrings at my class, I've really started to love how easy it is to make them look good.  These are the ones I've made since:

These are made with purple crackle glass beads and some 3mm glass pearls.  My lighting doesn't do them justice, because they can sparkle in the right light.  I got complimented on them by the nurse when I wore them to the doctor's office today.

These are made with plastic (I KNOWWWW, I said I don't like using plastic, but the flowers were too cute) and glass beads.  I was more in love with the black findings needed for these.  I wore these to work and everyone complimented them.  It feels good to know people like your stuff.

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.

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I also made some earrings with matching beads:

Jewellery-Making Class, Day 1

Joyfully, the class didn't get cancelled this time, and I booked it out of work, super-excited to get started.  It's a comfortable class of five students and an experienced teacher, and we got along pretty well even if most of the time we weren't saying much, concentrating on our work so much.

Another nice surprise was that we were provided with a whole new set of tools, so I got another pair of wire cutters, round nose pliers, and flat nose pliers.  I already bought a set for the class I was supposed to take in September, and brought them with me because I didn't know. 

On Day 1 we made two pairs of earrings.  We were only supposed to make one pair, but everyone in the class either had some previous experience, or picked it up really quickly, so we finished them rather ahead of schedule.

The main focus of the class seemed to be learning how to make connecting loops with eye pins and head pins instead of just stringing beads on wire, and we put that into practice a lot with the pair of earrings we made next:

So, being ahead of schedule, I must say I'm excited for the rest of the classes beacuse we may end up learning things we wouldn't have done otherwise.

Neat Pendant Idea

Firstly, I want to express my love for Etsy (Link Here).  It's a great website where people sell their home-made crafts, and I've already purchased some really nice beads and pendants from there.

Having said that, I found one girl who sells pieces of broken Chinese pottery made into pendants, and I bought a couple of pendants from her.  This is what I did with one of them:

I had some (real?) jade beads kicking around that went with the light green on the snake's body, and I finally bit the bullet and got some gold-coloured findings to use on it.  I don't particularly like yellow gold, but the metal the shard sits in was that colour.

The other piece that I bought from her is a little bigger, more of a circle than an oval, and has a red and blue bird in a tree.  I think I'll put a little more thought into what I'll do with that one.