My First Commission: Update

As I said in my last post I will give my cousin the necklace and earrings in Jewellery Class #6, but she did buy some purple Swarovski beads for me to use, so I made her some chandelier earrings that she can use if she wants to:

I had a few beads left over, so I mixed them with some little purple glass pearls, and made a bracelet she could use or give away if she wanted:

She also brought me a three-ringed pendant that she might have wanted on the necklace, but I didn't use it for that, so I put it on a bail so the rings wouldn't move around and strung it on some cord:

Hope she likes everything!

Jewellery Class #6

For #5 we all went to our teacher's house to look at her jewellery, and she does very beautiful work!  We didn't make anything, so am skipping to class #6, the last class.

We made a beaded necklace with some chain, and a lot of looped eye and head pins.  We made some matching earrings too:

When I got home I added some purple and silver stardust beads to make the necklace a little longer, and I am going to give it to my cousin to wear with a shirt she asked me to make something for. 

Here is a close-up of the star-dust beads.  I love how they look.

Jewellery Class #4

For this class we made a couple of cord necklaces, mostly so we could learn how to use cord crimps:

We also got started on another beaded necklace, but I finished it during Jewellery Class #6, so I will show it on the related post.

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.