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.

Mini-Chandeliers

On my big foray to the downtown bead stores, I bought a 200-piece bag of mini chandelier bases.  Oh the possibilities! 

These are a pair I made for a girl at work who liked the earrings I made for the other ladies, but didn't want them as big as theirs.

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.

Earrings for Sale

I finally got around to making a pair of purple chandeliers a couple weekends ago for someone in our Marketing department at work who asked me for them a month and a half ago (they take a while to make, and I didn't have enough time until then).  I didn't take a picture of them, but I used the same Swarovski crystal beads that I used for my cousin's earrings that you can see a few posts back.  The only difference is the base I used to hang the beads from.  If you look even further back at the purple and pearl chandeliers I made, you'll see the same base I used for these earrings.

Anyhow, another lady in the same department noticed her earrings, loved them, and asked me to make her some in green. 

I didn't use Swarovski beads, but the effect was the same. 

A lady in my department asked me to make her a couple of pairs of earrings, one to match a necklace, and another to replace another pair, one of which she  lost.

The necklace was a beautiful gold and black glass heart on silk and cord ribbon, so I bought some dyed freshwater pearls to put together with the black glass beads I had left over from my pink necklace, copying the earrings then too.

The earring on the left was the original, but I could not find any beads to match that exact colour, so I used a redder blue (That makes sense, trust me.  My dad works with printing inks and I hear him say this stuff all the time).  I also used etched bugle beads instead of the plain ones to jazz them up a little.  I even bit the bullet and bought some seed beads, which I am terrified to work with because they're so small.  They came out a little longer than the original too.  I liked these so much, I made myself a pair, but without the little jump ring in the middle.  I just won't wear them to work!

Me? Using pink? Believe it!

I don't really like pink, but I made these out of necessity, since I had a pink dress for my cousin's engagment party.  The pink freshwater pearls matched the pink in my dress almost perfectly, and the colour stands out so well with the black glass beads I chose.

 I was a real fan of the butterfly pendant I found.  It is so light and delicate, and I was almost scared I'd snap it if I made a wrong move. 

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!