Sunday, February 22, 2015

Sterling silver.....

Today's post... simple and elegant.  I have some gorgeous Sterling silver pedants that were actually cast from old buttons...  I wanted to keep it simple, so I put them by themselves on a Sterling silver chain:




The are also available as earrings, too, on the Etsy store.....

Friday, February 20, 2015

Aventurine....


 Went on a bit of an aventurine kick recently....  Thought it would be fun to make a group of jewelry pieces that all match.  These pieces can be found at the Etsy store!





Tuesday, February 10, 2015

And the matching earrings . . . .

Matching earrings to the Travelers Bracelet.....


Today was a pretty descent day!  Honestly, I want to get the Etsy shop inventory level to about 150 items... only about 1/3 of the way there!  Pictures do take a bit of time, but yay for the light box I built (why didn't I do that a year ago?!?!)
 So aside from the Chinese Dynasty and Half Penny replica coin earrings (benefit of replicas: very light weight for earrings!) - I also put together the Swarovski pearl earrings in the same antiqued brass finish.  They remind me of little acorns with those decorative caps on them......



  The coins are pretty neat, too.  They have different designs on the front/back - you get to pick out what side you want facing outwards when you order (who doesn't like choices?!?!?)


Monday, February 9, 2015

Sleepy Hollow Inspiration

We all need downtime when doing laundry or decompressing after a long day of work, right?  So yes, yours truly watches Sleepy Hollow as a form of decompression (although my battles of matching socks in a family of 5 seem to be, at times, on the same level as demon fighting). 

If you follow Sleep Hollow too, you're aware that there are only a few episodes left this season.  So, Nick Hawley, right?  He's running around collecting this artifact and that, all with that pretty cool leather necklace with a coin on it. 

Using his necklace as inspiration, I thought I'd design a bracelet version that features the rugged look of leather, jade, and a coin (sorry Nick, this coin is a replicate!).  The final piece: The Travelers Bracelet (which part two will be making matching earrings / necklace!) :