A very special piece

Hello again!
Whilst I have been "away", I have not been idle, I can tell you! Doesn't seem to be a great deal to see for my efforts, but somehow the time has just disappeared...

A little while ago I found a channel on the tv that sells semi precious gems and as you do, I ended up buying one or two items!! My wonderful OH asked me what I would like for my birthday and I had seen this strand (38cms long) of multi coloured sapphires. They just fell into the basket and ended up being popped through our letter box. Oooooohhhhh.... they are so sparklingly wonderful, even if they are very small stones.
The next month was our wedding anniversary, a rather special one (45 years!!) and again he asked me what I would like. Well,... there was these gorgeous strands of lilac amethysts ... now what can you do??? Also on sale that day were some very, very nice rainbow flourite and as I could see that some of those stones would go, oh so well with the amethysts, they came along too.
What I am showing below are the pieces I made from the anniversary presents...

It feels absolutely wonderful on and I hope you like the look of it too...

There are quite a lot of stones left and I am getting designs lined up to make with them. I do sell my work too, just not the ones above .. :) , so I will post the ones for sale when they are completed.

Thank you for stopping by.

Welcome to my blogg ... well this one. I have decided to dedicate this blogg to my jewellery and the like and over the next while, will be posting some of my makes.

Thought I would start with this one ....

I made the chain from split rings and the beads are attached using flat headed pins with a loop at the top and then just added onto the necklace chain with another split ring. Nothing really extra ordinary, but when I gave it to my lovely d.i.l. for her birthday, she loved it!

This is another fairly simple one. I used some lovely beads for this one and some waxed cotton thread. Kept it focused at the front and just used some simple knots to hold the beads in place. Earrings are on a head pin and just simply attached to the ear wires.

This is a totally beaded necklace and the design is called "St. Petersburgh Chain". I used some pearl beads with some bronze coloured seed beads.  Once you get into the swing of it, it grows quite quickly. It lays very nicely too. The close up shows how the beads "zip" together.

The last one for today!!
The "chain" is a beaded right angle weave as a "two drop" and the beads are held in place just by a string of beads passing from one side of the chain to the other. The earrings are made simply on a head pin and attached to ear wires.

I have been experimenting in other areas of "jewellery" making and will, eventually be posting photos of these efforts too.

Hope you have enjoyed taking a look at my very first forays into beaded work and thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blogg.

See you soon!!

Special blog

Well, as I can now access my blogs once more, I have decided to dedicate this one to just my cross section of "art work". This means that there will be pictures of all sorts of "things". Most of the items will be for sale, but not all. From paintings to jewellery, from hand embroidery, machine embroidery and all types of bead work.
I shall be taking time to take photos of a selection of my things, so there will be nothing to show for a few days... just watch this space .... as they say!
Happy blogging everyone!

Hellooooo again!!!

Have had to open another blog to be able to get back on..... to say I am annoyed???????

The story is this. I first thought that blogger had done something daft. Then, because my pooter is run by Opera, I thought that after an update, it had done something and wasn't letting me post photos, so I tried to get onto my blog using Firefox ...  and it worked!!!!   Once... :(
Son and heir had a look and he, being a programmer, got in "the back way" and found that it IS blogger being a silly sod!!! Well, there isn't anything that even he could do, so I am stuck with the ruddy nonsense that is blogger.... and now I have another blog. How long will this one last, I wonder? On my sons searching, he found the blogger forum and there are loads of complaints about what they are doing and especially with Opera!! Am so pleased that I am not the only one, but it hasn't lessened the annoyance. Stupid, stupid blogger!!!!!

The photo above is the outer box of the special "card" I made for one of our nieces wedding ... yesterday. It was made from Centura Pearl ivory and the topper is a Hunkydory one.

As you open the box, this is the outer "page" of the box card. The initials are A and E over two intertwined gold rings cut out using my Joy (Cameo). I edged the whole thing with straight line peel offs. The colour for the wedding was a tulip deep pink with a lime green.

The page, to be written on, is a scan of part of the invitation... keeping the theme going! Inside the box are some "silk" (?) tulips and as I couldn't get the colour I wanted, I bought very pale cream ones and dyed them using Inktense blocks and a sable brush. One or two other little "flowers" were coloured using the same method and to complete, I added a couple of organza bows. On the acetate front I put their initials and the rings again....
This box was also made using Centura Pearl in ivory and the page was Centura Pearl paper. I lined the box with a slightly deeper shade of ivory glitter card.
Gave the keepsake to them last evening and the couple seemed very impressed and stated that they "loved it"!  They also said that they loved the three tier wedding cake that I made for them too ... did not decorate it, just made the cake!
Now, let us hope that I can get back on here again... whenever I want to... so fingers crossed!
Thanks for stopping by and thanks to all of you who stopped by my other blog.
Luv ya awl...!!!!!!!!!