jewelllery making for 2010

thistledome

If I've done this right, there should be a photo below of my first attempt at a pair of cascade earrings. Probably not a good choice for a beginner and I made loads of mistakes on them, but they look very good from a distance!

Cost about £1.60 in materials and it was obvious that I'd bought the very cheapest quality findings. I noticed the silver plating flaking off my headpins when I was making the loops for the little beads (4mm fire polished). The earring wires supposedly 925 silver, but I suspect they are also plated. The earrings weigh 3 grams each.

Hubby says I should buy sterling silver, but I figure whilst I'm practicing the techniques I should use the cheap stuff.

It was great fun (took me about 2 hours though!) and if the materials were better quality, I wouldn't feel embarrassed to sell them. Thanks to princesspoppypop I finally found the big oval beads at Empire beads, so ta for that and thanks to everyone else who's put their pics up here and offered advice and help

princesspoppypop

Your earrings are beautiful thistledome. The blue is so pretty.

Poppy x

Kandipandi

Totally agree they are very lovely!

I received my first order from Jillybeads today and I'm delighted with it! I ordered the stuff Monday night and it arrived this morning. Im excited to get cracking now, but I'm at work (on my lunch of course).

thistledome

Thank you both .

Good luck Kandipandi, I'll look forward to seeing what you make.:)

Sexy_Em

My swivel clips and my tiny feet charms have come today, now all I need is some beads and some pins to put in the middle of the two lol!

Hopefully they'll be here tomorrow!!

princesspoppypop

Kandipandi wrote: »

Totally agree they are very lovely!

I received my first order from Jillybeads today and I'm delighted with it! I ordered the stuff Monday night and it arrived this morning. Im excited to get cracking now, but I'm at work (on my lunch of course).

Ooo its all so exciting... when I was at work I used to get my jewellery and craft stuff delivered there and it was awful knowing I had jiffy envelopes filled with lots of lovely goodies that I couldn`t play with until I got home:(
There was also a craft shop in the next building to where I worked - so guess where I spent my lunchtimes...... I always came back with a stash of ribbon, card, fimo, beads, templates etc. My colleagues thought I was mad!

Poppy x

princesspoppypop

Here is one of my latest makes. Its a gift for my best friend - was going to give her the red vampy one I made but last time I saw her she was wearing turquoise and thought this would be perfect with her outfit! Its a cluster of glass pearls in shades of turquoise with some hermatite mixed in and some ab berries.


Poppy x

thistledome

Lucky Friend! I love those matt/rough(?) pearls you use, they look almost edible - like sweets.

x-Princess-Vikki-x

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What do you think?

Purpleroses

ohh poppy thats beautiful!!

they're lovely princess!

Just got in to find 3 lovely bags of new beads! ohh can't wait to get stuck into them!