Photo Pendants...

This is what I wanted to do with the photo pendants - make personalised pendants to order. The photos will need to be emailed to me & I will then be able to print them out in colour, black & white or sepia (to give a vintage look). The photos will be sealed with either clear resin or tinted to any colour of choice. The finished pendants will be strung on chain (any length - again to personal choice) and I can add a cluster of beads - again any colours. Alternatively the pendants can be strung simply on ribbon or thong.

I'm hoping to extend this personalised photo jewellery to include bracelets - probably with 3 or 5 small photo charms and other beads & charms to suit the customer (or recipient if it is bought as a gift). There's lot's of fun charms available - handbags, shoes, gardening tools, zodiac charms etc etc...

Vintage Style Pendants...

I wanted to make some vintage style pendants using photos. I raided my mum's box of old family photos which I've scanned. I can't believe how well the really old photos have come out. They were taken in the days when the models had to stay still for ages until the camera had done it's exposing stuff (I'm not a photographer - can you guess). These are my first attempts. I've used two different pendants but have got some vintage style ones on the way which should be more effective. The lady in the top 2 photos is my paternal grandmother & the lady at the bottom my maternal grandmother. Both photos were taken in the 1920's when they were young women. The photo in the middle is a recent one of my son & his fiancee. I've aged it on the PC giving it a sepia finish. All the photos have been sealed with tinted resin which cures to a "glass" finish.

Sweet Heart Key Rings...

Eventually got around to making the sweet hearts into key rings. Only messed one up - not too bad for a novice.

It wasn't so good with the sparkly stars - managed to ruin 2 of them. Dad's going to sort me out with a new drill - I'm using an ancient hand drill at the mo which isn't perfect. I made the stars into a chunky bracelet using some large plastic faux pearls

Make these Butter Jade Hoop Earrings...

Make these butter jade hoop earrings - just click on the photos & then save to your PC. As usual you can buy a kit to make the earrings or buy the earrings themselves from Just K Jewellery

Sparkly Resin Stars...

I made these sparkly resin stars - they're fun aren't they?

I'm going to make them up into a necklace and just need to drill some holes so I can link them together. With yesterday's lovely weather I spent the afternoon in the garden digging a new flower bed and somehow have hurt my thumb - pathetic, I know! The hole making will have to wait until I can hold the drill without it hurting

Resin sweet hearts...

Had an enjoyable weekend playing with the resin. I made the sweet hearts below which are quite fun. Ate quite a few of the love hearts too - I'd forgotten how scrummy they are. I'm not sure what to do with these hearts, I think I'm going to make them up into key rings & handbag charms...

more resin jewellery...

it was Dad's birthday yesterday & we had a nice family lunch. Gave Dad the new Nigel Kennedy CD which he loved. He had two birthday cakes - one with candles saying 21 again!

I'd reworked a red bracelet into a necklace for Mum so she's doing pretty well on the necklace front at the moment. Made some more of the rookie resin into the two pairs of earrings below.

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I've still got some rookie resin to make up into jewellery - you'll be seeing the results here soon...