Make this pair of Cherry Earrings...

This is a really easy pair of earrings to make. Either buy a kit from Just K Jewellery or follow the instructions using your own beads & findings.

You will need...
a pair of fish hook earrings
2 x head pins
2 x 15mm silver tubes
4 x tiny silver or seed beads
2 x 10mm cherry red glassbeads

Tools... round nose pliers & wire cutters

INSTRUCTIONS

Take a head pin and add a small silver bead and a cherry red bead.

Add another small silver bead and a silver tube.

You will need 1cm of the head pin to turn a loop. Cut off the excess wire and bend the remaining wire to a 90 degree angle.

Turn a loop in the remaining wire of the head pin.

Open the loop on a fish hook earring and add the head pin.

Close the loop of the earring.

Repeat this process to make the other earring.

More Resin Jewellery...

Just thought I'd quickly post this photo of my latest pieces of resin jewellery

At the back are three rings & the two oval pieces have stud earring fittings. Adding the small swarovski crystals seem to finish off the jewellery nicely

Resin Jewellery...

I'm really getting into resin & the different kind of jewellery I can make with it. Still very much at the experimental stage but any pieces I feel are worth sharing I'll post the piccies here.
The blue earrings have seed beads & glitter embedded in the resin while the red earrings have a layer of clear resin with shell fragments & finished with a layer of pink resin
This pretty butterfly is clear resin with pink & purple seed beads finished with claret coloured resin.

Blue Angel Jewellery & more...

I made this necklace & earrings set for Just K Jewellery. It's two different blue glass beads with crystal angel wings.


I also made the red cluster bracelet for The Secret Jewellery Boutique. The bracelet is handmade too from large silver jump rings.

The bank holiday weekend has been a total wash out & we've been housebound. I've been experimenting with resin & made these rings. Then I read in the sunday papers that cocktail rings are the "in thing". Not sure if my rings would qualify as cocktail rings but they are definitely fun costume jewellery. I've kept the round one in the middle for myself but will put the star rings on my websites

More Jewellery...

Nick's been in Cyprus for the past three days on business - due home late tonight. I made this bracelet for The Secret Jewellery Boutique. It's got loads of flower beads & the colours give it a real vintage feel

I also made the sweet hearts below for Camille's Strawberry Tea fundraiser for Breast Cancer Care. As you can see the pink ones are keyrings & the purple ones are fridge magnets.

I must make another batch of sweet hearts for The Secret Jewellery Boutique - at present I only have them for sale in Just K Jewellery

ArtSpace....

We went to ArtSpace yesterday which is held at the Barn Galleries near Henley on Thames. Absolutely fabulous!! There were some lovely bronzes & ceramics but I love the sculptures & metalwork that they display in the gardens best. Most pieces are way out of my league financially - and would look completely out of place in my little bit of suburbia - but it's so inspirational to see what these talented people can create.

Back to reality - I made these pretty vintage style earrings for The Secret Jewellery Boutique

More Jewellery...

I haven't coiled wire for ages & had forgotten how satisfying it is. The earring below are hand coiled & I used these attractive chunky ceramic beads to finish the earrings.

I used Nick's photos of flowers in two of the pendants below & the other one is resin that I have

tinted to create the gold/orange colour

All this jewellery is in The Secret Jewellery Boutique