So many posts, so little time...

I wasn't planning on posting anything today but I tried my hand at making some jewellery, so thought I would show what I've done.

First, I made a pair of earrings. I found some fly charms, some leaves, some gold beads and some findings. All were nearly the same colour and I wanted something to stand out so I got some nail polish (another of the things I hoarded at some point or other in my life) and painted the wings of each fly. I then strung some beads onto a couple of eyepins and attached the leaves to there, and attached both the flies and leaves to another jump ring to put on the earrings.

I also wanted to make a necklace. I've got a bicycle charm and I wanted to make a necklace out of it, to go with the Lindy Bop dress I bought a couple of weeks ago. I haven't got any chain apart from silver which wouldn't work, so I dug through my stash and found some chain fragments in the right colour, and some eyepins, pearls of two different colours, and some stepper charms that said love. Stringing them all together I came up with this.

As you can see I got my nail polishes out for this charm as well!

Here are the love stepper charms. I am quite new to jewellery making so didn't know what they were for initially, but google saves us all.

So there it is. I've tried it on and it sits perfectly. The good thing is I have a few more of these fragments so I can make another necklace if I want.

Happy crafting

Ems

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