More Jewelry

I finally ordered more wire, and I finally had a few min to have fun.  So, here are a few of my latest creations.  I will be selling most of these at our friends shop, but I thought I would share a few with you. 

I love this pea-pod charm.  I just think it is so cute.  

These are a new design of mine.  I don't know what to call them so if you have any ideas, let me know.  These are made with a pretty purple crystal.  
This is the same design, but with an orange glass pearl.  I also made a necklace pendent to match this one. 
This is just a new version of twist and spiral.  
Here are my "harps" in a pretty lavender.  
Lovely loops in a pretty hematite bead.  
I really like this design, but the pictures just don't do justice.  They are 3D and really move fun.  This pair is made from copper with a red heart bead with a pretty orange flower.  
This one is silver with a pretty pink bead.  
The photo just doesn't do this one justice.  The bead is so pretty and swirled with shades of blue, and metallics.  
This is another new design.  Earrings with s pretty pendant.  I also made them with light pink and brown and brown and blue.  
Well, there it is.  I have a few more, but I will have to get to them another time.  Thanks for looking.  

A few orders

I had an order for these two necklaces.  This one was made for my sister in law Deak.  She needed it for special dress.  I love the side clasp.  It is made from beautiful raspberry and plum beads wire wrapped with wrapped celtic clover leaves.  I really like the way it turned out.  

This was a tricky order.  A lady down the street wanted me to make this necklace for her.  She wanted a gold pendant to be glued onto a bead.  Not too bad, but then she wanted earth toned beads, silver beads, elephants and turquoise for an accent.  Honestly, it turned out way better than I thought.  

Hats, Hats everywhere

I was so excited with K's cute flower clips and bows, I wanted to think of more ways to use them.  So, I started making little crochet hats.  I got the patterns from this website.  They were relatively quick and easy to make.  (Keep in mind that I am a total beginner, and this is the first fully crochet project I have attempted).  

The doll's hat was the first hat I made. (Obviously way too small)  Thanks to the help of my good friend Lesa, I was finally able to read and follow the pattern as instructed.  Lesa has taught me everything I know about crocheting.  (And she is AMAZING at it)
K's green hat was the last hat I made.  I think it turned out really cute.  
This little pink hat is my favorite, but obviously not K's.  It is such a soft pink, and has such a delicate look.  I love the scallops at the bottom.  
This is another hat I started to make for K, but it was too big so I made it for me.  

The fun thing is, all of these flowers are interchangeable.  They are just on hair clips and easily clip on and off of the hats.  

Humm, I wonder what crazy thing I will do next.  

Spooky Spiders

Okay, I am going to try this blogged tutorial thing.  Here is how I make my spooky spider hair clips

First you have to make the curly ribbon.  (I already used up all my black, so I had to use blue).  To make the ribbon you cut a small dowel rod to the width of your oven.  Clip the end of the ribbon (must be 100% polyester, I just used the cheap spools) with a small clothes pin. Just wrap the ribbon around the dowel.  The closer the wrap, the tighter the coil.  Cut to length and clip the other end with a clothes pin.  

Bake the wrapped rods in the oven at 275 for 20-25 min.  (I lined my oven rack with foil just because it was a little dirty).  Take them out, make sure the coil took (unwrap a little, if the coil doesn't hold put it back in the oven for a few min) and let them cool a few min.  

  
When you are ready to use them, take them off the dowel and you will have this.
I made 2 spiders out of each 20" korker (as they are called).  I cut it in half, then each half in half until I had 8 pieces.
Line 4 up and tie the middle together.  This just helps hold them together while you are gluing.  
The body of the spider is just a knot.  I used the flat, squarish side of the ribbon, it was easier to work with.  
Just glue the korkers to the back of the knot.  Put a bit more hot glue and fold one of the ends over.  I like to "Fray Check" the ends (with "Fray Check", clear fingernail polish, or heat seal the ends).  Then cut the other side to length and fold over to glue.  
I then glued the whole thing onto a little snap clip.  You could use another type of clip, these just stay in K's piggies better.  

Don't forget the googly eyes, and you are done.  
This is a picture of the blue set I made for K.  They were made with 8, 3" korkers and a pink button with ribbon tied through.  

I found most of my info from this website.  The instructions are at the bottom of the page.  

A few more

Lovely Loops were lots of fun to make as soon as I figured out how to wrap the wire at the bottom.  These ones have a little black bead.

This is two different Lovely Loops earrings, they are both copper, one has a purple bead, and the other a pretty blue pearl.
I made this set for my MIL's birthday.  I thought I should take a pic before I give it to her this weekend.  It is a pretty chocolate brown pearl and silver set.  
The necklace was hard to take a good pic of, but I think it turned out so pretty.  It has such a graceful flow on the neck, and I love the chocolate colored pearls.  
This pic is a little better.
Thanks for looking.  

So many earrings

I am selling my earrings at our friends shop.  I took pictures of the earrings to keep track of what I did, and to help with other orders.  I am hopping that this will help families and friends tell me which earrings they want a little easier.  

Here are my Whirled Whimsy earrings in silver and copper.  

These are my Elegance & Whimsy earrings.  I made them in silver and copper.  

These next two are Triangle & Spiral and Square & Spiral.  

This one is Totally Squared with a turquoise glass bead.
Bubbles in silver with a light blue glass bead.
Twist and Spiral in silver with a glass turquoise glass bead. 
Round and Round in silver with a purple glass bead with turquoise and silver splatter.  

This one is my favorite right now.  Harps in silver with a freshwater pearl.

Happy Tear Drops, in copper with a glass watermelon bead, copper with black oiled bead, gold with a black bead, and gold with red lamp work bead.  



Circles in copper with a dark blue pearl. 

For the Record

This blog was set up so I could keep track of my wired creations.  I needed a way to remember what I have done, and how I have done it. If you want to give me any feedback, it would be appreciated. 
This little black set is made out of 20 gage black wire.  The necklace's circles are made from two (12 pieces) curves connected by a pick bead.  The earrings are made from a black wire hoop and a pink bead.  The yellow one bellow, was made the same way.  
This blue and copper one is made the same way, only there is only one half of the curve connected by the blue bead.  The earrings are made with another curve piece with a blue bead inside.