Year of Jewellery project catch up!!!

Photo Heavy post of all the YOJP I forgot to show!....

Week 27 (Jul 4) - Birthstone of the Month: Ruby

Week 28 (Jul 11) - Beach, Sun, Water!

Week 29 (Jul 18) - Let the Games Begin

Week 30 (Jul 25) - Angles

August

Week 31 (Aug 1) - Birthstone of the Month: Peridot

Week 32 (Aug 8) - Inspired by my Favourite Fictional Character

Week 33 (Aug 15) - Draw It First (& show drawing with the finished piece)

Week 34 (Aug 22) - Life is a Beach

Week 35 (Aug 29) - Sunrise/Sunset

September

Week 36 (Sept 5) - Birthstone of the Month: Sapphire

Week 37 (Sept 12) - Leaves

Week 38 (Sept 19) - Dangles

(Prong Wrap tutorial by Lonely Soldier Designs)

Week 39 (Sept 26) - Vintage Inspired

Now just the rest of the weeks to catch up, I hope your all having a lovely day x

June Year of jewelry project

Some how I have managed to keep up with the yaer of jewellery project (well just about)....

Week 23 (Jun 6) - Birthstone of the Month: Pearl (erm no, it's not pearl but it's cute)!

Treasure Locket

Week 24 (Jun 13) - Something Old + Something New (YES, old made new)!

Very Special Treasure Locket 

Week 25 (Jun 20) - My Dad's Favourite Colour (no a miss on this one my dad dose not have a favourite colour)!

My AJE Fire Fly Piece

Week 26 (Jun 27) - One of My Country's Symbols (again no, but I think these are really sweet!)

Lampwork and Tourmaine Earrings

Fingers crossed I am hoping to get more blogging in this month, so my poor abandoned blog should be feeling more loved, so I will see you all very soon!

January Year of jewelry project

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I joined up with the facebook The Year of Jewelry Project again this year and although I think I have shown most of these I thought it would be nice to have them all in a post together with the weekly themes (which I am trying hard to stick to), so here goes....

Week one - A Personal Talisman for my Year

These hidden treasure locket have by far been my most popular design ever, also six pence's are supposed to be lucky in the UK!

Week two - Birthstone of the Month: Garnet

This piece was a special commission for the daughter of a very lovely lady. It's extra special as the coins are from the recipients year of birth (I hope she likes it)!

Week three - Try a Tutorial!

This piece is from the AMAZING book by Lisa Barth, Timeless Wire Weaving and I love it!

Week four - Hammer It!

The start of my modern princess collection, Cinderella Earrings. Disc's coin hammered.

Week five - Squares

This week I was rather busy with a last minute commission, so I made super sweet and simple prong set moonstone studs!

Have a wonderful day lovely people x

Year of Jewellery wk 5 & 6

I'm already a week behind but hey life happens!
For week 5 the prompt was Mid-Winter Memories, well this was started mid winter and then just sat there half done for ages, so I finished it off....

Labradorite set in sterling silver with a 4 in 1 chain maille bracelet and beautiful butterfly clasp by daisy chain extra.

With a cute cut out heart detail on the back, a little secret just for the wearer!

The beautiful flash from the stone, which unfortunately chipped a little, while in the tumbler (note to self labradorite is not to go through the tumbler hand polish only) so I have to keep this one!

Week 6 prompt was Medals and Coins which lead to this simple idea....

I love this butterfly bead from Mandrel2 and put it with a lentil bead that I made from two sixpence coins (I have made a few of these as they look very cool) then added a matching head pin by Earth shine beads and hung the lot on a black cord that I got from the Swarovski shop (I love the little silver caps on the ends of the cords it just adds a really lovely finishing touch to it).

Hopefully it wont take long to catch up again but for now I am off to enjoy half term with the kiddies, have a great day! xxx

Happy New Year/YOJ

My first post of 2014!

I really hope you all had a great Christmas and a fab new year, I had a quiet one with the other half and the kids (well as quiet as you can have with four children at Christmas!)

New year was particularly fun as we let Mess Maker stay up and she and I danced to the music while watching the fireworks over Big Ben on the TV (five year olds are soooo much more fun to dance with then teenagers!) 

I decided this year to actually make some new years resolutions/goals for 2014, I just have not finalised them yet (I promise I will share once I have), but one of them was to join The Year Of Jewelry Project I really enjoyed all the challenges I joined during 2013 and found a lot of the time it was just the thing I needed to stay motivated and to try new things.

So here is Week One - Something new for me....

New to me because I don't use cords, I'm a wire girl through and through, but I did buy quiet a few of these so you will be seeing more!

The beautiful lampwork beads are by Kerribeads and the fantastic feathers are by EB Bead and Metal Works!

I hope this year is your best yet! X