Malibu Drop Peals...

A lovely jewelry making sesh on the weekend with some funky ladies. Miss D was hitting the poolside colours of aqua, pearl and chic silver with chrystal. Miss A went tribal making a key ring with chunky beads that wont be lost in a hurry. Miss B got all Christmas spirited and made some gifts for newly acquired in-law type relatives: a necklace in oceanic deep green handmade glass beads, and a drop stone and mother of pearl earring. Miss J bucked the trend and made Christmas pom poms in wildly mismatched colours of Grandma-inherited yarn, Miss H made a delightfully pared back wire, coral and dirty lime necklace for a girlfriend, Miss A experimented with circuit boards and fake flowers to create a high tech bloom broach, and yours truly made a garish aqua, coral and dirty lime necklace for a pow of 80's colour for the office. There was also much creative reuse of limp or lame accessories and some quick and easy repair work. Viva la creative Sunday afternoon.

Hope you're feeling better soon...

A simple card made with collage, buttons

and beads and gouache. For a friend's sick sister. Used a liquid rather than stick glue - the very watery ripple effect in the glued on paper (unintentional!) is the sad result, but at least it matches the watery ripple effect in the paint (intentional). Stick glue I love you.

necklace

Mum gave me a set of stone beads (turquoise maybe?) along with cute fish clasp, ready to thread/ be made to the right length etc. So, as a very satisfying long weekend project I strung them on nylon thread with small greenish glass spacer beads, and seven spacer beads each side before the clasp to make it a little longer. Finished product is rather zippy new necklace. Yah.