Amethyst teardrop pendant

Another simple wirework pendant, done in amethyst and silver.

 

Name:  N/A

Price: $15

Length:  2 inches tall including bail x approx. 1 inch wide

Lapis Lazuli pendant

Simple lapis lazuli rectangular pendant wrapped with tarnish-resistant wire.

 

Name:  N/A

Price:  $15

Length:  Pendant is 2 inches tall (including bail) x approx. .5 inch wide

Bound Heart necklace

Back when I first started making jewelry as a kid, in part thanks to my Dad making special "date" trips to my favoritest store in the whole wide world with me, I wanted to make my Mom a necklace.  So we went, and I picked out a rhodonite heart bead and several pink lepidolite rounds for an illusion necklace.  I strung it (with Dad's help and a lot of frustration) on some poor-quality, very weak gold-colored wire, and was never happy with it, but Mom kept it nonetheless though she never wore it.  About two years ago, I found it in her jewelry culls to be thrown away, so I took it to redo.  It sat in my bead box until last night, when I finally came up with a plan to use it and some of the remaining rhodonite rounds I got for her opera-length necklace from this fall.
I wanted to do something fun and creative, so I used silver wire and wrapped both ends (it had two holes for stringing I utilized) to make it a link pendant, then I strung the rest of the necklace off-center so the heart would stand upright when worn.  This was the result.
I used silver wire, Beadalon beading wire, rhodonite, blackstone, and a lot of silver.

 

Name:  Bound Heart

Price:  $25

Length:  just over 20 inches

Amethyst Blossom Vine pendant

This is what I do on quiet, rainy Friday evenings since I'm not dating.  I was half-watching a Ninja Gaiden walkthrough, letting my hands tease ideas from my brain for the pendants I have lying around.  Throw in a batch of homemade popcorn, a glass of milk, and a cat for company and, well, this was the result.
This pendant is a nice piece of amethyst, wrapped with a tarnish-resistant brass wire vine and Swarovski bicone "buds", accompanied by pressed glass leaves.  I didn't follow a guide, or any photo for inspiration, just let it tell me what it wanted to be.

 

Name:  Amethyst Blossom Vine pendant

Price:  $25

Length:  pendant is approx. 2 inches by 1 inch, including bail

Shades of Gray

I've had this Crazy Lace Agate donut pendant for even longer than my Dragon and Phoenix.  I remember purchasing it when I was housesitting for my sister one fall.  I originally braided some thread and just wore it around my neck that way, but I was never really happy with it.  So I set it asid in my bead box for years, never quite finding anything that really worked with it.  Finally, one of the sites I use for supplies got in some rounds that matched it (a lot of crazy lace agate has a brown cast to it, but my donut is entirely shades of gray), so I bought a strand thinking it was 16" like most strands are and some gunmetal gray wire.  Turns out the strand of beads was only 8" so I had to get even more creative with my wirework for the necklace to be a decent length.  I chose the link style I made because it looked vaguely Celtic.  I used up my remaining silver wire for contrast, and the rest is done in the gunmetal.  Also made my first S-shaped clasp.  Very different from what I usually do, but I really like it.



Name:  Shades of Gray

Price: $40 (reason: wirework)

Length:  18 inches

Blue Butterflies

This is the second piece I (mostly) got done during Bead Day with my niece.  I thought the wire-wrap links looked a bit like butterflies, as did the colors I used.  I've mostly stuck with silver wire for projects as it's readily available, but decided to play with some blue I had (also have green and orange).  It was fun experimenting.  And it turned into a decent bracelet.

 

Name:  Blue Butterflies

Price:  $15

Length:  about 8.5 inches

Blood and Silver earrings

These earrings are to match the necklace in the previous post.  The wire links and the earwires are handmade.  The pair took about an hour.  I used the same smoky-gray and dark red Bloodstone as in the necklace.

 

Name:  Blood and Silver earrings

Price: $15

Length:  about 1.5 inches (from tallest part of earwire loop)

Blood and Silver

On my trip home this weekend, I came across some fascinating Bloodstone rounds.  Unlike most Bloodstone I've seen, these were not the usual green spattered with red.  The rounds, approximately 8mm (larger than I usually use), are a deep, smoky gray that borders on black with darker red spatter.  I knew I just had to experiment with them, so bought two strands.  This is the result of the first idea I came up with.  This necklace is my second extreme wirework project--every link was hand made, as were the findings.  This took at least three hours!

 

Name:  Blood and Silver

Price:  $35

Length:  22.5 inches