Week 48 Oxidized ring

I have showed this on the forum this week. But I decided to show the finished result here too. I used Iza's Ethnic ring tutorial to make it. It's made with all fine silver wire and small Rhodolite Pink Garnet faceted rondelles. Than I oxidized it. I still need to learn more about the sanding and polishing after doing the LOS thing. But it is the first ever ring I made myself I actually like. I'm now waiting on my wire order to make me some more rings :).

Weak 47 Button earrings

I had so much fun making these earrings. And I'm actually happy with the result. I tried button or post earrings before but never really liked the way they turned out. While I was making them I got a lot of ideas on how to use this technique to make more earrings. These are going to stay with me :). Made with fine silver, silver beads, a tiny pearl and even smaller round garnet beads. I would love to oxidize these but I'm afraid the pearls will turn black as happened with my first try oxidizing a piece with pearls.
With big thanks to Magdalena for writing this tutorial.

Weak 46 More earrings

Simple earrings made with the Chalcedone that Robbie sent me.

Weak 45 Matching earrings

I'm catching up. These are a pair of earrings I made to match the bracelet I made for week 43. Not much to tell about them. Just simple earrings with a bit of coiling and faceted smokey quartz.

Week 44: Favorite Colors

I'm still not caught up. It's not that I'm not making any jewelry but I just don't have the time to make scans (and I'm not even talking about trying out my new camera :( ). My friend who owns a jewelry and bead shop where I also give my workshops is on a vacation to China (she is of Chinese origin) for three weeks and I'm looking after the shop all on my own. Haven't worked a full week in a long time so I'm pretty tired after the first week. And I just caught a bad cold. But I love the work. I sold my first necklace and earrings that where displayed in the shop :). And the big benefit is that I'm surrounded by beautiful beads and I can make jewelry when I have no customers.
Oh and I almost forgot to tell about the necklace. It's made with my favorite colors of the moment. Labradorite, Moonstone, Dark Pearls, Iolite, Blue Chalcedone, Quartz and Silver are all strung on a coated metal wire. I hadn't done any stringing in year but I really enjoyed picking out the beads and deciding where they would go on the necklace :).

Week 43: Smoking Bangle

I'm so behind with YOJ. This bracelet is part of the reason why. It took me double or maybe triple the hours this type of bracelet normally takes me. I did the wires around the beads to tight so coiling was so hard. I had to make room for the wire with a needle for almost every coil I did :(. But now it's finished and I like it a lot. It's made with all Smokey Quartz beads and silver beads. I didn't add to many small beads to the design because I really wanted to let the beads shine. If this one doesn't sell I will be happy to put it in my private collection :). Now I have one problem. I keep making this type of bangle to large. I thought I had the right length of beads but for small wrists it's still to large if I add a "normal" clasp. So now I'm trying to figure out how to make the end loops overlap with some kind of clasp so it will fit small wrists. Any suggestions are most welcome! The bangle looks kind of crocked but that is because I had to make a scan of it which is very hard when you make a bangle with memory wire LOL.
Of course I learned how to make this type of bangle from Eni's tutorial.