A creative weekend:-)

I woke up yesterday morning feeling very creative. I was almost wishing I was a painter so that I could dwelve into the world of art! I decided that rather than painting really poor paintings, I would channel my creativity into making jewelry. So, both yesterday and today I have spent quite some time making necklaces, earrings and bracelets. Here are some photos to document this weekend's creativity.

Hope is pink

Black crystal earrings with hearts

Necklace made with brown beads, as I often have missed having something in brown:-)

Red love

A symphony of green harmony

Different shades of grey

Colors of fall

Locked in hapiness

Joy of orange

Butterflies and cream

Crystal clear butterflies

Happy butterflies

Little black angles

Little silver angels, earrings

Little crystal clear AB angels, earrings

Wings of purple

Memory wire bracelet made with sodalitt beads in different sizes

Memory wire bracelet made with purple and white beads

Memory wire bracelet made with cream, gold and green beads

Memory wire bracelet made with broen and pink beads

Memory wire bracelet made with pink and burgundy beads

Long time no see!!

I am almost ashamed of how long it has been  since I last blogged!! It is not as I haven't made any jewelry, cause I have, - I just haven't felt like writing about it:-)
A lot has happened since I last posted in April, but I am not going to mention everything. I will just say that I have had a nice 3-week vacation in the States this summer and that my husband and I took part in a local community day here where we live, called Herredagen. He showed his local art there, while I showed some of my jewelry. I will include a few photos taken there. I will also post some photoes of some of my newer jewelry pieces. Notice the "fancy" names I have given them :-)

Me at our stand at Herredagen

Roman with some of his paintings at Herredagen

Roman and Herre motives

Both Norwegian and American motives

Our set-up!

Floral Happiness of Blue (Necklace and Earrings)NOK 200,-

Pink Wisdom and Hearts (Necklace and Earrings)NOK 200,-

Joy of Grey and White Dragonflies (Necklace and Earrings) NOK 200,-

The Key to Peace (Necklace and Earrings) NOK 200,-

Burgundy and White love (Necklace and Earrings) NOK 200,-

Love of Black and White Floral Harmony (Necklace and Earrings) NOK 200,-

Wisdom of Purple and White Hearts (Necklace and Earrings) NOK 200,-

Forever Green and White Just For You (Necklace and Earrings) NOK 200,-

New sets of bracelets and earrings.

This weekend I have mostly been finishing up orders, but today I have devoted all my time to creating new pieces. I have started a store at epla.no and I needed something that I could put out for sale there. So among other things I made some bracelet and earring sets.

Bracelet (21.5cm) made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 8mm purple crystal rondelles and 10mm purple crystal rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on tiger tail wire. Matching earrings made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 10mm purple rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on real silver wire and hooks.

Bracelet (21,5cm) made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 8mm cobolt blue crystal rondelles and 10mm cobolt blue crystal rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on tiger tail wire. Matching earrings made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 10mm cobolt blue rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on real silver wire and hooks.

Bracelet (20,5cm) made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 7mm black twisted crystal rondelles and 12mm black crystal rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on tiger tail wire. Matching earrings made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 10mm black rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on real silver wire and hooks.

Bracelet (21,5cm) made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 8mm turquoise crystal rondelles and 12mm turquoise crystal rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on tiger tail wire. Matching earrings made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 10mm turquoise rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on real silver wire and hooks.

Bracelet (21,5cm) made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 6mm green crystal bicones and 10mm green crystal rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on tiger tail wire. Matching earrings made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 10mm green rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on real silver wire and hooks.

Bracelet (21,5cm) made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 6mm light green crystal bicones and 12mm light green crystal rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on tiger tail wire. Matching earrings made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 12mm light green rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on real silver wire and hooks.

Bracelet (21,5cm) made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 8mm light blue crystal AB rondelles and 12mm light blue crystal rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on tiger tail wire. Matching earrings made with 6mm clear crystal rondelles, 12mm light blue rondelles, antique silver colored beadcaps and 2mm metal beads on real silver wire and hooks.

Last night I sat down to make some more earrings. I decided to experiment a little making my own hoops as I don't really feel I am any good at it. The copperthread is somehow too soft and I can never get my hoops as round as I like. Yesterday I decided to try ans find something round to shape them around, and I felt that it went a little bit better than before. I still struggle with ending the hoop though and it seems like that will always be my demise! I wish I could find a better technique!
Then afterwards when I wanted to take pictures of everything I had made, I struggled with that as well. I suspected that it had to do with poor lighting and decided to try again during the day today. Luckily it went a lot better today. So today I haven't really made anything new, I have just shot photos of the stuff I made last night as well as previously made jewelry.

Here is the result of last nights jewelry making session:-)

 Hoops made with blue swarovski teardrops (11mm), 

 crystal clear swarovski rondelle beads (4mm), dark blue swarovski square cubes (4x4mm) 

and crystal clear swarowski bicone beads (4mm)

 

Hoops made with blue swarovski teardrops (11mm), 

 crystal swarovski bicone beads (4mm), aquamarine swarovski stars (8mm) 

and crystal swarowski rondelle beads (4mm)

 Hoops made with violet swarowski butterflies (6mm), 

white swarovski rugby beads, crystal swarovski dbl vertibra (3mm), 

matt silverplated stoppers, AB purple swarovski rondelle beads (6mm) 

and crystal swarovski rondelle beads (4mm)

 Hoops made with crystal AB swarovski rondelle beads (6mm)

faux silver stoppers (4mm), aquamarine swarowski rondelle beads (6mm) 

and crystal clear swarovski rondelle beads (4mm)

 Hoops made with amethyst swarovski rondelle beads (8, 6, 4mm) 

and crystal clear bicone (4mm)

 Hoops on hooks with amethyst swarovski beads (8, 6, 4mm) 

and faux silver stoppers (4mm)

Small hoops made with tibetan silver spacer (4x7mm), 

jet black swarovski beads (8 and 4mm) 

and crystal clear swarovski rondelle beads (4mm)

Hoops with crystal clear swarovski tear drops (11mm), 

jet black swarovski rondelle beads (4mm) 

and soot swarovski rondelle beads (6mm)

 I also made some other earrings:

 Studs with violet swarovski butterflies (6mm), 

crystal clear swarovski beads (6mm) and violet swarovski bicone beads (4mm)

 Studs with copper swarovski butterflies (6mm), white swarovski rugby beads, 

tibetan silver spacer beads (4x7mm) 

and brown swarowski rondelle beads (6mm)

 Hooks with dark blue swarovski rondelle beads (8mm), 

crystal clear swarovski rondelle beads (8mm), light blue swarovski rondelle beads (6mm) 

and faux silver stoppers (4mm)

Hooks with crystal clear swarovski rondelle beads (8mm), 

dark and light blue swarovski rondelle beads (6mm) 

and faux silver stoppers(4mm)

 My favorites of the evening:-) 

Studs with jet black swarovski butterflies (6mm), 

jet black swarovski beads (8mm) and crystal clear swarovski bicone beads (4mm)

 Last but not least I also made a bracelet to go with the millefiori earrings I had made earlier:

A European Charm Bracelet made with silver plated murano lampwork charms 

and. tibetan spacer beads

All in all it turned out to be a productive and good evening:-)