Handmade Jewellery and Dreamcatchers - Pic Heavy

[squishy]

Hi Guys,

I've just joined this forum and thought I'd show off a few things I've made recently. I make handmade jewellery and dreamcatchers as a hobby. I'd like to hear peoples opinions on them as I would like to make a business out of it at some point. I have been doing jewellery making for several years now, starting off with basic bead stringing and then moving on to wire wrapping. I've just recently moved on to silversmithing, having done a two day course at Leeds Art College last year and now just teaching myself as I go along. I've also done a little lampworking (making glass beads) recently. I like to use natural materials where I can, I have a very extensive collection of semi-precious and precious stone beads which I use in my jewellery. I have also been making dreamcatchers for a few years now, since I was in school in fact where they won an award from the Young Enterprise Sheme (a business scheme for 6th formers where you create your own company and sell products you have made) for best product that year

So here are a few things I've made recently - any comments welcome!

Copper and garnet necklace.

Copper and red coral earrings

Copper and rhodochrosite earrings

Stirling Silver and amethyst dreamcatcher earrings

Stirling silver and amethyst earrings

Copper and rhodochrosite earrings

Copper and chrysocolla pendant

Stirling silver and amethyst dreamcatcher necklace

Stirling silver, rhodochrosite and amazonite earrings

Silver plated tree of life pendant with carnelian beads.

Copper bracelet with fire polished glass beads.

Copper ring.

Copper and fire polished glass bead ring.

Handmade dreamcatcher



Thanks for looking

Rachael x

 

[bikebum1975]

Nice looking work good luck on the business.

 

[squishy]

thanks v.much

 

[Dreadhead]

some great work there. i like those red coral earings they look like rowarn berries in a copper nest very nice

 

[HillBill]

Nice one Rach.

 

[squishy]

thanks yeah, its meant to be a bird's nest with eggs

 

[Woadhart]

The silver and amethyst work well together too.

 

[Harvestman]

Rachael.

Welcome to the forum.

My wife came into the room to tell me about how she wanted some amethyst and silver earrings as an anniversary present this year just as I opened this thread. She saw your dreamcatcher earrings and necklace and said "Oooh, they're nice"

You could be in business here...

I'd be interested in knowing more.

 

[squishy]

Thanks guys

Harvestman - fee free to PM me if you'd like anymore information on anything you've seen, or would like

 

[swright81076]

Nice work. I used to make wire trees and scorpions. Very therapeutic.

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[woodpoet]

Nice mix of jewellery. My partner likes them as well.

 

[squishy]

Thanks everyone

 

[swright81076]

This was my attempt at a tree of life.

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[squishy]

Oooh I've always wanted to make one of those, just never got round to it. I have a little collection of ones I've bought over the years. Did you find it easy to do? How much wire did you use?

This was my attempt at a tree of life.

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[swright81076]

It was quite easy to make, the hardest part was arranging the branches once it was finished. From memory I had a couple of metres of old 10mm cable left over from fitting a shower. So roughly about 20 lengths of copper about a metre long.



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[squishy]

Cool, I'll have to have a go one day. I love gemtrees.

It was quite easy to make, the hardest part was arranging the branches once it was finished. From memory I had a couple of metres of old 10mm cable left over from fitting a shower. So roughly about 20 lengths of copper about a metre long.



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[Tengu]

Oh, isnt that good? You see so much uninspired jewelry these days...these are really talented

 

[squishy]

Oh, isnt that good? You see so much uninspired jewelry these days...these are really talented

thanks tengu

 

[RichardIT]

Love the Silver plated tree of life pendant with carnelian beads

 

[squishy]

Thanks Richard I'm planning to make a collection of those using different types of beads.

Love the Silver plated tree of life pendant with carnelian beads