Just a bit of fun

Sat down and made a few pairs of earrings yesterday with the cute coloured flowers I bought last week. I always wear my Swarovski vintage crystal ones so I thought I needed a bit more fun.

In My Shells - Carnelian

I added some large teardrop shaped carnelian beads to this necklace to add some extra zing.

In My Frame - Necklaces in the Making

I've been doing a bit of fiddling.

I want to attach this flower piece to this necklace.

And this one to either the black or the metallic below.

I know black goes with everything and so does the metallic and is a nice change to black.

And still fiddling with this.

Beaded Trim Necklaces

These are a two of my favourite necklaces at the moment. The trim is a beautiful French beaded ribbon and the bottom is a mixture of clear crystal quartz and black onyx with swarovski crystals and freshwater pearls.

I also use the trims for the feather collars and capes.

The earth's jewels

I had a play around yesterday with the shells I bought on the Gold Coast on the weekend.
I am going to make a hanging shell necklace with some pearls, swarovski crystal chain and clear quartz.

Chinese Influence

Well today has turned out to be a beautiful day in Brisbane. What you'd expect Sunny Queensland to be.


I have just come back from a little girl's 6th birthday party. Whilst there I was chatting to some of the mother's there about their passions. One mother makes silversmith style jewellery, another crochets wild and unique items and another can whip up a dress in a few hours.

This all came about because DH (my PR Manager) wore a necklace I made for her at a party last week and some of the women were enquiring about it.

This necklace was influenced because of all the many home magazines and interior design blogs I read. Many of them feature these beautiful blue and white porcelain chinese ginger jars, vases, boxes, teapots, lamp bases and the list goes on. So when I came across these beads, they very much reminded me of them.

Above are some vases on the ada&darcy blog. And below is Pierre Frey fabric courtesy of Ada&Darcy aswell.

So when I started fiddling with the beads I found that they just looked beautiful with so many colour combinations.

I mixed them up with brooches, swarovski crystals, semi-precious stones and ribbons.


Who haven't the Chinese influenced?