Year of Jewellery project catch up!!!

Photo Heavy post of all the YOJP I forgot to show!....

Week 27 (Jul 4) - Birthstone of the Month: Ruby

Week 28 (Jul 11) - Beach, Sun, Water!

Week 29 (Jul 18) - Let the Games Begin

Week 30 (Jul 25) - Angles

August

Week 31 (Aug 1) - Birthstone of the Month: Peridot

Week 32 (Aug 8) - Inspired by my Favourite Fictional Character

Week 33 (Aug 15) - Draw It First (& show drawing with the finished piece)

Week 34 (Aug 22) - Life is a Beach

Week 35 (Aug 29) - Sunrise/Sunset

September

Week 36 (Sept 5) - Birthstone of the Month: Sapphire

Week 37 (Sept 12) - Leaves

Week 38 (Sept 19) - Dangles

(Prong Wrap tutorial by Lonely Soldier Designs)

Week 39 (Sept 26) - Vintage Inspired

Now just the rest of the weeks to catch up, I hope your all having a lovely day x

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Hello Lovely people! August Component of the Month is here already, can you believe it! This months components were these beautiful rustic stoneware coin pendants by the ultra talented Diana P. of Suburban Girl Studio LLC, Diana also wrote a great post showing all the work that goes into making these beauties Here.

Photo by Diana and shamelessly stolen from AJE site as I was so excited to get playing with mine that I did not think to photograph it first! I received a beautiful dark blue one, and here is what I did with it....

Carpe Noctem Necklace

Carpe Noctem, Live for the night! As you may have guessed I was inspired by the beautiful dark blue  colour in this piece! I started by making a copper backing plate so that I could set a 8mm kyanite cab in the centre of the disc, then I went rumaging through my beads looking for treasures with the same colours in.

I ended up choosing a Galaxy lampwork bead by Redayh, a stone star that I got from a lovely little shop in St Ives, a old and rather worn looking ammonite also from Cornwall (I may have been bead shopping on holiday) and a deep blue faceted pearl (that took forever to re-drill and make the hole bigger)!

I love the beautiful texture on these disc's, they really are just wonderful!

And the being worn shot, unfortuntly my model is on holiday so you will have to make do with these rather poor attempts at selfies...

Massive thank you to Diana for gifting us all with these beautiful pieces to work with  and I hope you will join me to see what the AJE team and guests have created....

Guests

Cindy Martin-Shaw

Samantha Wescott

Jenny Kyrlach

AJE Team

Kristen Stevens

Caroline Dewison

Sue Kennedy

Linda Landig

Diana Ptaszynski

Jenny Davies-Reazor & Lesley Watt

Jennifer Cameron

Lindsay Starr

Niky Sayers

 

May Year of jewelry project

So I seem to have pretty much given up on the themes but here are my Year of Jewellery makes for May
Week 18 (May 2) - Birthstone of the Month: Emerald (it has green in it?)
This piece was made for the Bead Peps Swap n Hop....

Week 19 (May 9) - My Mom's Favourite Colour (Can't say I know what my mum's favorite colours is!!)

Week 20 (May 16) - The Elements (they came from the earth?)

Week 21 (May 23) - Victoria's Secret (secret locket)

Week 22 (May 30) - Mixed Media (glass by the lovely Jen Cameron of Glass Addictions, peridot and silver)!