

Probably you have heard several times the maddening question from customers: "Can you make someting simple and small this time?" Aaaaaarghhhh.... they drive me mad with this... Usually I ignore this, but very seldom I give in... and make very simple undesigned stupid small stuff for them like these....



My friend wanted my "Caged turquoise" necklase so I had to make something similar. But the resemblance betwwen them is only the material... same stones, same wires :) I new I want something assimetric, a big clasp which will be near the pendant... so I first made the parts of the clasp, then the pendant... the rest was only assebling :P
I haven´t made any brooch yet... But it was fun to make, so I´m sure there will be others :)) I can not take good photo of it, this doesn´t shows te fabrics´s texture and the colours correctly...
Felt flowers, beaded chrocheted flower, fp beads, satin ribbon, chains, beaded bead (11/0 matte black sead beads around a 8 mm czech fp), beaded bead (4 mm imitationn pearls with 11/0 matte black seed beads).



To my friend Erika. She choose a beautiful pale gold taffeta dress embellished with gold sequins, so there were not to many options when we had to choose the perfect colours of the beads. The best match was the golden shadow swarovski with the matte sand imitation pearls, and the matte bronze delica. I also used a tiny amount of silver lined gold bead to give a little extra sparkle. The bride was wery happy with the jewels, and I´m waiting for her photos wearing them :)

I haven´t done any wirework in the last few years. I had to produce something during the last workshop. This is really simple design, beacause it had to be easy-to-copy for the beginners ;)
And a quick & cheap trick: if you don´t have coiling tools on hand, don´t panic :) Just bend the end of the wire you want to cover with thin wire. Secure the thinner wire to this "winch". Start to twirl it. For easier use pull a big bead onto the wire so it will be comfortable to hold it. You can cover the wire in minutes ;)