April 25th, 2008
I’ve used wire in my jewellery right from the get-go. In the beginning it was merely something to string beads onto, only later did it becom a tool for making findings, beaded chains, jump rings and then chainmail. But it wasn’t until I got into wire-wrapping semi-precious gems that I really began to think differently about wire. I’d seen wire knitted before, in pretty necklaces and bracelets in the market but I thought it too difficult, especially if I was going to to it with knitting needles. That would be a feat and a half!
Maman had a blanket she was crocheting for Candy’s room that she had left off because she was busy with work, and I, wanting to do some more crocheting, offered to finish what I could. And as I was sitting and crocheting my eyes happened to drift to the spool of 24g wire sitting on my desk (Among other beading paraphernalia) and I looked at it, and then the crocheting in my hand and something just clicked. I could crochet the wire! Read the rest of this entry »
April 7th, 2008
Naughty, naughty Mimzy is. I was supposed to be making some more jewellery, but instead I got distracted by sorting out (some of) my beads. I don’t usually get the urge so I wasn’t going to waste it, and the whole day went with my beads being sorted and put into places. While rummaging, though, I came across something I had made way back when I was 15. That’s a little over three years ago, it sounds like not much, but I’m a lot more mature than I was back then, so it’s a long time in my mind.
But the thing. It looks a little like a wire and bead dream catcher. It’s not pretty, far from, but it’s something I did, and I for some reason felt loathe to salvage it for wire and the beads. So in a moment of strange nostalgia I hung it in my room and let it be. Read the rest of this entry »
March 31st, 2008
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March 17th, 2008
And welcome to the wonderful world of Emma and Jewellery! Yaaaay! Dance with me.
Well recently I’ve been working on, intermittently with having to get this site up with content, something quite unlike anything I’ve done before. I saw somewhere, and of course I can’t for the life of me think where, doughnuts of semi-precious stone. At the time I was in my “Hey-that’s-cool-can-I-do-it-in-polymerclay-?” mode and decided to make a few random coloured ones. I really had no idea what to do with them so I shoved them in a baggies somewhere and forgot all about them until I stumbled across them last Saturday. That seems to be a regular thing with me, doesn’t it? Me leaving things somewhere and then chancing over them again. Never happens to the stuff I want to find, though.
Anyway. I found them again and I decided the best way of decorating them and turning them into a nice necklace was to hang chain and beads off them. It is the only way really, bar doing oddles of wire noodles about it, and I don’t have the wire for that, not the money to buy more wire.
But the, as I shall now call them, “doughnut cascade necklaces” have turned out pretty well, I’ll certainly upload a few pictures once I finish them completely.
