Maiden NZ Jewellery

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.

Here it is

This, funnily enough, inspired me to do a better dream catcher, for a pendant. It’s a little big, and perhaps a little amateurish, but considering I used wire instead of thread I think I did not too badly.
I used shell round beads, white and violet craft wire, 26g silver wire, a hematite loop, a blue foiled bead, 16g silver plated jump rings, leather crimps and white and speckled brown feathers.
I threaded the shell beads on, and then wrapped the white around once, just to keep them secure, then I threaded the violet on like I would if I as making a normal dream catcher with thread. I didn’t pull the wire tight because I like the loopy design, then I simply put the blue and hematite in the middle, bound the jump rings to the beaded edge with the thing wire and put on the crimped feathers. All in all pretty simple.

What do you think?

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