chunky necklaces

I'm making chunky jewellery for a friend's website.  These are designed to be fastened by ribbon allowing the wearer to determine how short or long the necklaces should be.

Coming soon to the Mango Frooty site near you!

New pendant designs

Myself and him indoors went on a long awaited break to Thailand. Him indoors sat around the lovely posh resort in Chiang Mai and I went on daily little forays to the local markets for exotic snacks, fresh fruit (it's currently mangosteen and lychee season), and of course all the stuff I use to make jewellery and gifts - that left all the locals scratching their heads as to why anyone would want such items.

Just before flying home we stopped off in Bangkok where I managed a trip to the world famous weekend market at Chatuchak and bought more beads, fabrics and silver bits to tide me over for the next few years.

New pendants and jewellery designs are being dreamt up.

First up is a new range of colourful tassel necklaces. The top one is Smoky quartz, Garnet and silver with a cotton tassel. The one below is Amethyst, Carnelian, Serpentine and silver with a green cotton tassel.

More boho chic.

daisy chain necklace - shorter length

Here is a heavier daisy chain necklace made of coral, turquoise, carnelian, lapis, smoky quartz, cloisonne and sterling silver.

As it is a heavier weight I thought I'd make this one a little shorter. It sits perfectly outside your favourite roll neck.

Have a lovely weekend

Silver and gemstone daisy chains

and here is another take on those daisy chain necklaces.

I have been making bead chains for a number of years and although I like them being so delicate I wanted to add a bit of oomph so decided to mix it up with different coloured stones and some of my forged silver circles.

The results are not too shabby: delicate but eye-catching and not too heavy. These are 88cm and 83cm in length respectively.

daisy chains

These are part of a trio commissioned by a contact on my website.

Daisy chains - just in time for Summer!

I hope she likes them.

Have a great weekend all.

wedding jewellery

My niece is getting married so naturally I offered to make her jewellery.

She has a lovely formal but simple long gown - peachy, honey tones with an all over pattern. I always think that pearls are best and simple simple simple rather than statement pieces.

So I made her a selection. I hope she chooses the wraparound bracelet - this is my favorite and imagine it on your wrist on honeymoon at a beach.

daisy chains and chandeliers

More tasselled chandelier earrings and two new daisy chains.

These incorporate some of my hammered sterling silver rings to make the kooky, assymetric daisy chain necklets - perfect for a summer outfit.

Tibetan turquoise and silver hoop necklace

So here is a silver and turqoise necklace for the weekend. The turquoise was found in Kathmandu - in a shop selling Tibetan turquoise beads by the gram. The quality of these beads is better than any I've bought anywhere else: deep deep blue and smooth pebble-like stones.

Some are small, some are big and sadly I didn't buy that many.

Aquamarine, flower charm and silver hoop necklace

A Thai Hill Tribe flower charm and an Indian faceted aquamarine bead makes for a cute little necklace.

Vintage branch coral and turquoise nugget on a silver circle

This is a little different. It's a piece of pink vintage branch coral suspended on one of my silver circles with a chunk of African turquoise.

Could be worn on a thin leather thong or a silver chain.

amethyst and aquamarine necklace

Indian faceted amethysts and an aquamarine nugget make this pastel necklet.

The stones were sourced in India in a back street market in Jaipur I think. Me in salwar kameez haggling badly with a master craftsman in a turban until after endless cups of tea and chats about my then single status I finally left clutching a bag of hard-won treasures. You really don't find this sort of stuff on ebay...

The necklet length is approx 43cm in length - just the thing to circle a graceful neck.

It's made it onto the website here.

Sunday assymetric necklets

It's t shirt weather here in Sydney and I started thinking about the type of things to wear with a t shirt....

Something slightly dippy, delicate and pretty I think so here are a couple of assymetric bead necklaces. They measure 41cm and 39 cm respectively, to circle the base of the neck in a daisy chain sort of way.

I tried having one long necklet doubled.... it didn't work as well as the single strand.

pastel cluster necklace

A pastel cluster necklace on a silver chain - bring out the inner hippy in you.

Amethyst, blue chalcedony, aquamarine, clear quartz,freshwater pearl and sterling silver.

To enhance wisdom, intuition and truthfulness.
For creative thinking, balance and calm.

posh coral necklace

Just the thing to kick-start a new year meeting with...

Vintage branch coral, Tibetan turquoise and sterling silver: To cool tempers, increase self confidence and promote friendship.

Necklace length is approximately 49cm from clasp to pendant. The pendant adds another 6cm to the overall length - so sits below the bustline.

turquoise - hippy luxe

I went away for the weekend. It rained a lot so I wasn't able to see much or go bush riding like I'd planned but there'll be other times.


How about these?
Some turquoise statement necklaces. The chunky pieces of turquoise came from a bead dealer in a street I stumbled on in Kathmandu.

Necklace and bracelets for Friday

Another longish necklace. The Agate slice at the end is quite an end piece for the tigereye and blue enamel beads along the chain. The little orange accents are carnelians. I had a loose kurta top in mind when making this one.


Here are a couple of hippy inspired bracelets for a casual Friday. The tiny turquoise beads on the left are a bit bigger than seed beads - I've graduated the colours so the blue softly works its way into brown.
The coral bracelet uses beads from an old necklace and a bright blue turquoise nugget I bought in Kathmandu.
Just right for the beach.

necklaces

Dark green freshwater pearls and a long butterfly pendant in lighter shades of green, mauve and pink. For a shorter necklace you could wrap the pearls around your neck twice.




This one made up of carnelian and turquoise beads and silver wire. I like the colour combinations: orange and blue and the orange gradient thing going on with the surprise of pink and purple at the end.

I'm thinking these two would be most effective against a simple black top...

frooty pendants

A selection of pendants on leather thonging - except for the brown indian 'tassel' second from left which is hanging from a string of brown tigereye.
Something a bit flirty for summer.

and little girls' jewellery

Here is a little charm necklace made with cloisonne, garnet, blue chalcedony and sterling silver dangling from a white leather thong. Maybe for a summer tea party. I think it goes with the cupcakes.