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necklace: amythest & tourmaline

Antiquity Travelers — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:20:07 GMT

Amethyst & tourmaline briolette cut stones set in gold with vermeil findings. There is are matching earrings to this necklace

Pearl Necklace

Antiquity Travelers — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:10:10 GMT

Another installment from my Turkish friend. Along with the coral beads she inherited from her mother, she also received this beautiful old strand of pearls. I restrung them using lapis lazuli as a highlight throughout the setting. She also decided she wanted a focal bead so I brought in several for her to choose from and she decided that the Chinese enamel was the style she wanted. They look amazing on her!

Hammered Earrings: St Tropez

Antiquity Travelers — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:28:54 GMT

This is a continuing series of pieces I've made for a friend who has a seemingly endless love of turquoise and silver. See Turquoise Necklace: St Tropez, Turquoise Bracelet: St Tropez Set, Turquoise Earrings: St Tropez Set.

This is the first pair I made for her when she lost one of her favorite silver hoop earrings and her fiance texted me a picture of the remaining hoop and asked if I could make a new pair. I did the obligatory trip to the silver store (Metaliferous - a wonderful store in Manhattan, but can be found online) and bought a straight up pair of hoops. But then I also grabbed some thick gauge silver (15g) and did my own version of hammered silver hoops.

If you check out the other pieces I've done for her, you'll notice that this is the simpliest jewelry I've made for her. She loves to wear complicated jewelry and she can pull it off since she is tall and thin with has beautiful long dark hair.

Necklace: Spring

Antiquity Travelers — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:35:39 GMT

A fun, whimsical piece I made for my niece's birthday. Mixed media necklace using a shear white ribbon and glass flower beads. The beads create the lower chain and hang ad a cluster to create a focal point.

Gothic wirework drop necklace

BeadFancy310 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:39:09 GMT

This necklace was a gift I made for my little sister.

I was going for an art nouveau-like style. The frame was hand-forged using color-coated copper wire, the rest was simply adding chain along with attaching copper-plated glass drop beads.

She loved it :))