I went from sparkly little girl necklaces to a beach-combing, sustainable piece this week.
It uses nettle string through drilled bone, small turquoise beads and beach finds to make an environmentally friendly necklace.
The finds include a piece of a whistle, and a tube lid. It also has a piece of pau shell, a mother of pearl offcut and a disc from an old necklace. The copper clasp is bound to the nettle string using old electrical copper wire.
I can’t believe it’s been so long since I posted. I got caught up in the pandemic in Japan early in 2020 and haven’t posted since. Here we go though:-
My granddaughters asked me to make them necklaces using bits from my workshop last week; and here are the finished pieces.
They both use pearls from Puri, glass waist beads from Togo and crystals from Prague; one has a pierced silver scrap piece that I got from a fellow art student and the other a pierced mother of pearl piece from a different friend.
They are simple and shiny because they are for small children. I’ll pop them in the post today and they’ll arrive for Chinese New Year.
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