wynter's beading

Wow!!! this is the blog I thought I lost, I am going to publish it even though I kind of started it again but it is different a bit.

I have been making jewelry for over 10 years now. I started when a friend invited me to a beading party. I was hooked and have been getting braver about making my pieces. I find that I will have a piece almost complete and then undue the whole thing because a new idea came to mind as I was making it. I am always looking for more challenging ideas. I am trying to make enough pieces to put into a farmers market but I find myself giving most of my stuff to friends and family. I have sold some to co-workers and friends but I enjoy just creating pieces and seeing people happy to get them.

I was with my husband and daughter in Bass Pro Shop and found some fishing tackle that looked like they would make great pieces to use for my jewelry, the green stone piece above shows the different types of fishing tackle I used. They are much cheaper then buying the beads that do the same thing and I think it give the pieces character.

I have taken some old vintage brooches and added finding to them to make necklaces, trying to make some Steampunk pieces for my daughter with some old watches that are broken and odds and ends that I find at swap meets and yard sales. I have been buying a lot of old broken jewelry and costume jewelry to make some of my pieces.

It is easy to tell the early pieces that I made when I first started out (limited on how much I could spend) and now, I have just been adding items little by little that allow me to make better pieces. I have also purchased a small loom for weaving beaded bracelets, etc.... still new to that but learning, I made a few items but want to buy a better loom or make myself one.

The red dice set was made by request from a friend in my Bunco group, Bunco is a dice game and after I made one bracelet for myself I got a bunch of orders for more in different colors. I was busy with that for a while and then got to go back to my fishing tackle jewelry with swarovski crystals.

Jewelry

Ever lose a whole blog due to clicking on the X on the wrong page, I am trying to recover now and pretend it never happened. Now trying to do it without losing it again.

I have been making jewelry for over 10 years now. Mostly bead jewelry that started when a friend had a jewelry party that included making your own piece for $10 dollars. It included Swarovski Crystals which I fell in love with and try to use them in most of my pieces. I now make jewelry out of anything I can find and love to look for junk and vintage jewelry at thrift stores and yard sales and even Bass Pro Shop, below are a pair of green stone earrings and bracelet that I used fishing tackle to make. Below that is a set with Swarovski crystals and dice (made for my Bunco Group).

I started making simple bracelets and earrings and I am not trying to make some more challenging pieces. I purchased a small cheap loom and started making some woven pieces, still new to that so working on it. I use crystals, semi precious stones, glass, wood etc....

I try to make sets with earring/necklace/bracelet but I usually just make bracelet and earrings as I don't like to wear necklaces much. I make them if someone wants one. Above are a few of the bracelets I made the first couple of years doing this. The yellow flowers at the top are a stone, the name escapes me at the moment. I like making pieces that sparkle in the sunlight, the piece at the bottom has crystal beads so it does also have a bit of sparkle to it.

I try to use real pearls if I can, the freshwater pearls are very cheap when bought in bulk. The piece above with the pearl necklace and bracelet are fake, it was just made as a sample for the real piece, the bottom has real pearls. Below are some earrings that I made. These are the funnest for me because I wear earrings more then anything else I make. These are some of the first earring I made years ago.

The last earrings above were made using swarovski/pearls and pieces from a vintage necklace that I found at a yardsale, I just took the links apart and used them in various pieces of jewelry, they have a vintage look to them.

I really love using leafs, flowers and fruit beads in my pieces.

this bracelet above is the same as further above but here it has the earrings that were made to go with it.

This last set is my favorite glass set. I love the way the light shines through this aqua blue.

This is just a few of my first pieces that I made, there are many many more to come, I hope you enjoy looking, thank you