http://folksy.com/shops/Vintagebeadery Welcome to my shop, I make hand made jewellery using sea glass and ceramics washed up on my local beaches in North Devon. The mounts are created using vintage and modern beads. Occasionally I use semi precious cabochons or tumbled stones I also make a few pieces in Silver Clay and other materials. Thanks for visiting I hope you like what you see. en-gb vintage beadery Welcome to my shop, I make hand made jewellery using sea glass and ceramics washed up on my local beaches in North Devon. The mounts are created using vintage and modern beads. Occasionally I use semi precious cabochons or tumbled stones I also make a few pieces in Silver Clay and other materials. Thanks for visiting I hope you like what you see. A smooth naturally formed tear-drop pebble, found on my local beach. The pebble has been very lightly waxed and polished to bring out the colours and then drilled to accept the hand made silver bail mount. The silver mount is held in place with hand made rivets. The pebble measures just over an inch wide at it's widest and about 1 1/4" from top to bottom and hangs from a narrow leather thong. Vintagebeadery Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:37:06 +0000 http://folksy.com/items/2811702 http://folksy.com/items/2811702 Large Natural Pebble Pendant Quirky little heart made by fusing silver wire to a precut brass heart shape. I've recently started experimenting with heating various metals to see what happens. I'm very pleased with how well silver wire fuses to both brass and copper. The effect on this pendant is created by laying a piece of silver wire, which was coiled into a spiral and then trailed downwards, onto the brass shape and then heating it until the silver wire begins to melt, this fuses the silver wire onto the surface of the brass. Obviously heating metal to this extent turns it pretty much black, after cleaning the brass appears to have turned to copper,(I don't know why!) So after polishing the silver I heat the shape again from the back, which produces lovely rainbow colours, along with the original brass colour. This part is tricky as too much heat means the piece needs cleaning again and the process has to start over. The heart hangs from a very thin leather thong in olive green, fastened by a brass bolt ring held in place with hand made spirals of copper wire. The leather thong is approximately 45cm long and the heart measures 4cm at it's longest dimension. Vintagebeadery Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:02:04 +0000 http://folksy.com/items/2895838 http://folksy.com/items/2895838 Melt My Heart brass and silver pendant Small pendant with a copper star over an old bone game counter. The star has silver wire melted onto the surface. This is one of my first experiments with fusing silver wire onto metal surfaces using only heat. The bone counter came from my local antique and collectors market, a bag of died red counters of different sizes, I've bleached this one back to it's natural colour. The star is fixed to the bone counter by means of a handmade pin of copper wire, which is coiled into the hanging loop for the pendant at the back. The pendant hangs from a very fine red leather thong with a copper lobster claw fastener. The overall length is approximately 16". Vintagebeadery Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:51:56 +0000 http://folksy.com/items/2982522 http://folksy.com/items/2982522 Star and Moon Pendant copper and silver