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. 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 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 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 a dark brown, beautifully symmetrical oval of sea glass wrapped in oxidised copper wire and hung on black leather thong. I always melt the end of my wires into a small blob before wrapping and this oxidises the wire, sometimes I clean it off, but I like the effect on the copper so I've left it there. As I work the wire bits of it flake off to reveal really pink clean wire so you get a nice contrast. The effect is of something dug out of the ground and I think the crossed wires look as if they might have a ritual significance. They don't of course it's just the way the wires go to give the least amount of wire across the glass. This is quite masculine and looks vaguely celtic or saxon, it's also suitable for girls of course. The pendant hangs on a fine, 1mm diameter, black leather thong which is adjustable for length to a maximum of about 600mm or 24". It should fit over most heads! I recommend not lengthening beyond this as if the knots get too close to each other they are really difficult to loosen again. The pendant itself measures a little under 2.5cm (1") by 1.5cm ( alittle over 1/2") aproximately. Vintagebeadery Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:36:31 +0000 http://folksy.com/items/2488677 http://folksy.com/items/2488677 Beach Amulet Surfer Pendant Pretty delicate bracelet, with a beaded daisy flower created around a little rainbow moonstone cabochon. The petals are created with brick stitch needle weaving with tiny seed beads. The bracelet itself is a narrow rope of circular beading with four green beads, one bead is a lighter more sparkly one which gives a subtle spiral effect around the rope. The fastening is a wide loop of beads on the reverse of the dais,y with a little T bar on the end of the rope which slides through the loop to lock on the other side, a bit fiddly but manageable. The rope is flattened to a 2 bead strip at the end so it lays better under the daisy. Vintagebeadery Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:24:40 +0000 http://folksy.com/items/2435881 http://folksy.com/items/2435881 Moon Daisy Bracelet