Happy New Year

I hope the new year will bring you joy and happiness and will be a lot better than the ones before it

Small dangling lava pearl earrings

I sometimes like to play with different sizes and different styles when I have the same stones. I had made lava pearl earrings that dangle a few days ago but I just got some new stuff and then I wanted to make shorter dangling lava earrings.

These are the ones I made this week. They remind me of a lava necklace I made a few months back and I think they look nice.

Front view:

Swarovski hearts – colorless and blue

I think that the Swarowksi heart necklaces I made are very cute and I might even put a gold wire on one of them to use on a gold chain myself. The only tough part is picking the color I might want to use, since there are so many nice ones!

These are not the usual stones I use in my jewelery since Swarovski makes crystals (mixing glass with lead). So these are more fragile than the other stones I usually use but those crystals sparkle a lot and that is eye-capturing, and sometimes I just like to watch glittery things

Swarovski hearts – pink, red and purple

Since I made a few Swarovski heart necklaces I took pictures of them but wanted to have a few together on each photo to show the difference the color makes. I put the same kind of colors together so these are 3 necklaces, not one with 3 hearts

Swarovski hearts – metal green, yellow and light green

I was ordering an assortment of Swarovski hearts last time I ordered something for my jewelery making and I got a lot of colors.

Since I´ve been rather energetic lately I decided to make a few Swarovski necklaces and see how they look.

These are a few of them:

An amethyst lady

I once bought a strand of amethyst pearls. I took one of those stones and put a small lava pearl next to it and felt it looked like a lady. So this is an amethyst lady with a lava head

Close up:

2009 course, 4th evening

For the 4th evening at the advanced silver smithing course at Tækniskólinn I wanted to make some more necklaces in the same shape as the one made on the 1st evening. I had some different gemstones to put in the bowl-like shape to see how they look different from the one with the white freshwater pearl. I had some cubic zirkonias and a pyrite with fools gold and I made one necklace with each gemstone. The one with the purple zirkonia is the biggest necklace and the one with the pyrite and the fools gold is the smallest.

I really like this shape at the moment and I might make some more necklaces like this with different stones in the near future.

With purple cubic zirkonia

With white cubic zirkonia

With pyrite and fools gold

Earrings – Lava

These earrings I made just to have different types of earrings to choose from. They dangle a lot and have 2 lava pearls of a different size, one larger and one smaller. I think they are cute and the tiny silver “drop” under the small lava pearl, that stops the lava from sliding off the silver wire, I find very nice.

Earrings – Lava and jaspis

These earrings where the ones my coworkers Herdís was most fond of.

They have lava pearls and jaspis the color of beige, light brown and a little gray. The jaspis is a natural rock in and comes in many earthen colors.

Earrings – Red coral and lava

These earrings are made with red coral and small lava pearls. I like how the red color of the coral and the black color of the lava go together!