Once again, I am very fortunate to have more items published in the
jewelry Stringing Fall 2016 edition. And this time, there is a link to purchase these on my Etsy store at the end of the post.
Jewelry Stringing has themes and both the bracelets were made with the Southwest Inspiration in mind.
The first is a bracelet with thick turquoise leather cording and lots of charms. The charms are ceramic and hand-painted metal, along with some vintage rhinestones. I really like this leather, but find it is very difficult to cut to size. I found that nursing (or medical) bandage scissors work really well for cutting thick leather.
The second is a bracelet with lots of southwest inspired beads. I love these colors and was just looking for a way to make them all go together. The 3 strands of beads are these cool Picasso Czech glass beads, silver rondels and turquoise-colored howlite. The strand his complete with a suede button loop and silver and turquoise leather tassel. I imagine wearing this with jeans on a cool fall day.
I think these earrings are some of my favorite! I love the mixed metals look and the way they swing when I'm holding them up. These are made with vintage brass tubes, jump rings and some special Japanese seed beads that are actually two colors - gold/bronze and navy blue. There are not too much navy blue, so really they just read more gold/bronze.
And these have been posted on Etsy. I'm also working on some of my older jewelry Stringing published jewelry.
Check it out here:
Bracelet #1
Bracelet #2
Earrings
On a side note, does it bother anyone else that they don't list who contributed or designed the jewelry for bracelets and earrings? This is the first time that
Stringing magazine has not listed the contributors for these pages and they gave no prior information that it would come out like this.
Its making me think whether I would like to have my jewelry published in here. In the past, I was one of those people who be so fascinated with a good design that I would look up the other designers to see what other awesome jewelry they had made. Now, its not possible.
