No Thrifting Tuesday....

:(  I just could not find the right clothing item to post today!  But on the bright side I made a new necklace which really, for me, feels like summer.  I think I have started a theme for this week, all the jewelry I have made recently is out of some sort of white colored stone.  I really got inspired by the fresh, clean feel of white on white recently, and I realized that I don't have a lot of white jewelry.  When I think of white on white clothing looks, like those that have graced the runway for this spring, images of warm, sunny beaches, and tropical locales fill my mind.  Obviously, who doesn't enjoy those images!?  :)  I also got a little inspiration for this particular necklace from my favorite ancient culture.....Ancient Egypt!  I really want to go and see the Cleopatra Exhibit that is on display at the Cincinnati Museum Center right now....(I have kind of been in love with Egypt since I was a kid.)  :) 
The necklace that I made for your enjoyment today is a kind of bib necklace with Italian White Onyx, Gold Coral Beads...(which makes it even more beachy!)  And a really cool free gift stone, a white rectangular looking  bead.  Not sure what type of stone it is, but it is really sparkly in the light.  It was free with my last order from Fire Mountain Gems.


Runway looks for Spring 2011:

Alexander Wang

Band of Outsiders

Beachy image that comes to mind:

Result!:

Wire Wrapped Wednesday, January 19

This week's wire wrapped Wednesday post is a necklace that I made using a piece of pink wire I randomly found in my jewelry making supplies.  The interesting part about the wire is that it is actually 6 or 7 years old.  The wire was a scrap left over from my junior or senior year in high school when I made these wire wrapped candle Christmas gifts for all of my friends.  I was so excited to find it, and I had to use it for this necklace.  There was only a small piece left, and I used the whole scrap for this project.  I wrapped a piece of Italian onyx from Fire Mountain Gems as the main pendant, and then made it kind of into a tassel look with little purple beads dangling off of it.  The purple glass bead at the top also has significance, because I got that bead when I was in high school with my dad at the Pendleton Art Center down in over the Rhine.  My dad's friend Litsa used to own an art gallery there, now her gallery is Art Design Consultants near downtown Cincinnati.  We used to go to the old Pendleton building once a month for Final Fridays, a fun art event on the last Friday of the month.