The Holly and The Ivy

Holly!!!

 

 

I never saw live Holly until I moved here, we have some growing in the front yard. It’s a nice looking plant, a bit prickly. I grew up with the plastic stuff; we had wreaths of it, and candle holders and even a transparent bowl with holly inside of it.

 

So while trying to come up with figures of Christmas holly was definitely a contender. But actually holly isn’t Christmasy at all. Holly, ivy and mistletoe were used by pagans to celebrate the winter solstice before Christianity existed. When Christians adopted the winter solstice in the form of Christmas, they also adopted these symbols.

 

 I tried using new methods for holly but none of them worked as well as I wanted, so I stuck with my tried and true source. I hope you enjoy these leaves made of recycled plastic and repurposed wooden beads. Pick up these prickly plants before they’re all gone.

 

 

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Simply Snowflakes

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!

 

As you can see I’m getting ready for Christmas. I love Christmas! I love Christmas music, I love shopping for Christmas presents and trying to figure out what I’m getting my family and friends. I love watching Christmas movies; I used to watch a different movie everyday. I love going to various celebrations and parties. I love preparing for Christmas; I used to have Christmas dinner for my family before moved to England, and I really miss deciding on the menu, picking the décor for the year, decorating the house, buying and decorating my real tree - and if you knew me you’d know that would take a whole day in itself; I’m a bit OCD so my ornaments have to go on in a certain order.

 

I miss all of that! Last Christmas was a bit of a disaster, we had a loved one who was terminally ill and Neil and I spent the whole of the Christmas season at the hospital. Now Neil doesn’t enjoy Christmas at all anymore; he's not in the mood for it with all the other things we have going on. But to me that's even more reason to have a great Christmas, to take your mind off of the troubles of life and celebrate the season. I want to liven up this Christmas but he’s being a bit of a Scrooge. Hopefully he’ll come around.
 

Anyway, I have been busy coming up with and trying out designs for Christmas earrings. Of course again I’m trying to use recycled materials. A lot of the designs are still a work in progress but I figured I could release one of them now.

 

These simple snowflakes are the first of this year’s Christmas line. As you can see I’ve done them in clear and white soft recycled plastic. They are large however they are as light as air. And just like real snowflakes no two are exactly the same.  Get your pair before they melt away.

 

 

 

 



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Genisys

 

Bead Mazes

 

 

 

This is one of the designs I was talking about last week when I said the swirls inspired two new designs. I really like these, possibly more than the swirls. 

 

 

 

 

Again these earrings are made of recycled materials so you can be proud when you wear them. If left in the hands of anyone else these materials may have ended up in a landfill somewhere. But instead they were used to create a lovely piece of jewelry which you could be lucky enough to own.

 

 

 

 

And all my jewelry is handmade and can be made to order, so you don’t have to worry about showing up to an event and someone else wearing the same earrings. Your earrings (like you) are one of a kind!

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Remember, Remember the 5th of November!

Swirls

 

Yesterday was Neil’s birthday, I’d been busy over the past week making sure all my plans were falling into place. Plus last week was Halloween, although I didn’t have any parties to go to or costumes to coordinate I was in a festive mood and wanted to focus on the holiday. That doesn’t mean that I wasn’t busy though! I’m always thinking, dreaming and planning new designs or new materials to use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 A while ago I made these swirls. I’ve adapted them since then which has led to two new designs altogether, but I’ll save them for another week. The first set of swirls are wider, but these newer swirls are thinner.

 

 

Also since then I’ve done the swirls in colored plastic.

Again all of these are made of recycled materials including repurposed beads. The finings of course are new, either silver or gold plated.

 

 

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