Northumbrian Sea glass.

Over the years, when visiting many of our lovely Northumbrian beaches, my family and I have always picked up any pieces of  sea glass and interesting pebbles that we stumbled upon.

At one point I had a tumbling machine that I used to polished up many of the stones but I have not done anything with them other than display them on a glass dish, they are so tactile and interesting in their glossy smoothness but probably a bit too heavy for jewellery.

The sea glass however I could visualise with pearls and sparkly crystals dangling from sterling silver chain or  colourful complimentary ribbon. The frosted glass always looks fresh and delicate, it really is treasure from the sea.
My Initial attempts at Sea Glass jewellery making has been using the wire wrapping technique that I have been using to make other jewellery pieces recently.

Sea Glass with glass pearl and Swarovski crystals

Aqua sea glass with crystals and abalone shell

White sea glass that could be a sea angel






Sea Glass with Mother of Pearl

Music, Music, Music

Rothbury Music festival is this weekend coming up, it is usually a lovely lively weekend. The weather forecast is looking good so Rothbury is likely to be buzzing with musical talent from tiny tots to those that have performed for a few years.

With music in my mind I had a few days of music themed making, have a look.

Treble Clef bead and wire pendant

Treble clef wire and crystal earrings

Musical pin brooch

Wear a medal with pride

Note to self.......

Who doesn't like having a notebook to hand? They provide the means for a "to do list" or who knows where and when that "light bulb " moment will strike. If a trusty notebook wasn't at hand at that particular time to record it or sketch it the idea might just evaporate and disappear from your memory bank.

I have established the need for a notebook to be near at hand, now if that notebook was covered in pretty fabric I am sure that every time it was being put to use it would offer joy and inspiration to the user.

If the fabrics used were Liberty fabric or William Morris inspired fabric and each cover was removable and could be added to another notebook the same size when the notes had filled the original book. If each covered notebook was a one off  and unique there would never be any doubt as to who it belonged to.

Who wouldn't love to have one of these?

Dream a little Dream!

The other day when we were heading through Newcastle we had to stop at the traffic lights (surprise surprise, it is the city) anyway I noticed that a car in the lane next to us was a car driven by a young girl and I noticed that she had a dream catcher hanging from her rear view mirror. It looked nice. I thought I would make my own version, not necessarily for dangling in cars, they look bright and cheerful hanging anywhere.

Dream Catchers hanging up.

Dream Catchers packaged for a gift