Stained glass leaf pendant

Green stained glass cut into the shape of a leaf with silver wire and silver solder, a perfect depiction of nature's splendour. Our lives, just like the leaves, will be forever falling and then growing again. If you’re not happy now, you will be. You may not return with a consciousness of what you used to be, but you will return. Don’t count the seconds of your fleeting life. Multiply them.

If words were leaves
Rustling in the breeze
Whispering with ease
Thoughts and feelings
I will then say
There will never be enough leaves
On any tree
To express me

 Can be worn with a silver chain or leather thonging for a more earthy feel

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Citrine Crystal Pendant on silver chain

My favourite pendant - Citrine crystal with silver cap, suspended from a silver chain 

My favourite pendant to wear because Natural Citrine is a premier stone of manifestation, imagination, and personal will. Carrying the power of the sun, it is warm and comforting, energizing and life giving. It stimulates the chakras like the sunlight of spring, clearing the mind and stirring the soul to action. Its frequency awakens creativity and imagination, and sustains the process of transforming dreams and wishes into tangible form. With its pure yellow energy, Citrine encourages fullness of life, fresh beginnings and new pursuits.

Yellow is the color of the coming of the sun and the warmth it brings. It is the color of the bright days of early summer. Yellow is a color of journeys beginning well, full of promise and sunny optimism.

Yellow crystals give you the power to solidify new interests and new relationships. They help you to see things in new ways and to become enlightened. They add clarity to your life. They help you wake things up and add zest, optimism, and meaning to your life and relationships.

Cosmic Orbit

 'Cosmic Orbit' - Silver wire pendant strung on leather thonging to enhance the earthy feel and matching earrings 

Connect to the Universe from within.

How do you activate the Cosmic Force?
You can use smiling energy. Rub the mid-eyebrow, spiral, and slowly breathe the Cosmic Force in through the mid-eyebrow and the nose. Hold each breath for a while.

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"The Milky Way" Pendant

Round, milky-white stained glass surrounded with silver solder and finished off with a half-moon shaped glass bead. Suspended from a silver chain.

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Steel, Wood, Silver and Air - Choker and earrings

This is a piece of small, flat steel bar surrounded with silver solder and decorated with silver wire and a wooden bead. The choker is silver wire and solder.

Steel, Wood, Silver and Air - each of these elements represent an aspect of a dynamic process, a process's phases of change.

Wood - rising, development (of an action), impulse, expansion, decampment
Steel - sinking, contraction, declining
Air - represented by the hole drilled in the steel - Air is vital to human survival
Silver - represents the purity and abundance of life  

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"I can see clearly now" Pendant

I can see clearly now the rain is gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.
It's gonna be a bright (bright) bright (bright) sunshiny day.

Clear, textured stained glass pendant with a clear glass jewel, suspended from a silver chain.

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"Willpower" pendant

The steel-like finish of the copper scroll symbolises willpower and a steely resolve to stand firm in your decisions.

An oblong piece of copper in a scroll form, covered in silver solder and then paginated with 'BlackIt' for a vintage effect. Fitted with a silver chain and a wooden bead hangs from the bottom.

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"Faith" pendant

Go ahead: make the leap. Have faith. I’ll be waiting for you on the other side. Here, take my hand…

Silver wire pendant with glass beads hanging from leather thonging for a more earthy connection. Also comes with a silver chain.

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Copper Necklace and earrings

A necklace/choker made out of copper wire, inter-laced with large dark green striped beads. This necklace has a copper chain and matching earrings.

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Shell pendant on Silver chain

A shell with a black pebble hanging from a silver chain

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A collection of art and jewellery

A collection of paintings and jewellery. The birds are painted in watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm.

The clock-face and orange jewel bracelet is from my "Keepsakes" range, as is the Pin Brooch with photographs and the necklace with photographs, lace and a rose petal.

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Round Amber Glass Jewel and Copper pendant

Here I cut a flat round circle out of some copper sheeting and cut a hole the size of the glass jewel slightly off-centre (I use ordinary office scissors for this job). Once I had wrapped the copper foil (¼" width) around the glass jewel (it is the catalyst for soldering the glass to the copper as solder does not take on glass), I soldered it in place, allowing the light to shine through from the back. I covered the copper in silver solder and then soldered some pieces of wire onto the bottom half of the copper, giving it a coat of black patina and gently buffing it with fine kitchen steel wool to create an aged effect. After soldering on some rings, it was ready to suspend from a nice thick rope chain.

To work with copper sheeting is an absolute pleasure. It is pliable, easy to handle and can be cut and shaped into any shape you please. It can be combined with many other materials like glass, wood, stone, steel, shells and even plastic or used on it's own to create one-of-a-kind copper jewellery.

I purchase mine in rolls, available from most craft shops, which is then easy to store and doesn't take up as much space as when you buy pre-cut flat sheets.

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Amber, warm and powerful. Necklace

Scouring some vintage shops like I normally do, I came upon these loose Amber beads in an old tin on a shelf and when I enquired whether it was for sale, the lady said yes and I was surprised at how affordable they were and snatched them up immediately!

They obviously came from a previous neclace, so I just threaded some tiger-tail wire through the holes, attached some clasps and earring hooks onto the two I used for earrings and voila! a warm and powerful necklace with matching earrings!

While often considered a gemstone, the glowing amber is not actually a stone, but fossilized resin from ancient evergreen trees. The oldest amber discovered on Earth is about 320 million years old. Imagine the incredibly powerful energy this amber contains!

Young amber stones are less than 100,000 years old; the most valued pieces of amber are much older than that. (It takes a long time for the tree resin to become true amber). Isn’t it mind boggling to know that the amber jewellery you just bought contains such old, wise energy?

The most obvious quality of amber is its old, old, (very old!) energy. With it comes the accumulated wisdom of the earth and its natural kingdom. You can often see little insects trapped in the amber while it started as a tree resin; this gives the amber stone quite powerful magical properties. It is believed that amber:

• Balances emotions
• Attracts good luck
• Eliminates fears
• Relieves headache
• Clears the mind
• Dissolves negative energy
• Helps develop patience and wisdom

Amber clarity ranges from transparent to opaque and it has a resinous lustre. Most amber specimens have pockets of air bubbles and various other inclusions.

Amber Aztec-style Pendant

A pendant with a slight Aztec feel. Large Amber glass jewel with a half-moon shaped metal disc attached. Hanging from a thick silver rope chain. Aged with black patina.

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Bone Pendant and earrings

 

A pendant hand-crafted out of silver wire, silver beads, flat bone beads and long pieces of bone on a silver chain.

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"Keepsakes" Necklace

Three photographs of my grand-children, one rose petal and a vintage piece of lace, placed between two pieces of glass and soldered closed with silver solder, hang from a simple silver chain to make a memorable 'Keepsakes' necklace.

 Detail of photograph encased in glass

 Detail of photograph encased in glass

Detail of vintage lace encased in glass

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