catherines confessions

For last week's Ruby Tuesday I showed a red and green beaded necklace (click here to see it again) that I made to look a little bit like rose hips. This week I will continue to show some of my efforts to make plant-inspired jewellery. Here is a bracelet made with an antiqued brass chain with 10mm links with the same bright red beads from India that I used for last week's necklace. But instead of stringing the red beads and glass leaves in a row, the "rose hips" hang individually more like the way they do from branches of a rose bush. This time I am using olive green Czech pressed glass leaf beads to hang on the bracelet as charms. Making bracelets is a real challange, because like rings, they are constantly seen by the wearer herself. Maybe this is why I began making necklaces . But I am that glad I have finally started to make bracelets. It's fun! We can call this is a work in progress. Again, this is a piece that I have not yet listed in a shop. Should I mak...

For this week's Ruby Tuesday I will continue to show diferent pieces of my jewellery, this time in red! It may be the wrong time of year for red, as it is no longer Valentine's Day, and Christmas is far behind us. And rose hips are not ready for picking until late summer or early fall. But I really like these red fruits and have been trying to make pieces of jewellery that look something like rose hips. So for Ruby Tuesday I would like to explo re some of the possibilities for rose hip-inspir ed jewellery. This red neckla ce was first listed in my Etsy s hop, "parltradet" until I decided to only sell stretch-jewellery there and moved it over to my newer Etsy shop, "Anna's Adornments". It is supposed to look like rose hips. But does it? What do they really look like? This is jewellery and not botany, so poetic license permits a less than perfect true-to-nature interpretation. But for the sake of comparison here is a photo from last summer showing a garde...

This is the first time that I post something for the Ruby Tuesday-me me. I found these over-ripe rose hips while looking for inspiration for beaded jewellery. (The yellow leaves in the backgound make it almost qualify for "Mellow Yellow Monday", but the red is still the most eye-catching). Happy Ruby Tuesday! Anna Ruby Tuesday

One remaining blossom among all of these rose hips! PhotoHunt Theme: "Surprise!" PhotoHunt