Yay! Jewelery!

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sorry for two posts in a row from me, but this morning/afternoon I finally got to work on a few jewelery items i was commissioned to make over the summer. Basically, a friend and I were walking through the Ann Arbor art fair in July, and his sister mentioned there was a stand for this one jeweler she really liked, so he and I headed over, and he intended to get her Christmas present there....only this woman had outrageous prices that do not fit a college student's budget! So...I told him if he bought the supplies, I'd make him gifts for his sisters. I sent him over to Jewelry Supply and he looked through their DIY projects and he picked the Three of Green necklace and this Memory Wire Bracelet, only he wanted the bracelet in different colors, since his sister isn't a light purple kind of girl.

Anyway. The 3's of Green came out really pretty, and since it only called for 10 of the peridots, I made matching earrings.

The memory wire bracelet proved to be a bit harder, as the potato pearls he picked out didn't have a hole large enough to fit on the memory wire...so, I gave it some thought, and replaced the potato pearls with hematite beads (and really, it looked better), then paired the potato pearls with some silver beads I had laying around to make a necklace.



3's of Green:







I think the hardest part was getting the peridots onto the strands, since the holes were so tiny!

Matching earrings:



modified memory wire:







And the blue and silver creation:







Sorry if you already looked at these on craftster!