Summertime Jewelry

Ahhhhh, summertime!  Even though it was so cold that I had to turn up the heat yesterday, I'm feeling summery today!  I've been creating summertime pieces of jewelry.........

leather heart with mother of pearl dangle......

 Leather bracelet with a charm created with on photoshop with a 1900 image of a little dude in a dress....

Karma........when I say the word, I think of the color green!  Leather with glass and stone chip necklace.........

Leather distressed heart with bubble dangling charm on handmade batik fabric cording........

Ok, that's enough "summer" for one day, there's plenty more to come............

Fairy Door Necklaces.....

Again, the falling leaves have inspired me in my newest creations........ fairy door necklaces. The leaves are made of leather and the doors are metal. The coolest thing about the doors (other than them being so stinkin' cute) is that they open! Yes, they open and there's room in there for a picture or little message. The door closes securely with a little magnet in the inside. What would you put inside it?

I love the fibers in this necklace, I was trying to create a "foresty" look.

If you'd like to wear one of these little fairy door necklaces, please visit my jewelry blog:

Honey Girl Studio Jewelry.

Driftin' Toward Summer........

Memorial Day is next Monday and I'm driftin' into summer with my newest Beachy Bohemian Jewelry creations.

This bracelet reminds me of the ocean with floating green sea glass and white fluffy clouds floating overhead.

Another braclet inspired by the colors of water and sky. It has glass seed beads, shell, fresh water pearls, an aqua square ceramic bead and handmade fabric cord.

This necklace has been created with 3 fiber cords, a suede cord, tiny seed beads are sewn onto one of the fabric cords. The danglies hanging above the shell are wood and bone beads along with orange sponge coral beads. This one is my favorite!

Fibers.........fibers...........fibers...........fabric..........seed beads.............

I wire wrapped this antiqued metal cross with silver wire and stone chips and nestled it into a shell.

Can't you just picture this necklace with a cute sundress? or tank and shorts?

If you're interested in any of these pieces, they are available, just give me an email shout!

A Filing Cabinet Brain.....

I've been experimenting with fiber and making my own cord out of strips of material. I don't know about you but I have a "filing cabinet" type of brain, meaning that I see something I like and I file it away deep in the inner recesses of my brain only to have it resurface at some strange time, sometimes even many years later.......Such is the idea for the fabric cording! I remember seeing a fiber art display at a modern art museum many, many years ago with a necklace made from about 50 fabric cords and last week while I was driving to work that memory resurfaced.
Suddenly I'm driving down route 82 designing a necklace in my mind!

And, this is the end result of my filing cabinet brain, resurfacing ideas, a long drive to work!
The necklace is made up of 2 plain fabric cords, one cord with tiny seed beads sewn on it, one cotton string with antiqued bone beads, one knotted cotton string with wooden beads on it, a leather hand painted heart, silver metal charm, tiny shell and orange fresh water pearl. It measures 16 inches.

Does anybody else out there have a filing cabinet brain? :-)

Lavender Memories

I created this pendant from a tiny silver spoon which I cut, filed the edges, flipped over into a bale, collaged the inside and then sealed it with resin.

I originally had two lavender glass flower charms on each side of the spoon but they kept falling in front of the spoon and obscuring the collage, so I took them off and drilled a hole in the bottom of the spoon (love my drill press). I like this set up much better. I'm going to have a class on how to make these coming up soon in March or April. I just have get more spoons for the class!

Wishing Upon a Retro Star.........

How would you like to sit on a star...........

If I could wish on a star and have it come true, I'd wish for a tiny studio like this one. Isn't it cute? I think my head would just clear the top of this door (I'm 5'8"), it's that tiny!
This is my newest creation.......a cuff bracelet made of material with a snap closure embellished with lace, fibers, glass beads, and antique buttons. I really like the unusual shape of the shell button.


How about that antique button that looks like a diamond? I got it with 6 others at an antique show.
More pendants in the Jingle All the Way Home Shop..................These ones have a retro feel. There's just something about those 50s and 60s Christmas illustrations that I love. You just don't get the same look in present day Christmas illustration.

Little flat backed glass marbles embellished with glitter! Are you an elf lover?

Have a happy Thursday!

Holly Jolly.....

A new batch of Holiday Pendants you can find at Jingle All The Way Home!

I thought I'd try a Catherine Holman inspired painting on this little school chair. I encourage you to stop by her blog. Cathie creates the most wonderful paintings of houses that make you want to climb right into the painting, knock on the door of the house and go inside for a cup of hot chocolate. I often leave comments that I'd like to live in many of her paintings!

Here is my theory why so many children have learning problems these days.....the chairs are just too darn comfortable. This one is from the 1960s and you'd find them in just about every public school in the country. They were hard and uncomfortable and you set in them from the time you were in first grade until you graduated. So my theory is that when the chair is uncomfortable you focus more on learning to forget about your numb butt that has been glued to the hard chair for 6.5 hours!

I'm convinced that this is what snowmen do at night when we are all asleep......they have snowball fights and play snowball fetch with their snowdog. Yes, that's what I believe!

Hope you all had a terrific Sunday! Wishing you a great Monday (well, as great as any Monday can be).

Natures' Inspiration

As I've said many times, Nature inspires me in my creations. Here are a few examples the show what I mean.

I was looking through some photos I took in October and came across this one the other day..... which inspired me to make these pieces of jewelry.............



I took this photo yesterday at my moms. The day was warm and very windy. I remember thinking, the sky was so blue and the leaves so green whipping around which inspired me......

to make these earrings with the blue of the sky and the green of the leaves.

I also took this picture of a Gerber daisy. So vibrantly orange..........

which inspired me to use the same orange in this pendant.
All of these pieces are available at:

Honey Girl Studio Jewelry