Team Edward Charm Bracelet

Another charm bracelet I finished and never got around to posting.  This was a custom order for a Team Edward bracelet. Oddly, after all the Twilight bracelets I've made so far, I had never made one with quite that theme. The beads are a mix of clear AB glass hearts, clear and purple cut glass beads, purple Swarovski crystals, Czech glass beads, and a plethora of pewter and Bali silver charms.

The charms include: Chess Pawn, Apple, "Edward" Heart, Leaf, Baseball Glove, Fork, Moon & Star, Piano

Truck, Swan, Crystal Heart, Lion, Key, Wolf,

Feather, Celtic Knot, Motorcycle, Crystal Ball, & Chess Queen.

Using the "Extras"

While making so many Doctor's Companion Bracelets lately, I've been ordering and using a great many of these Muse Tokens, by Tim Holtz.  All the tokens are lovely, but I've only been using the "Wonderful" tokens in my companion charm bracelets.  Problem is that each package only contains one of the "Wonderful" tokens that I need, leaving me with 11 other tokens to find uses for.  The other tokens included in the mix are Significant, Thoughts, Moments, Unique, Excellence, Courageous, Genuine, Knowledge, Lifetime, Forevermore, and Journey. 

Recently I've been trying to come up with some more creative uses for the "extras" as I've been calling them.  I managed to use some of the Forevermore and Lifetime charms in my Bella's Journey bracelet this past weekend.

Earlier this week, I created some more Doctor Who related items.  Using the Journey token and some TARDIS blue beads I made these two Journey Bracelets & I Love the Doctor Earrings.  The first is made of opaque blue glass, and the second is blueberry quartz.

Last night I continued on that same theme, but focused on some Harry Potter goodies.  I made three of these Couragous Bracelets and Brave at Heart earring sets, at least one of which I think is going to be donated to Gracious Rain's Deathly Hallows Part II Premier Party.  Apparently Launi & the folk at Gracious Rain have reserved a 200 seat theatre for the movie premier, and are hosting a whole lot of giveaways as part of the festivities.  They asked me for a donation to their prize stash, in return for handing out copies of my business card in their goody bags.  How could I turn down an offer to make someone's movie premier better?   

While I was at it, I did a Ravenclaw themed set too.  Knowledge Bracelet and Wise Owl Earrings.  And yes, I know the colors of Ravenclaw house are blue and bronze in the book, but as I had silver Knowledge tokens to use up, I went with the movie color scheme of blue and silver instead.  And they really do look rather pretty together.

Finally, I decided that I needed a way to use up several of the remaining tokens at once.  I liked the idea of doing something that mixed up the metallics, instead of sticking to one color.  Out of all the tokens, the ones I had been able to come up with the least uses for were the antiqued copper Significant, Thoughts, Moments, and Unique, and the antique bronze Excellence and Genuine. This bracelet was an attempt to get as many of them together as possible, and is based on the idea that all of us need a little extra inspiration sometimes.

Aside from the Muse tokens, the bracelet also features a silver feather, a copper quatrefoil, an antique brass angel, a gunmetal scrolly bit, a coppery flower, and a brass key, all mixed in with chunky deep purple Czech glass beads.  Now I just have about 6 more copies of each of those copper tokens to come up with uses for...

Twilight Charm Bracelets (Custom Order)

The same lovely customer who ordered the previous two jewelry sets also ordered 3 different Twilight themed bracelets.  The first was just one I made up for my shop, but she ordered two more that she requested be similar to hers, but each unique in some way.  The first is a Twilight Saga theme and the charms include a chess pawn & queen, moon and star, baseball hat, apple, fork, leaf, piano, key to the cottage, lion, swan, wolf, Celtic heart, feather, motorcycle, crystal ball & crystal heart with a heart shaped toggle clasp.

The second is a Cullen family theme and includes a charm for each character in Bella's extended family.  rose (Rosalee), bear (Emmett), heart (Esme), Cullen crest (Carlisle), truck (Bella), piano (Edward), baby cup (Renesme), wolf (Jacob), feather (the Quillutes), crystal ball (Alice), peace sign (Jasper), apple, fork, star, crystal heart, evil eye for protection, key to the cottage, a baseball, and an apple shaped toggle clasp.

Both include black, red, silver and clear glass, Czech glass, Swarovski crystal, shell bead frames, glass hearts, hematite and pearls.

A Plethora of Earrings

I've been taking the last week to make a whole lot of jewelry for my Etsy before heading back to work after the holidays.  Here are some of the results, a plethora of earrings!

Almond Drops on filigree bails

Celtic Knots and Shell

Leaves of Glass

Busy Bees

Heart of a Slytherin

Always - The Silver Doe

Expecto Patronum - Silver Stags

Breaking Dawn (Chess Pieces & Crystal Hearts)