Hammer finish silver pendant

Hand-made circular silver pendant with drops and hung from black cord. The pendant is hammer-finished and slightly domed to lie flat against the skin. To form the drops, I hammered lengths of round silver wire flat at one end, rotated them through 90 degrees and hammered the opposite end so they look a bit like propellers.  A silver ball and wire was soldered to one end of each drop and then wound onto the pendant.

Cool green, purple and silver bracelet

Hand-made silver bracelet with beads as a focal point, including green Pandora-style beads, purple glass and Thai hill-tribe ribbed beads.  A soldered flower, tube spacers, and wrapped "coil" beads were added.  This last bead used rather more silver wire than I'd hoped but it's a process I'll try again - perhaps as a whole bangle rather than just a bead. The fastening is adjustable via a scrolled hook and swan-loop feature or adjoining jump rings.

Swirly silver earrings

Swirly silver earrings with hammered finish and aurora borealis briolette beads.  Each earring is formed from one piece of silver wire.  Although given a hammered finish, they would benefit further from soldering to improve rigidity.

Sea glass "shard" pendant

Shard of translucent white sea glass. Drilled, and suspended on snake chain with freshwater rice pearl, Swarovski crystal and silver charm.  Drilling seaglass is always a nerve-wracking business.  There's no guarantee that your special piece of glass isn't going to shatter at the last moment.  That's exactly what happened to a beautiful piece of glass I found a year ago.  It was large (about 3"x 1.5"), mid-green and shaped like Africa...or, if you turned it over and used your imagination, a bit like India.  It now bears no resemblance to either.  While wandering about on various beaches I've found several shards like the one shown here.  I could have made a striking necklace using several, but will wait to see if they all survive the drilling process.  My local DIY store no longer stocks the  diamond tipped drill bits I use, so it looks like I'll have to practise some creative wrapping techniques instead.

Hematite, Swarovski, silver earrings

Hematite, Swarovski 4mm Emerald AB and Peridot crystals on sterling silver. The ranbow colours of the Emerald AB is not obvious in this photo. Made for a friend's birthday.

Silver earrings

These started out as two halves of a cat's head soldered together - pointy bits for the ears, spirals for the eyes. I decided the resulting brooch would be too large and the halves would look better turned the other way and finished off as earrings. I'd bought the fine wire to wrap seaglass and semi-precious stones, but it proved to be too fiddly and fine; however, it's perfect for adding woven texture to pieces.

Silver scarf pin

Used an old paisley hand-kerchief as basis for this design. Can be used to secure a scarf as in the photo or, with a pin backing, as a brooch.