Sea glass pendant - work in progress

Latest sea glass pendant.  Pale green frosted glass - possibly part of a bottle base - found on a beach in NE England.  The colour of this piece of glass is lovely and will set off a tan nicely.  The glass is mounted on a solid piece of silver, wrapped over to enclose the glass.  The solid back ensures that light will be reflected back out through the glass, and the enclosing edges or "bezel" hint at stylised waves.  0.5mm thick sheet and 1.5mm silver wire.  The large hoop at the top is a support for further embellishment.  To be completed.

Hammer finish, silver bangle

Silver cuff bangle with hammer finish and textured stripes.  After cutting out the blank the areas to receive a hammer finish were masked off, and the stripes were etched with a wheel (not chemical), firstly across the width of the bangle,and then at right angles.  A final run over with a brass brush produced a sort of 3-d effect.  The etched areas were then protected during the hammering process.  Several rounds of annealing and hammering were needed to render the silver first pliable, then hardened.  There's a tendency when hammering for the metal to curl upwards when the bangle should curve the other way, so annealing of the work-hardened silver is essential to achieve this without splitting the metal. 

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.