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DIY Gold Dipped Concrete Earrings

Oh hello delicious concrete! There’s something perfectly tactile in raw concrete. Smooth and imperfect, flaws that create interesting lines and air bubbles that create pattern. You’ve got to love this stuff. I’ve been working with it a lot lately and I’ve created these earrings using this tutorial with a few changes. Mix your concrete to a much thicker consistency than described. This will give your gemstone shapes a much stronger finish. You can also set the earring backs into the concrete as it dries (which I haven’t done here…) and leave out the glue step for super strong earrings! Materials:… Read More

How To Make An Infinity T-Bar Clasp

I love being able to whip up my own findings when I’m making jewellery. There’s something a bit satisfying knowing that a whole piece like this has been made by my own hands (kumihimo anyone?) instead of having to search through my finding boxes for the right shape, size, colour and diameter jump ring etc. (My finding boxes are not organised like that of course.) But the one thing that I usually make an exception for is the clasp. When I’m thinking about the fastening I’m more inclined to go for security over style but I wanted to create something… Read More

DIY Dyed Concrete Pendant Necklaces

I’ve been biting my tongue for a while. I was asked to be a Tuts+ Craft tutor and for my first project I’ve put together these Dyed Concrete Pendant Necklaces that I’ve been wanting to share with you guys ever since! They definitely took a bit of trial and error to get the colours and consistency right so if you’d like to see how I did it pop on over to the tutorial of tuts+ to check it out! See you there.

The Great Indoors

The Great Indoors

You might have noticed that I’ve been branching out into a few more domestic DIYs recently. Don’t worry! My jewellery days are not even close to ending, but I have a flat to decorate, a full time job, a blog to maintain and I’m pretty sure I do not have the same amount of time in the day a Beyoncé. Those motivational quotes are lying to us! So I’ve decided to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. This is the first time I’ve ever lived somewhere I’ve want to stay for the foreseeable future and the first… Read More

DIY Silver Set Marbled Enamel

It’s no secret that me and bezel settings are somewhat at war. I have made it my life’s mission to create an easy DIYable setting for a range of materials and I think I’m winning! My DIY Faux Geode Necklace was a light bulb moment and a serious game changer in the way I’ve been developing my (strategy) jewellery. The faux geode setting was backless and for this tutorial I wanted to create a full setting. That’s when I discovered epoxy putty – my new secret weapon! Materials: 2mm Silver Aluminium Wire (Aluminium is light and very easily hammered flat) White… Read More

How To Make Cord Ends

Cord ends are pretty easy to come by but it never hurts to be able to whip one up at a moments notice for your handmade jewellery. They’re a fantastic way to finish cords for bracelets and necklaces, kumihumo braids and leather plaits. So that’s even more of an excuse to make some friendship bracelets and statement necklaces no? Materials: 0.8mm wire 5mm Jump ring maker or a thin sturdy cylindrical object Instructions: 1. Cut a piece of wire around 3″ and wrap around the jump ring maker. Leave a small section at the beginning to grip onto so you… Read More

DIY The Ultimate Statement Gemstone Necklace

The Ultimate Statement Necklace calls for the Ultimate Tutorial post, so bear with me on this one.. It is long! It starts with a search for pronged rhinestone bezel settings. I’ve been designing my new range and I needed the perfect materials. Finding these was proving to be difficult (one for the jewellery makers out there..) so when I was contacted by Dinne from Beadmixer it was like someone had sent him from the heavens to solve all my jewellery needs. They’ve got a fantastic range of rhinestone and setting and are sold separately which is exactly what I needed!… Read More

DIY Copper + Pine Magazine Rack

Magazine racks have become big business in my flat recently. Like most creative people I’m a self-confessed hoarder and I find it difficult to get rid of magazines, newspaper and supplements before I have read and digested (or dismissed) everything I want from them. Rather than storing them in piles until my memory of their contents is sufficiently diminished and Al can throw them out (recycle) without me noticing, we can now store them neatly in magazine racks until he gets his chance. This is the second of the two we currently have. The other is a wall mounted rack I… Read More

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