Old copper coin part 2

Found a load of old Belgian copper coins in my cupboard.  Started to sort them in the different decades from 1950 untill 2002. 

 1950 - 1960 - 1970 - 1980 (most of them) - 1990 

 

The row on the right has been cleaned and polished

Here you can see the former blogpost with an old copper coin.

Weekendwork

 

Silk crochet and a piece of recycled glass from Thailand

 

Buffalo horn combined with pieces of recycled glass from Thailand

Beautiful spotted disco faceted agate combined with onyx coins and squares

Have a nice start of the week !

MMNL

Minimalistic Modern NeckLace

experimenting with cotton and freeform crochet

Wood and some crochet

Chaos

 

Order

 

Assemblage

 

Result

This was the inspiration to make these necklaces.

  A friend asked me to repare this necklace made out of handblown glass bubbles from Venice.  Delicate and very fragile, but beautiful !

Tour de France 2012 and recycling

Totally under the spell of the Tour de France 2012 I made some necklaces out of 

the innertubes of my husbands racing bike.  Just tiny pieces of about 0.5 cm to 1 cm for these necklaces. 

 

I would be such a nice initiative if 'the Tour' would recycle some of the tires that pop during the 'etappes'.

No idea what happens to this expensive natural material after the races. 

Anyone ? 

ps : they can send them to me ;-)

Classic with a twist

As still no 'details' can be crocheted - I am experimenting with other possibilities to uplift a classic beaded necklace into something more modern.

Here  I used some silver wire and seed beads to make an unsual detail.

These sodalite beads look a lot bigger on photo than they really are - they only mesure 4mm - I've twisted some silk yarn around the basic wire for a nice detail.

This uplifts this classid necklace into a more modern version.

Asymmetric beading instead of crocheting

Amazonite and aquamarine beads combined with matt glass

Eggshaped silk picasso jasper combined with lava and crackled mountaincristal.

Taking a closer look you would discover these white disco faceted jade beads that just look like golfballs.

Recycled one crochet pin to make this necklace with a crochet bead.

All one of a kind and on sale in my shop.

Leftovers

Loosing one of your favorite earrings doesn't have to be a

disaster ...

One of my friends gave me some of her 'one-leftover' earrings, so I decided to make her happy and make a quite necklace with the 'leftover'.

The brass one is intact, the second one is sterling silver and I

added just a little flower.

Before and after

As my crochet needle is still laying abandoned in a little corner, I try to repimp some of the crochetprojects that I have made during the last years.

before : broochpin with 1 crochet bead

after : reused the crochet bead in a necklace with a seed and nuts mix

Remake of this simple choker into a twisted one.

Or should this be called : reinventing  ?

Beading again

Can't sit still, can't crochet, can't use my arm a lot ... so made these simple beaded necklaces.

The orange request

1st strand

2nd strand

mixing the strands

final result and close-up

As crocheting is still not possible, I made some necklaces for

a custom request : something with orange !

The first and last one where chosen.