A Great Big Thank You!

 I had a wonderful time at the Christmas Craft Bazaar. There where many great vendors, great food and great people. I thought that I might share what my booth looked like with everyone. I was really happy with how the set-up turned out.

This was the center of the booth. It held my banner, necklaces, bracelets and sets of jewelry and some handbags.

This was the left side of the booth. It had the chainmaille, earrings and more handbags on it.

The last photo is of the right side of my booth. It held all of the Christmas earrings and purses along with the memory wire bracelets.

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who came and looked at my booth. I had several people ask about classes, which I hope to do with them and I am already getting together a plan for next year! If you have any questions about specific pieces that you may have seen that day or about a handbag that you saw, feel free to email me at littlebitofjess@gmail.com. I check my email at least once a day and I will promptly get back to you. Thanks again everyone! I can't wait til next year!!



Christmas Craft Bazaar

Hi there! I just wanted to let everyone know that I am going to have my jewelry and handbag booth up at Weslyan Memorial Methodist Church in High Point, NC for their Christmas Craft Bazaar on Saturday November 19th. The bazaar is open from 8am to 3pm and there will be over 75 vendors there. This is a great oportunity to come out and see some really talented people, support local artists and start your Christmas shopping. I will have lots of inexpensive gifts for the people in your life. Some of those things include: earrings, bracelets, necklaces and bookmarks. I have single pieces and set for those of you who like matching pieces. With a few exceptions, all of our pieces are one-of-a-kind and everything is handmade.

Come by and see me and all the sparkles Saturday, November 19th!

Late Halloween Post

Hello everyone. I hope you had a lovely Halloween. It is one of my favorite holidays. I love to see all of the cute trick-or-treaters in their costumes. Carving pumpkins is also a favorite in our house.

For a lift in the Halloween spirit, I made these earrings.

I absolutely loved wearing these this year. I made some other pairs with spiders and skulls and other spooky things. If you have any questions about the earrings or other jewelry that I have posted, please feel free to leave a comment and I will get back to you. 

Rings and More Rings!

But not the kind you think! The bling that goes on your finger? Nope. Jump rings! Hundreds of them for one piece.

Take this bracelet for instance:



This bracelet is the Byzantine weave and takes over a hundred rings. They are all opened by hand and added to the previous rings.

Here is another variation of the Byzantine. It is done with smaller sections and a different assembly style.

There are many weaves of chainmaille that can be done. In future posts I will show you all more of the chainmaille pieces that I have done.

 I hope you enjoyed seeing these bracelets and come back to my blog to see more jewelry!

 If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment!

Roses and Rainforests

Hey there, everyone.I know that you are thinking what the heck the title could be about. Keep reading, you will see. :)

 It has been a little while since I posted, so I decided to show you all another photo of a recent piece that I did. Actually, I'm going to show you two. (Oh My. Right?) These pieces are really simple to put together and really organic looking. Both pieces that I'm going to show you are gemstones. That adds to the organic/nature feel to the jewelry. They are also great because you can make them long or short and they will still make a statement. So, without further ado, here they are.

This piece is all Rose Quartz. Each eye-pin is just connected to the next to make the chain. I really like the simplicity of these pieces. Here is the second one.

This one is Rainforest Jasper. I worked from the silver leaf pendant to make the chain for the necklace. I also added one piece of the jasper at the beginning to emphasize the pendant.

I really like how these pieces turned out. I have made several more items like this and plan to incorporate more of this technique into my jewelry. It is simple to do and gives your jewelry a really great look.

Thanks for checking out this post. Leave me a note if you have any questions or comments.

Charmed, I'm Sure

Hello everyone. I wanted to share another photo of a bracelet that I am really proud of. It is a charm bracelet that I did with vintage brass charms and various shades and styles of pink beads.

Among the charms that I used there are: a dragonfly, bee, heart, locket, key, butterfly, clover, and maybe one or two others.

 This bracelet was really fun to do, I hope that you like it!

Testing

Ok, I thought that I would go ahead and test putting a photo in with the post. It looks easy, but you never know. Technology is a mysterious thing. So, here goes:

This is (hopefully) a photo of a chainmaille bracelet that I did. I used green glass beads to make it more feminine. I love doing chainmaille and learning new weaves. This one is the Byzantine weave. Super simple to do and it really looks great in whatever type of jewelry that you want to do. Hope you like it. I will be posting more of my jewlery and other crafts as I get them photographed.