Brown beaded flower pendant

I was in the mood to learn and try something different. I saw this nice design with pattern on beads magic. I had bought a beautiful pair of brown pandora beads and wanted to make a necklace using them. So I followed the pattern and made a pendant using brown beads.

Here the necklace:

The silver chain complemented the pandora beads.

I strung on long brown beads, white and brown crystals and the pandora beads to thread using crimps attached it a silver chain. 

Independence Day Special Pendant

This is a pendant I made for my daughter to wear for Independence Day Celebration.

I used a blue crystal as the center and then weaved blue beads around it using circular brick stitch. Then added white, orange and green beads in rings.

Iam entering this to Itsy bitsy kids challenge.

Mickey Mouse Pendant

I was planning to make some jewellery for my daughter (she is my biggest fan :-)). And the first thing that came to my mind was Mickey Mouse, her favourite cartoon character.
This time, I tried my hand at air dry clay and made pendants out of them. Unlike polymer clay, you need not bake them and they are quite easy to work with.
I first shaped the face then two ears and small oval shape as the nose. Then slightly wet the ears and the nose which help in binding it to the main piece, the face.  I let it to dry completely for three days.

Then used acrylic colours to paint the face.

Once the paint had completely dried, I attached a jump ring and then through the jump ring inserted a small length of elastic cord. 

Then strung on few coloured wood beads. I used yellow, red and black beads to maintain the Mickey Mouse colour scheme. Since my daughter is too young to wear long earrings, I made a bracelet out of the other mickey mouse clay charm.

                                                
Iam entering this to Itsy bitsy kids Challenge.

New pendants

Iam fascinated by the brick stitch. Its so simple yet each time I start something prettier and different churns out. My two new pendants done using brick stitch.

            

The finished necklace of the first pendant.

Iam still working on the second necklace. The chain is taking more time than I expected.

My first exhibition experience

     It was my first jewellery exhibition and it was one hell of an experience. I was nervous about people's reaction to my handmade jewellery and also the fact that I didn't have enough stuff to display. But I still decided to take part to know the response. I went with an open mind so selling 15 jewellery pieces was a really morale boost.

Though I didn't make much of a profit because the stall charge was pretty high but I was on cloud nine after I sold my first piece. It is a great feeling when your creativity is appreciated.

But the overall experience of having stall in an exhibition was one I would never forget. I was alarmed at the rates the organizers was charging for booking a stall. I guess it goes without saying people in management in every field make more money. They give you free advice to make you work more, so less to manage so less work but more money for them. When I reached the venue I wasn't so sure why they were called organizers because all I saw was tables without even table cloth and some kind of cheap pandal that too covering only a small area. I was given a stall inside the club house and while I was arranging the jewellery, I heard people fighting for a stall outside so that they would be visible. It was a valid point since the food stalls were outside and it is a usual tendency that people crowd around food stalls.

The funny part was since we joined the group of the people who wanted to be shifted outside, me and another three people were given spots in the open and the unpredictable Bangalore weather gave us a good adventure. Every time we sat down, it would start to drizzle and we had to hold tarpaulin sheet over our stall to protect our items and to add to our woes, strong winds started knocking off the sheets from our hands.
And then disaster struck, it started pouring heavily and I got completely drenched as I was gathering all my items. It was almost time to close, but since the organizers had received a good amount of  criticism, they extended the time and shifted the tables to the clubhouse. Luckily since Iam more organized :-), the spare table cloth I carried came handy and I set up the stall again inside. I sold couple of items after that so it wasn't a total waste.
I learnt my lesson, this is India so question about even the essential arrangements before you pay.