Coral before and after...

Someone gave me this. 

I wish I knew who to thank for these awesome red coral beads. 

I fixed the broken necklace and used a few strands for some fun experimentation. 

I made this beauty using the elastic I use for stretch bracelets. 

I just slip it on over my head. It's easy on and easy off. My mom will like that. I think I will make more elastic necklaces. 

These are two stackable bracelets that I made also adding turquoise and German silver cube like beads. 

Another shot

I'd say this was a successful refashion. I'd like to return the fixed necklace to its owner but can't seem to remember who gave it to me! 

It's so pretty! Needs to find its way home. I'll keep asking. 

I love a good refashion!

Amethyst Necklace Re-fashion -- One Gorgeous Piece Becomes Two

A friend of mine asked me shorten this beautiful amethyst necklace. 

How gorgeous! She thought it was a bit long and wanted the pendant to hang at about 18 inches.

Easy enough, just a little bit of wire wrapping and viola, a fix.

But what to do with the rest of the gorgeous amethyst left over? 

I took the left over pieces, added some citrine, a pearl pendant and gold chain and made this choker for her.

Here is a photo of the two new necklaces out of the original.

Here is a close up of the new necklace made from the left over amethyst chain.

Labradorite and Silver. No wait, Garnets...

I love the odd shapes of these awesome labradorites. I used silver wire with silver circles and wire wrapped the labradorites to look like this:

Looking at this photo now, I think this is lovely. Even looked great on:

But I guess I started over thinking it and started playing with it again and again. I swapped out the silver ovals for garnets and turned it into this: 

I eventually gave it to my son's teacher as an end of the year gift. Which is better? Silver or garnet? 

Moss aquamarine necklace gets a redesign

First I made a two strand necklace with two separate moss aquamarine strands.

But it was not exactly what I wanted. So then I tried a different approach. Made the two strands come together and added a pendant. 

Which is better? 

Labradorite and Sapphire Earrings -- Dainty Didn't Sell...

These started small. I liked the idea of dainty earrings. Small, almost stud like but not exactly. Its also easier to wrap briolette style beads with the sapphires on top, I felt.  But maybe they were too small... Eventually I made them longer.

Once I made them longer, they sold! 

These big hoops needed to be made smaller, I think. 

These new updated earrings are available at my Etsy shop currently:

http://www.kuriyasunodesigns.etsy.com