Thursday, March 10, 2011

My Jewelry Design Journey!

Hello everyone! After earning my master's degree in Food Science as Product Developer, I decided to take a turn in life and do something totally different than my primary profession.

One of the arts & crafts shop here in the US made this happen! While looking for Christmas Decorations, I found this beautiful jewelry making section with a huge variety of jewelry making tools and materials, not to mention the booklets and books.

I remember back in the days, jewelry making seemed so dull to me. Just string some beads one after the other and call it a jewelry is not my kind of thing! I look for eccentric materials and designs. Hence, I became hooked up in making some pieces of jewelry with materials and tools of our millennium!

I love to share my work with you all and get as much feedback as possible, in addition to personal requests to be made. Enjoy!


 One of the first creations I made. Celtic Knot wire earrings made with Wig Jig

This pair of earrings is my own design with the beads I had found on ebay and fallen in love with, really cute glass beads. 

 Heart and tear drop pair of earrings. 

 Another new trial with wire coiling and beading.

Star earrings with Wig Jig! 


 This bracelet is chain mail and called "Stepping stones". An awesome weave that I found from Maillers Worldwide.


 Two in two chain mail bracelet and earring set!


 
 Channel Bracelet.



  
 My own design! This bracelet is consisted of beads that are connected with wire. 

 
 Celtic star web jump ring bracelet from scratch. This bracelet took so long to make but it was worth it! :)

 
 Romanov weave chain mail bracelet! This was fun!




  
 Barrel weave chain mail bracelet! This bracelet looks awesome with different colors and materials.

 
 Here I go into the depths of wire coiling and making my own beads with Coiling Gizmo.

 
 Another chain mail piece of art! Double daisy earrings.

 
 I love chain mail!



 
Autumn bracelet and earrings...

 
 Memory wire beauty!

  
My first ring from scratch ever!

 
 Weird Byzantine weave earrings, altered by me! :)

 
 An Evil Eye Bracelet for my loving husband! <3

 
 and a barrel weave for him too! :)

 
 This bracelet is my design and made from scratch! I love wire coiling!

 
 Rainbow Barrel Weave!

 
 Silver plated ring with stone from the Inner Space Cavern, Georgetown, TX.

 
 My polymer clay earring experimentation! They turned out to be lovely!

 
 Another chain mail mixed with beads from Bead & Button magazine.

 
 Memory wire cuff link, my design!

 
 A different approach to coiled wire usage! This was my idea!


 An old pair of Ottoman Empire style earring refurbished by me. I love jewelry that has the stamp of Ottoman Padishah on it.
 
Clay fun! My design and all from scratch!

 
 Another inner space cavern stone ring (with Sterling silver).

 
 A new era! Watch with chain mail touch! 








 




2 comments:

Unknown said...

Wonderful jewelry - would love to buy some of you when you come to Norway:))

Berit Huseby

Gillian Vaccaro said...

Thank you Berit! By then I will have become really professional as my jewelry design studies will have ended.
See you in Norway! :)