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<\/a><\/p>\nThe jewellery sets went down an absolute storm at the wedding.\u00a0 Lots of people were asking me about it and the bridesmaids all loved their jewellery gifts.\u00a0 I’m hoping to make more of these to sell.\u00a0 I know there’s a market for such jewellery, as another niece was interested in a tiara from a lady who makes wedding jewellery from sterling silver and CZ’s, but it was more money than she could afford, so she asked me to make something similar but different for her.\u00a0 The lady in question is doing well selling the type of jewellery I’ve been interested in making for quite some time.\u00a0 This is my take on “jewellery for the big day”, and something I may decide to specialise in.<\/p>\n The bride was wearing a dress with a halterneck, and so didn’t want a necklace, but she asked me to design a pair of earrings to go with her curly hair.\u00a0 The following sterling silver, princess cut CZ and freshwater pearl earrings are what I made for her.\u00a0 She was over the moon to put it mildly:<\/p>\n In hindsight, the inner spiral looks a little too busy, and detracts from the larger spiral.\u00a0 Perhaps it would have looked better straight instead.\u00a0 Also, the jump rings attaching the square stones to the dangles are a little large and would have looked better smaller.\u00a0 However, they looked beautiful on the bride and she said they were so much nicer than she ever expected them to be.<\/p>\n Please note, for all the folks who think pointed stones need the bezel corners to be cut – they don’t.\u00a0 All the above pear shaped and princess cut stones were set normally, with no sawing of bezel corners.\u00a0 I use chunky enough sheet for my bezels, that there’s a squish factor involved.\u00a0 Apply the forces in the right directions and there is no puckering of bezels.\u00a0 There is sometimes slightly more bulk remaining at the corners after setting, but that is easily filed flush, sanded and polished, leaving really neat corners and no ugly slits.<\/p>\n The following is my first ever loop-in-loop chain, which I made for my daughter, so that she can wear her pocket watch as a pendant (something she asked for years before the film Sherlock Holmes came out, and the resultant pocket watch craze we’re seeing).\u00a0 This was the chain I was asking about on Orchid – whether to use sterling or fine silver – then I remembered Argentium (and it was also suggested by others).\u00a0 I did make it from Argentium sterling silver, and all links were fused before the chain was woven.\u00a0 I made the end caps by wrapping Argentium wire around one jaw of my needle nosed pliers, as I really like tapered end caps.\u00a0 These were then heated until the coils of the end caps fused together.\u00a0 The handmade hooks were fused into the end caps, and the whole assembly then fused onto the chain.\u00a0 It hangs beautifully and has a real fluidity to it, due to me making the links really round, rather than more elongated.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n