Exploring Different
Styles
Hi All!
I am so excited to have been invited to be a guest on Earrings Everyday. My
name is Rejetta. I have been playing with beads and jewelry for over 10 years.
Some of you might know me better as Jetta Bug Jewelry.
Along with
making jewelry as the muse takes me, I have done pieces for magazines.
Stringing Magazine, in particular, always had tight reins on what themes,
materials, and colors they wanted for each issue. This stretched my comfort
zone on more than one occasion. My style is more whimsical/ floral/ vintage
with lots of artisan beads.
Now I
am addicted to trying new styles of jewelry making on a regular basis. It
really allows me to expand my bead buying binges in all new ways!!
Right
now I am creating mostly in the Goth and Vintage Assemblage genre. The first
pair has yummy, grungy black ceramic hearts headpins dipped in a shiny
blood-red glaze from Bo Hulley Beads. I had some large black rings from
Metamorph Supplies I wanted to attach the hearts to but felt they weren’t size
compatible. So I whipped out my annealed steel wire and used my ring mandrel to
form rings a bit smaller. Now I see a web with my wire rings for the little
black widow hearts to rest.
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| Available at JettaBugJewelry |
The
second pair of earrings started with these great, gray ruffly leaves and a
stash of mica shift heishis that I had to have but never could figure out how
to use. The two together looked so perfect but a bit feminine. I guess the
ruffles on the leaves reminded me of ladies petticoats. So I started digging in
my box that is mostly bling and vintage assemblage pieces and added some square
rhinestone spacers. Then some long horse eye blackened bronze ear wires and I
am in love…
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| Available at JettaBugJewelry |
I hope you enjoyed my ‘Black Widow’ and ‘Lettuce Leaf’
earrings. And thanks for allowing me to be a guest and play with more earring
ideas.
Remember,
touching beads everyday is good for the soul J
