My pearls

[BWeaves]

That looks great!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Bweaves.

 

[CricketBug]

Charlotta, your wire wrapping is SO neat and tidy, and even! I have some earrings done by a "professional" and the wee circles are slightly off center/crooked. They always bug me, so perhaps one day (in the far distant future, LOL!) I will learn to do this.

 

[Charlotta]

Cricketbug, you can do it yourself. It's fun, unless you forget time and strain your eyes...,just practice a bit every day and soon it will look great.

 

[Gemandpearlover]

Beautiful work Charlotta. I think the green tourmalines look perfect with the peacock Tahitians.

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Gemandpearllover.

 

[Charlotta]

I made another small bluish akoya tincup with the leftover akoyas from my project, but with a chain between the wirewrapped pearls.


Together with the other bluish tincup.


Today I have played around with the singel vintage akoya strand I recently cut apart and some greenish south sea pearls. Maybe I could make something with those.

 

[Mtummybear]

So beautiful Charlotta! Looking forward to seeing pictures of the akoya with the greenish Soth Sea pearls. I need to learn how to restring and wire wrap so I can redo pearls.

 

[86Corvettegirl]

Beautiful, Charlotta!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Mtummybear and 86Corvettegirl. Mtummybear you can learn to string by following the steps in Pearldreams stringing tutorial. It is a great tutorial. Then you can do whatever you want, redo it if you don't like it. All to the cost of some tread, french wire and the occasional needle. I go through a lot of tread and silver wire... Wirewrapping was easier than I thought, after the first couple of pearls at least. I finished the akoya and south sea strand. I used Pattyes Beaders secret in fog since the akoyas are ivory in color and fog goes so well with the greenish south sea pearls.

The clasp is a vintage silver and marcasite one that came with the akoyas. I don't remember where I got those.

 

[CathyKeshi]

Ooh, that's so pretty! Love those greenish pearls, and the way you left the graduation at the front ... well done!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you CathyKeshi, I decided to leave the graduation at front so that there would be a sort of wave effect. I think this strand will be great for layering. The south sea pearls makes it more interesting and adds some size to the strand. It was kind of tiny before and I didn't use it much.

 

[JerseyPearl]

I'm loving all of your creations! So pretty.

 

[amti]

Love the blue akoya tin cups and the green ssp with akoyas!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you JerseyPearl and amti.

 

[Charlotta]

The bluish akoyas I recently wirewrapped without chain between the wraps just wouldn't stay nice. It twisted with just the wirewrapped pearls. It is very pretty but rewirewrapped it anyway ...this is the before.

I added a chain between the wrapped pearls and used a 0.6mm wire instead. The previous were a bit delicate. I got a little bit longer though.

It is now about 46inches with an 2inch extender.

With the shorter tincup.

With the triple strand of akoyas with the aquamarine clasp.

All of these with just 4 strands. It's the ones I bought from Wendy at Pearlescence.

Just the smaller tincup.

And the triple strand.

The new tincup with the vintage akoyastrand with the greenish south sea pearls I made yesterday and the lavender rose freshwater pearls from Pearllunar.

It's almost like a rainbow.

Now it is a rainbow.

 

[Charlotta]

A very messy selfie that does not show the colors correctly.

 

[CricketBug]

Wow! I'm away from the P-G site for a couple days and arrive back to see all the glory of new creations! I'm loving the blue variations. The green pearl combo is also beautiful.

I like the "messy" selfie! I was wearing three strands of small pearls yesterday, and my hubby commented on the "many" pearls. Haha! Clearly, he hasn't visited these great "show me" threads on P-G. It may be time for him to be properly pearl-educated.

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Cricketbug.

 

[SydK]

Wow! You are so creative and so quick. I adore the blue tin cups