Week 29: Bottle Week 3, Revenge of Bottle Week!

Ok, I know using the movie title theme that 2 should have been "Revenge of Bottle Week" and 3 should be "bottle Week Three: 3D".  : )  No matter the title, I'm back at making necklaces and earrings out of glass bottle charms.  By now my obsessive love needs no introduction, so we'll get right on to the pictures:

Glass bottle charm necklace.  The bottle has a couple of feathers in it.  The charms are a glass leaf, a metal bird, a vintage style key, and a metal wing.

Mica filled glass bottle earrings.  Pretty self explanatory.

Tall peacock feather filled glass bottle earrings.

Beaded necklace with ornate glass bottle filled with mica.  

Glass bottle necklace with pressed ferns and lavender.

Necklace with double terminated quartz crystal points in a glass bottle.

Necklace with vintage style scroll and rhinestone links, with fancy glass bottle filled with peacock feathers.

I know I made some repeats with materials in the bottles, but I think that the necklace styles are different enough to make them distinctly unique projects.  I have a few more ideas, so I'm sure "Bottle Week 4: Bottle Week in Space" will happen sometime before the 52 weeks are up.  : )  See you next time!

Week 25: Bottle Week 2

As the year goes on I am becoming less and less successful in not repeating themes.  I've made my peace  with repeating themes, as long as I try to keep the actual projects fresh.  This is my second round of putting things in bottles, which it turns out I LOVE doing.  I would never have guessed that I'd be so in love with making these little bottle charms for necklaces and earrings.  I'm betting that this bug is not quite out of my system yet, so look for another bottle week coming up in the future.

Dried herb glass bottle necklace.  It was pretty fun trying to fit the bundle through the tiny neck of the bottle.  : )

Tiny, colorful beads in a glass bottle necklace.  I'm particularly fond of this one as it makes me think of both the 80s and  my grandma's button box.

Green and black tourmaline crystals in a glass bottle.  For some reason it makes me think of Kryptonite.  

Evil Eye glass bottle necklace.  What's better protection that one evil eye charm?  A bottle full of them!  : )

Full peacock feather in a glass bottle.  This glass bottle necklace is probably the most simple of the week, and it still took me forever to trim the feather so it would sit in the bottle "just so". 

Finally, the true "innovation" of this week, the lock and key glass bottle necklace.  While  putting the eye screw in the top of the cork, I realized that I could do the same to the bottom of the cork and hang something inside the bottle itself.  And goodness knows I love locks and keys.  : )

I don't know that this bottle bug is out of my system yet, so I'm sure there will be at least one more week of bottle necklaces before this year is over.  What's the fourth installment of a movie franchise? Space, right?  Bottle week in space!  Coming soon to a 52/7 blog near you.

Week 13: Birds of a Feather

This week is a celebration!  First, one of my Etsy shop's items trended hot on Wanelo for like a minute. I was very, very excited.  Then it sold!  This marks my very first Etsy sale.  Woohoo!  To celebrate, I decided to make the medium I used in the item my weekly theme.  And lucky for me, it was peacock feathers!  I'm super into peacock feather jewelry right now.  On to the show!

Peacock sword feathers under microscope slide glass, topped with a tattered silk bow.

Peacock eye feather in a glass locket.

Peacock eye feather and pheasant feather in bead cone on a long (29'') silver chain.

Fancy glass tube filled with peacock sword feathers, plus a rhinestone!  Am I in heaven or what?

Peacock sword feather pad (I think it was meant for a hair piece) with a button and a bail = a big funky necklace!

Peacock feathers in a bottle!  This time it actually turned out how it wanted it to; with all the feathers facing the same direction instead of getting all knotted up like in Bottle Week.  Success!

And peacock feathers in tiny little earring bottles!  Ok, I know the last two are really similar, and that's almost breaking a rule but I'm too excited right now to care!

Wanelo is pretty darn cool; it's like Pinterest but for shops and items for sale!  I imagine I'm going to use the hell out of it for christmas shopping this year.  Like Pinterest you can have groups, follow people, and gain a following yourself!  For anyone interested you can find me on Wanelo here, and Pinterest here.  That does it for this time, have a great week!

Week 9: Message in a Bottle

I picked up selection of bottles from Michael's while working on a project to help one of the hubby's co-workers replace a necklace she had broken.  I've been trying to think about what to do with the remaining bottles for awhile, and there were definitely enough bottles to make for a whole week's worth of projects.  This is what I came up with.  See you next week!

Nonpareil filled with ribbons.  I love how they look like mini gumballs! 

I colored the inside of these bottles with alcohol inks.  I'm a sucker for colored glass, so I expect to have a pair of these in just about every shade I can make.

Pebble filled bottle on a charm necklace.  Finding pebbles to fit in the tiny bottle was a pain, but so worth it.

Mica filled.  So shiny!

Filled with peacock feather plumes.

Moss filled bottle pendant.  I really liked how this one turned out so....

... I made it a pair of matching earrings.

And another pebble filled bottle, but I thought I could count this as a separate project as the necklaces are so different.  Once I did the first I couldn't help but think that a "paper, rock, scissors" theme would be cute, so this was my take.