Earrings

Zanzibar - mismatched (semi-assymetrical) earring pair

Left earring:

Vintaj brass earring hook

Brass flower link

Sky blue dimpled ceramic bead - ChelleV2

Light blue edged ceramic raku heishi bead - Jubilee

Horn bead

Antiqued golden leaf

Oxidized brass wire

Right earring:

Vintaj brass earring hook

Brass flower link

Brass spacer disc bead

Vintage ivory with gold lucite bead

Light blue edged ceramic raku heishi bead - Jubilee

Skye blue and bronze lampwork glass - Gardanne

Antiqued golden flower

Oxidized brass wire

(Please note that the Zanzibar earrings are a bit on the slightly heavy side, and I would not recommend them for everyday casual use, but more for evening wear or special occasions.)

Black & Fun - two pairs of earrings (sold separately)

Handmade almond shaped rosey copper earring hooks - E2SSupplies

Enameled copper head pins - PaintingWithFire
Black tabular resin squares 7-8mm
Colored seed beads

(These on the other hand are very lightweight.)

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All my jewelry is available for purchasing, even though I might not yet have listed them in my Etsy Shop. Please let me know if you are interested in any of them. Contact me at:
malindekoning[at]hotmail.com
:-)

All my best
Malin

A bracelet

I made this bracelet back in February. It's been away on a transatlantic journey since. But today it came back, so now I can show it to you :-). Don't you find it difficult to not directly share designs that you are particularly happy with? I do! But I guess the more times I submit my pieces the less of an issue that will actually be for me.

Materials and resources:

1 Multi Hole Green Earthy Triangle Connector - RoundRabbit

1 Wine Red Wing Ding bead - Genea

2 10mm Burgundy Facetted Pearls - they were a gift from Heidi Post, she bought them at a show

30 4-5mm Garnet mini coins - StarEyes

55 Size 8 Burgundy Lined Transparent Peridot Triangle Seed Beads - FusionBeads

38 Size 6 Olivine with Frosted Silver and Pink Lining Seed Beads - LimaBeads

1 Antiqued Brass Old Timer Lobster Clasp - PatinaQueen

3 10mm Etched Brass Jump Rings Vintaj - FusionBeads

1 10mm 16G Brass Jump Ring - BeadAholique

Ca 600mm Size 6 Jade Green Silk Cord with needle - Ornamentea

All my best,

Malin

Two summery bracelets

Summer has arrived with unusually warm temperatures here in Sweden. It's lovely, and all I wanna wear is clothes that keep me cool. Like white cotton or linen clothes. Long skirts and loose sitting tops. Sandals on my feet and a sunhat on my head. So I think some casual macrame bracelets to go with that outfit are needed. I've made two over the last couple of days. I love the casual feel of this style of jewelry.

No 1.

Thin thin nylon cord in a light kaki color.

Brown/goldy sidedrilled cylindrical bead in polymer clay by myself.

Ceramic beads by Elaine Ray. One fern colored and one light blue.

Czech glass beads in various colors and shapes.

Brass beads.

Howlite flat egg shaped bead.

Bone round bead.

No.2

Light grey waxed cotton string.

A green ceramic rose and a tan round bead by Gaea.

Yellow lampwork spacer bead by Genea. I loooove the color on that one.

Tan macaroni bead by Elaine Ray.

Czech glass.

Brassy round beads with an eye/leaf pattern.

Check out this great tutorial from Ornamentea on a really clever and easy way to do macrame. I would like to call it 'free-hand macramé'. No board is needed, no clips, no pins, no extra things apart from the string and the beads. You can sit anywhere doing this.

2 new pieces of jewellery by me

Necklace with rondelle beads by Heather Powers of Humble Beads and candy Jade. Copper findings and circular copper chain.
Earrings. Czech glass beads, cut to 3-sided, in green and two shades of turqouise and a bit of picasso finish. Brass findings and wire.

Bead Soup Party ... what I sent ... the lot

New Earrings & The Outrageous Neighbour

My latest design. I haven't come up with a good name for them yet. I am very pleased with these. They look great on, and they are not heavy. The wonderful milky light green side-drilled stones are Prehnite - from Happy Mango Beads. I am in love with those stones and any prehnite now-a-days. The stones are dangling from a brass bar chain - from Ornamentea. Brass earhooks. The ear-rings are about 6 cm/2.3 inches long.

Here is my new neighbour, Radka, just after she has said something absolutely outrageous about some of my beads. I HAD to take her picture, since Barbara Lewis had posted about one of her rude-funny friends I felt Radka could match that easily. Hold on, I will let you know soon. Radka, her husband and their young dog moved in a couple of months ago. She is a landscape architect. Has worked in New Zeeland among other places. AND she is from Czheck republic, and her late aunt used to work in a bead factory. So when she pops in to me for a cup of coffee she wants to sit in my studio with all the beads around us. She is always very positive, outspoken and enthusiastic about things. It is great to be in her company. Anyway, suddenly she lays her eyes on these particular beads on my desk and says/screams: "WOW, look at these ones - they look like an old virgin who is really horny!" It took me a moment to kind of settle again after that. Then I had to look at the beads of course. What on earth was she talking about? But do you know? She was absolutely right! They DO look like an old virgin who is really horny. Some people are just blessed with a wonderful way of putting words on visual impressions. That comment made my day I tell you.