Paper Pulp Jewellery Craft – Exciting Earrings

Paper Pulp Jewellery Craft – Exciting Earrings

Paper Pulp Jewellery The continual quest to see what paper can do for us is a delight to me.  These dangle Paper Pulp Jewellery Earrings have been so much fun to create.  The designs are very simple triangular or teardrop shapes, and the plain colours are bold and...

Safety Pin Earrings – A Freshly Found Favourite

Safety Pin Earrings – A Freshly Found Favourite

These Safety Pin Earrings have been one of the most popular Freshly Found Projects of all Time.  Welcome!   Safety pins possess good qualities as material for jewellery, being shiny, delicate and easy to come by.  In my endeavours to live a more artisanal lifestyle, I...

Button Thread Bracelets – DIY

Button Thread Bracelets – DIY

Finally!  The tutorials are up for these button bracelets.  They are a fun, quick project and a good way to use up a leftover buttons and crochet cottons.  I've  shown a few variations of colour and techniques.  Mostly, I've used crochet cotton like J&P Coats...

Fabric Jewellery Pieces – Batch Satisfaction

Fabric Jewellery Pieces – Batch Satisfaction

There's something immensely satisfying for a handcrafter - to see a huge batch of their handwork all together.  This is the feeling I had yesterday just before taking another load of fabric jewellery - vintage brooches to the KZNSA art gallery Buzzart Christmas...

Textile Jewellery Pendants

Textile Jewellery Pendants

A new range of textile jewelry pendants have been in the making -  Rescued pieces of  vintage embroidery have been mounted as pendants and framed and hung with a delicate cord of twisted cotton  I love the fact that beautiful handwork on stained or forgotten linen...

Kanzashi Necklace – Flower Jewellery

Kanzashi Necklace – Flower Jewellery

Japanese styled fabric flower necklace created from local vintage sari fabric.  Threaded with a hand-twisted cotton cord and finished off with touches of crochet. Kanzashi Necklace - Available as a Boutique Limited Edition option from Freshly Found More colour options...

Button Bracelets ‘stitched’ with Cotton Thread

Button Bracelets ‘stitched’ with Cotton Thread

I made these button bracelets for myself.   I did not want the buttons to be the star of the show, rather the pattern formed by the thread as it dipped in and out of the button holes. I hope to try out some more and document the process.  Update -...

Paper Earrings – Jewellery from Recycled Papers

Paper Earrings – Jewellery from Recycled Papers

Two different pairs of Paper earrings.  Both created from paper.  Both cut in the same heart shapes, and assembled in the same way. I created the first pair of red heart shaped earrings from a book.  I recycle many books in various forms, and am struck by the beauty...

Crochet Earrings – Quick Revival

Crochet Earrings – Quick Revival

I love the simple teardrop shape of these large earrings. They started out their costume life shiny gold... but soon became dull and coppery So I decided to cover them in a bright tangerine cotton thread.   And now they're good to go To cover each earring -  ss, ch 1,...

Needle Art Jewellery

Needle Art Jewellery

Embroidered Jewellery originating from Vintage Table Linen! Vintage embroidery work, cut out and hand-stitched onto a felt backing.

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