jewellery

Earrings made from felt are light to wear and can be embellished with embroidery and beads to make unique jewellery.
Because wool takes dye so well you can obtain colours from muted to bright making felt the perfect background to achieve any look you want, be it subtle or vibrant.
Embroidery threads come in sumptuous hues too not to mention the variety of glass beads you can get to add texture and sparkle. The mixture of wool felt, glass beads, embroidery and your imagination you can create little works of art.

More kitsch, cutlery earrings, bought in 2012 from Topshop they do some fine earrings!

I bought these in the 1990s in Florida, the sunshine state, being from the UK it seemed so wrong buying Christmas things in semi tropical heat! These skinny santas only see light of day for a couple of weeks a year so it's nice to give them a little outing out of their season.

Little rubber ducks, bought them last year, love them!

On a trip to Barcelona, a few years ago, I wanted a souvenir to remind me of the visit. After looking around the Sagrada Familia and exiting through the gift shop I saw the earrings and knew they fitted my memento criteria. The earrings remind me of the architecture and mosaics at the Parc Guell designed by Antonio Gaudi. 

These earrings represent my inner gardener. I bought them, a few years ago, from a stall in the Jubilee Market, Covent Garden, London.

Being a collector of espresso coffeepots when I saw the iconic design, in earring form, I knew they had to be mine. If I remember correctly, it is a few years ago, I bought them from the Country Living Fair held in Islington, London

Sad to say I have lost one of the 'pots' but all is not lost because I found a metal 'coffeecup' button that I replaced the shank with an earring post, necessity being the mother of invention and all that!

It was September 1984, I was seven months pregnant with Ashley, we had stayed in North Yorkshire and visited Whitby.

The earrings were bought from an antique shop, I chose them because I thought the design, acorns, was timeless.

Victorian made from gold and carved Whitby jet

I bought these, when I was an art student, from a charity shop in Hull in the 1970's, but they are vintage 1950's

Made from plastic the palettes are clip-ons, I think they must have pinched because I put sticking plasters on the clips to cushion them.

They are a little worse for wear now, missing the ends of the paint brushes, but I wore them a lot in the 1970's

They were just the right earrings for an art student. 

My favourite jewellery has to be earrings. I looked through my collection, amassed over 30+ years, and thought it would be nice to catalogue and share them, one at a time. Most have no great monetary value, just costume jewellery, but I think they deserve an airing!

No.1 Ear Earrings