Day 190 - Sage green pearl bracelet

This is the last of my wedding jewellery posts! This was the matching bracelet I made for us all to wear, and as before the pearls are from Smitten Beads.

Normal jewellery service will presume again shortly...!

The Sunday Summary

Ok I confess that with the wedding its all been a bit crazy and I've not really had the chance to do a proper Sunday Summary today, or a proper Shop of the Week. If we hadn't had the jewellery that I made then I think I would have probably got some striking jewellery from Coast, so by default they are my Shop of the Week! (*lazy blogging alert!*)

Day 188 - Sage green pearl necklace

Today one of my best friends got married, and as I was bridesmaid she asked me to make the jewellery for myself and the other bridesmaids.

Working with her on designs and colours we settled on a simple pearl bracelet, single drop earrings and a simple single drop necklace.

Obviously I wore them all at the same time but I'll feature each one over three days so you can see them in all their glory.



You'll recognise this as I did a simple master class earlier in the year. I used chain bought in bulk from eBay and the pearls are from Smitten Beads.

And here is a photo (right) of my and my friend just after she lef the church - you can see me wearing the necklace.

Doesn't she look amazing?! I did her make up and I have to say that I am really pleased with how it came out. Obviously that's not why she looked so stunning but I like to think that I helped make her day a little bit easier and therefore a whole lot more enjoyable.

Day 60 - Silverleafed leaf necklace from The Silvery

I had never heard of The Silvery until a friend bought me this necklace for my 30th birthday and I love it. It's a real leaf that's been silver leafed and I've since become a huge fan of The Silvery. I have bought a few presents from them and they've been nothing short of wonderful in terms of their customer service.

I can't recommend them highly enough as they really are fantastic and I am in love with their shell pieces - am hoping to drop enough hints to the husband for my forthcoming birthday...! Whenever I wear this necklace I always get compliments and love telling people its a real leaf!

I even got two 1p coins silverleafed by The Silvery for our anniversary a few years ago and we ended up using both the coins in our wedding. Why two 1p coins? Well when we were buying our flat in the height of the credit crunch (seriously it was when Lehmann Brothers and Northern Rock went under - getting a mortgage was unbearably stressful!) we would hide any 1p coins that we found in the flat in a secret place hoping they'd bring us good luck.

It worked and we ended up getting the flat and we kept a little pot of lucky pennies as a stand by which we still have today.

I managed to retreive the first two from the bottom of the pot and The Silvery kindly silverleafed them for me. I wear mine as a necklace (on the wedding day it was pinned to my bouquet, above) and the husband wore his attached to his pocket watch (my wedding gift to him, left).

Wedding images courtesty of the marvellous Mark Colombus.