Cinnamon Jewellery

In the last couple of weeks I've been busy making new pieces which was a nice change from made to order bangles which take up most of my time these days! I've had chance to make 12 new sterling silver bangles that needed sending off to London for hallmarking. These are now back, photographed and starting to be listed and appear in my Etsy  shop. I've also been using some more of the texture cards from Rolling Mill Resource  on Etsy. I'm so pleased with how well the new designs work on copper and silver. I sometimes had a problem with getting a good imprint on silver but this latest order are working really well. I also used some twisted copper wire I'd had hanging around for a while to make some open hoop earrings. Sterling silver studs always sell well so I used some small pieces of embossed sheet to create some simple disc studs.  I also made a couple of pairs of silver open hoops too. All my new stuff is already up on my website  and I'...

In my last post  I mentioned that I'd been busy finishing a batch of sterling silver bangles so I could get them sent off to the London Assay Office for hallmarking. Well I did just that and got them back last week. After finishing them {they always come back a bit out of shape and with a couple of scratches when they've been hallmarked} and oxidizing the bangles that needed it, I finally got round to getting them photographed.  I made a few new {to me} designs including this hammered "bark" texture set using flattened 6mm and 4mm round wire. I got busy with the masking tape for this bangle... Creating this texture involved cutting very thin strips of masking tape then sticking them to the flattened silver before rolling it through the rolling mill. The textured areas are where the tape was and the raised smooth sections were the bits without any tape. I like this texture!  I was going to try to achieve the look by wrapping 20g/0.8mm wire aro...