Spring Collection Inspired by Winter

The last few days have seen the NeckSpice girls racing around the slopes at Mt Buller.  The scenery was spectacular with fresh snow covering everything in sight...that got us thinking about our Spring collection...crazy that it is being inspired by Winter...but that is the beauty of ideas flowing from one season into the next.

 

 

 

The snow at Mt Buller

has inspired a  

butterfly and pearl collection...

 

 

 

 

...they look a bit like ski runs.

Happy Customers Make Us Feel Groovy

One of our gorgeous customers allowed us to remodel one of her precious necklaces.  We wrote about the multi strand necklace that we are making into two seperate necklaces.  She has showered us with gifts and that invaluable "groovy" feeling that you get when someone shows faith in your creativity. 

Working in Blue

We have been inspired by a new range of
blue beads...the colour is elegant...clean...crisp...timeless.

Winter Holiday Beading

Indoors, cold, what to do?  Beading!!  Kids in the family not so keen but they like looking at the finished product.  Some of the larger beads went missing during the design process - I suspect they are being used in a "marble run construction" that the kids are creating upstairs...We might might just keep beading downstairs and pretend that we can't hear the construction noises.  Here are some of our Winter creations...more to come next week.

Remodelling and Repairs

A lot of people find it hard to locate someone who will undertake to remodel or repair semiprecious or costume jewellery.  Jane and I have been collecting beads for over 20 years so we have a "beading box" that is filled with exquisite and quirky beads.  Coupled with the desire for a challenge we are finding that we are having a lot of fun remodelling jewellery for some of our customers.  Here is one that we are doing this week.

 This is the necklace before we started. 

The vision is to change it and create 2 new necklaces from this orginal one

which has hundreds of tiny seed beads in a fabulous coral colour.

We have now seperated all the stands and are removing some of the beads
 from one stand and transferring some of the beads to other strands
so the the lengths of the stands will vary.  Thereby giving a graded effect.
The honey coloured beads will be turned into a completely seperate bracelet.
We will post photos to show you our progress...it is a labour of love.

The finished necklace ... or should we say one of the necklaces... we are now working on creating a second necklace from the beads that we extracted from the original.  Another labour of love.  Our client was totally thrilled with the transformation and
we will show you a photo of her modelling her new pieces...soon!

Happy Mother's ... Grandmother's ... Yiayia ... Nana ...Grandma Day

To all the wonderful mums, mothers, grandmothers, yiayias, nanas, grandmas, stepmums, stepgrannies we wish you a most special day from the NeckSpice team.  Hope that your day was filled with fun, family and some yummy pancakes.  Here is a small slice of the perfect Mother's day for the NeckSpice girls...a "real" sleep in, flowers, some handmade cards and time to experiment with some new beads...heaven.

Happy Ladies Wearing our Hippie Beads

Positive feedback can feed your creative soul for a while...saw some friends this evening you have succumed to the power of the gorgeous hippie beads in our collection.  They are wearing them "around town to all sorts of events"... their words not mine.  Jane and I will be floating on this comment for some time.  These are some of the colour combinations ... only limited by one's imagination.

50th Birthday NeckSpice Magic

A family member turned 50 recently and she is totally gorgeous.  She adores the NeckSpice colours and textures so we chose something from the multicoloured range, and a soft woollen "Clove" necklace to add some more tjuz to her wardrobe.  Complemented with a silk scarf.  Have a look at our creations to celebrate this groovy chic's 50th.

The birthday chic's little girl also had a special number birthday so we designed something especially for her to treasure.  Butterflies just seem to make girls happy and they look great with denim.

NeckSpice Birthday Pressie

A special little girl who visits the NeckSpice team loves looking through our numerous beading and button boxes.  Her Mum was having a birthday last week and this is what this wonderful little girl designed from the NeckSpice bead collection for her...she may even be part of our design team when she grows up...the centre is a vintage button from the 1950's...have a look at her incredible bracelet.

Reading Craft blogs, watching the Tennis, no beading this week

Jane and I have been distracted by Summer and all the wonderful activities that come with this time of year.  Reading craft blogs - check out the new Craft Victoria blog - watching the Tennis for hours...and hours...and hours.  So no beading in our homes this week...we promise to get our act together in February.