I made these in honor of my daughters! Both heads feature their favorite color.




I think I need to practice making cane faces! LOL! These are in need of a little help, although I don't want them too perfect because then they lose a bit of their quirky personalities.

Don't Hate Me Because I am Beautiful!

This is a fun little barrette that is about 3" long 2" wide. The actual metal barrette in the back is 2 1/2" big. I love making polymer canes. Flattening and rolling, cutting and squishing... can be such fun. Making polymer cane faces is very challenging. Never know exactly how mine are going to turn out.

A few of my recent pieces. Pretty much out of supplies. :{
Items on the left are pins and the pieces on the right are barrettes.


A few months ago, I handmade these faces using polymer clay. Good to finally have a use for them. Really thought they were neat but had no real use for them, until now... Top piece is a barrette, the bottom (Silver Moon Goddess) is a brooch pin.


This scarab is also handmade with polymer clay. This is a large barrette that really makes a fashion statement. I like this because it reminds me a little bit of a pineapple.


These angels (or fairies) are so elegant. The bottom one is a barrette and the top is a matching pin. The pin is particularly unique because there's a spoon's handle for the base, covering up the metal barrette! To off-set the asymmetrical shape of the spoon, I placed the angel off-center too.


These are fun silver pieces. The top is a barrette and is a mix of antiqued plated silver and a small ring of a brass tone.
The bottom is a butterfly brooch pin made of antiqued silver plated pieces.


You can find some of these pieces either on Etsy or on Bonanzle's site.

Hope you liked these pieces of jewelry art. I had so much fun creating them!!!

(Eileen G of Robin Hill Quilts, please click on my bio for my email addy. I'd LOVE to convo with you, too!!!!!)

Antique Silver Barrettes

Hi everyone!
Another day of sitting yesterday. Nothing drives me crazy than just sitting, so I made more barrettes. This time, I had some help dragging down some of my stash of favorite and fun jewelry components. Pretty soon I will be digging out my old rolodex of supplies!

I made another bird barrette but this time the metal barrette is well hidden with elements I use for backgrounds. This version is arranged a little differently and looks much better.

The geometric barrette turned out cool. All pieces are antique silver but each is a slightly different silver, adding more dimension to the layers.

My favorite one is the fish. The starfish and shell accent the larger fish, well. I think the barrette's are well balanced without being symmetrically static.





Thanks for looking!

Antique Silver Large Hair Barrette

I have been temporarily sidelined from the quilting. Messed up my foot and can't stand for long periods of time to hand quilt. Taking a small break from the sewing, I decided to drag out some of my old jewelry stuff. Could have covered the barrette better, but some of my materials were a little out of reach and since this is for me, I didn't really mind the metal slightly showing.

Really had a good time dragging out the old stash. Once school vacation is over, I think I might throw together another one or two, when I have a little more spare time.

Antique Silver Large Hair Barrette

Here's a picture of the back of the barrette... pretty good grip to this guy!