In my Copious Spare Time lately I've been making a lot of jewelry. I've been much slower about putting it online - my jewelry moves slowly online so it makes more sense to focus on the herbal stuff. I had some spare time recently, though, so I thought I'd take a bit of it to post a few more pieces.

This one's called Bartender's Blues. It's my second piece made with these lovely ceramic beads and I was pretty worried it would wind up too similar to the first one. I simply cannot get anything but more blue and white to work with those beads.

Well, it's reminiscent. I'll admit to that. But it's still pretty different, and I'm okay with that.

It's my third piece that incorporates chips (see my first here) and I'm still not entirely confident with them. They're irregular in shape, colour and size and somehow this offends my sense of order. I have to follow a pattern, you see; I can't do 'random' jewelry like many people can. It simply doesn't work. Working with chips is a stretch for me.

I'm pretty pleased with the results, though. It's a full set - necklace, bracelet, earrings - everything you'd need.

The second is called Calling the Moon and I've got to say it's one of my favourites. I know, I know, I shouldn't have favourites among my own babies but we all fail in one way or another. And I simply cannot resist the bright contrast between the turquoise and coral.

I mean, just look at that.

It's simple and striking. With beads like that there's not a lot I have to do. I did choose tiny silver seed beads just to set off the colours a little more, and I suppose I might have chosen gold instead but it just wasn't right.

Clean, simple. Necklace and earrings.