Firstly, here are a couple of necklaces I have already made using 'pre-fabricated' sterling silver pendants. Each pendant is 1" square. I will eventually have around a dozen of these to sell, each one will be different as the images are all hand drawn and painted individually. I don't think I will buy any more of these pendants (lovely as they are) as I imported the pieces from the US and was hammered by customs! I have made the bee necklace to keep and I think I am happier with the silk ribbon / clasp combination here than the one on the toadstool pendant.
I have come up with what I think is a much more interesting solution to make my own pendants for the the next designs..., these will also include a small amount of embroidery and beading (hope I'm not over-egging the pudding). Hopefully I will have a couple of finished pendants to show you in the next week or so, the square ones will be 1 1/2" square and the rectangular ones will be 1" x 3". Again, all the designs will be hand drawn / painted / made by me. As you can see I will be concentrating mainly on 'flora and fauna' as subject matter.
Ignore the odd thing on the right!! It's meant to be a fern pattern with an embroidery design running through it... it doesn't really work very well does it? I might use the fern leaf idea for the reverse of some pendants but not sure yet.
There'll be a general 'otherworldly' fairytale quality to everything, I'm obsessed with fairytales, they definitely inspire some of the images..... anyway, I do hope you like them!
Now I'm off to draw Scout's jar of doggy biscuits from her point of view - for the EDM I have been promising myself I would do all week!
