Make your own solid sterling silver pearl mandala bracelet to take home, using simple hand tools. Sinead will guide you step by step to make the bracelet and learn basic wire working and bead skills. You can adapt the design to add more pearls and adjust the length just perfect for you. You can then use these new skills to make more pieces at home using simple tools and materials available from craft shops. There will also be an opportunity to purchase the pliers and an extra kit to take home.
A full kit will be provided to make your bracelet, including sterling silver, pearls and findings.
No Place Like Home is a series of affordable, creative workshops that invite Woden and Gungahlin residents to connect with and shape the place they call home.
No Place Like Home workshops are open to all levels of artistic experience. Workshops are designed with adults in mind, but passionate children and young people are welcome too. However, please note that all children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bookings for each workshop will open one month prior to the start date.
To learn more visit the No Place Like Home webpage or contact Belco Arts via email, or phone (02) 6173 3300.
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Quartz comes in so many varieties! As it is a clear gemstone, it has many types of beautiful inclusions. Here are some I have in my collection. It's quite a soft gemstone and so best for more protected jewellery.
Other quartz varieties: Amethyst, Smoky Quartz, Citrine, Rose Quartz, Tigers eye, and Chalcedony, Agate, Petrified wood, Chrysoprase, Carnelian and Jasper.
You can buy the gemstones loose, or talk to me about making a piece for it.
Named after the speckled red inclusions present in the quartz.
This piece has the hollow shape of a quartz crystal.
Pyrite inclusions made wonderful metallic square inclusions.
Emerald cut Pyrite Quartz with rusty inclusions. 15x11mm, $40. |
Square faceted pyrite included Quartz. Fine silvery powder inclusions. 15x16mm, $40. |
Square faceted pyrite included Quartz with square inclusions, 21x21mm, $40. |
Faceted emerald shape Pyrite included Quartz, 15x11mm, $40. |
Pyrite included Quartz faceted barrel shape, swirly cloud like inclusions 20x20mm. $40. |
Beautiful delicate silvery pyrite in Quartz in a faceted emerald shape. 19x14mm. $40. |
Oval faceted Pyrite Quartz with square inclusions, 12x16mm, $40. |
Rhombus faceted Pyrite Quartz with lily pad shaped inclusions. 13x11mm, $40. |
Rectangle faceted tablet Pyrite included Quartz.
Golden strands of rutile inclusions
Rutile Quartz rectangle cabochon 21x14mm, $40. |
Rutile Quartz rectangle cabochon 17x13mm, $40. |
Rutile Quartz rectangle cabochon 18x9mm, $28. |
Rutile Quartz faceted freeform 15x7mm, $50. |
Rutile Quartz triangle cabochon 24x21mm, $50
Dentric Chrome inclusions that look like the stone has Moss inside.
Moss Agate oval cabochon, 12x16mm, $20.
Black needle inclusions of Tourmaline become beautiful pencil like lines in clear quartz.
Marquise cabochon Tourmalated Quartz, 28x12mm, $60. |
Tourmalated Quartz oval cabochons 11x9mm, $20. Smaller also available. |
Assorted Tourmalated Quartz round cabochons 16, 11, 9, 6mm, $10+ |
Marquise shaped cabochon Tourmalated Quartz, 16x9mm, $24. |
Tourmalated Quartz cabochon rectangle 27x20mm, $90. |
Tourmalated Quartz rectangle cabochon 18x18mm, $60. |
Tourmilated Quartz rectangle cabochon, 20x9mm, $60. |
Tourmalated Quartz cabochon rectangle 26x33mm, $90. |
Tourmalated Quartz faceted rectangle 18x8mm, $60. |
Tourmalated Quartz faceted rectangle 28x10mm, $40. |
Tourmalated Quartz faceted freeform kite 17x11mm, $40. |
Tourmalated Quartz faceted rectangle 22x11mm, $60. |
Faceted round Tourmalated Quartz beads - 4mm, 5mm, 6mm. |
Large freeform faceted Tourmalated Quartz beads. |
Faceted drop freeform Tourmalated Quartz beads. |
Flat small square Tourmalated Quartz beads.
Assorted marquise and pear shaped Tourmalated Quartz cabochons.
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It was held in the beautiful Wild Yoga studio.
We learned about cleaning jewellery, ring sizes, caring for your jewellery.
We all did some gluing and quite a few fixes. It was a wonderful chilled friendly session and I think everyone went home inspired to do more repairs!
Fixed!
This piece we added a new clasp and moved some of the pieces around to fill the missing parts.
This one we added a new chain and rearranged some parts so the necklace could be worn longer.
]]>If you are keen to start making basic jewellery and do simple repairs at home, here are some suggestions of tools to start with and places to learn!
Basic starter tools:
Chain nose pliers - small tips, comfortable in hand and flat smooth inside. Ideally two pairs so you can hold the item securely. The second pair can be a larger normal pair you may already have.
Round nose pliers - for forming loops.
Glues - Araldite Ultra clear / 5 min (or 24 hour if you need more time to put the pieces together, you will need to support it during setting time though). From supermarkets and Bunnings. To glue on pearls, glue in gemstones, all kinds of repairs!
Cutters - Fine flat on one side helps you get into small spaces. Don’t use to cut steel or you will ruin them.
You can buy pliers through me that are a good quality.
Places to buy jewellery supplies in Canberra:
Bead Barn - in person shop, Does lessons
Gold Creek - 18 O'Hanlon Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2913
Spotlight and Dollar shops often have good basic findings
Online suppliers: I haven’t ordered from these companies but they seem to have a good selection and are Australian based.
https://www.thatbeadshop.com.au/
Online to learn beading basics (American company)
A good book: The basics of bead stringing by Debbie Kanan
Online to learn goldsmithing jewellery making:
https://www.jewellerytrainingsolutions.com.au (lots of free videos)
Canberra Jeweller
For repairs, laser welding and silver smithing classes.
Venetia Major Bespoke Jewellery, Victoria Street, Hall.
Find some of my other tips here:
https://www.sineadbuckney.com.au/blogs/news/tagged/advice
More specialised tools I might have mentioned:
Kintsuglue / Surgu - for any rubber / flexible type repairs.
Superglue or nail polish - to secure knots.
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Here are a few of the Custom orders:
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Assorted square and rectangle Labradorite cabochons 12mm to 8mm. |
Large square Labradorite cabochon with stripe inclusions and beautiful gold flash, 18x20mm. |
Assorted larger square and rectangle Labradorite cabochons. 30mm, 20mm, 20x14mm and 23x13mm. |
Barrel shaped Labradorite cabochons, 30x11mm and 20x14mm. |
Dark blue flash rounded rectangle Labradorite cabochon, 25x13mm. |
Rose cut freeform assorted Labradorite cabochons, 26mm to 13mm. |
Large green flash Labradorite cabochon, 24mm. |
Assorted large oval Labradorite cabochons, 35x22, 28x18mm and 17x25mm. |
Large dome Labradorite cabochon with green flash, 28x16mm. |
Rounded asymmetrical triangle Labradorite cabochons, 20x15mm and 18x20mm. |
Large triangle Labradorite cabochon with green flash. |
Oval faceted Labradorite. |
Assorted marquise Labradorite cabochons, 20x8mm to 10x5mm. |
Large assorted Labradorite cabochons, 38x16mm to 25x9mm. |
Small flat square Labradorite bead strand, 5mm. |
Faceted Labradorite disc bead strand, 3x6mm. |
Rounded flat Labradorite 6mm disc bead strands. |
Rectangle long 8x3mm Labradorite bead strand. |
Square twisted Labradorite bead strand, 8x6mm. |
Roundel Labradorite bead strands in assorted sizes 11mm -4mm. |
Faceted flat oval Labradorite bead strands 5mm-12mm. |
Labradorite freeform faced flat oval bead strand 22-10mm. |
Labradorite faceted freeform bead strand 24mm-12mm. |
Labradorite marquise silver Lotus horizontal ring.
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Come together and shop small online with us as we kick off our first Online Market of the year, April 8-10!
This special event will be a flood relief fundraiser, with 10% of all sales going to Arts Northern Rivers to help rebuild small creative businesses impacted by the floods disaster. Know your purchases are making an even bigger difference to a small business owner ❤️
Our creative community of Online Marketplace sellers are ready and raring with exclusive discounts, special offers, free shipping, free gifts and more! Support small and find your new favourite made-with-love wares - in time for Mother’s Day too!
The Finders Keepers online market place is the best place to find the largest range of quality Australian small businesses all in the one place.
I will be donating $20 from each sale of my new "Silver Linings" necklace to the Givit QLD storm appeal, to help people affected by the recent flooding across NSW and QLD.
Canberra Handmade Markets at the Woolshed, circa 2010.
My pin I received was by Jen Eales who does beautiful kinetic sculptures.
Alison McDonald received my brooch. (She does incredible recycled plastic sculptures - go check out her website!)
My pin in the catalogue, which is a wonderful momento of my time being a member of JMGQ and all the pins!
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6mm round red faceted Zircon pair. |
6mm round dusty pink faceted Zircon pair. |
5mm round burnt orange faceted Zircon pair. |
5x4mm oval berry pink faceted Zircon pair. |
5x4mm oval cognac light brown faceted Zircon pair. |
7x5mm oval dusty pink faceted Zircon. |
9x7mm oval dusty orange faceted Zircon. $45. |
7x5mm oval pink faceted Zircon. |
7x5mm oval merlot purple faceted Zircon. |
6mm square cushion rusty peach faceted Zircon. |
5mm square cushion chocolate brown faceted Zircon. |
7x5mm oval pale straw faceted Zircon. |
10x8mm oval green blue milky faceted Zircon. (surface flaw) $80. |
8x6mm rectangle cushion hazy blue green faceted Zircon. |
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Oval cabochon lilac blue Tanzanite, 10x13mm. |
Oval cabochon lilac blue Tanzanite, 9x7mm. |
Faceted Tanzanite triangle trilliant pair, 5mm, $60. |
Oval cabochon periwinkle blue Tanzanite pair, 4x6mm. |
Oval cabochon purple blue Tanzanite pair, 8x6mm. |
Oval cabochon periwinkle Tanzanite pair, 8x6mm. |
Pear drop cabochon purple blue Tanzanite, 7x5mm. |
Pear drop cabochon lilac blue Tanzanite with black inclusions, 8x6mm. |
Pear drop cabochon purple blue Tanzanite, 9x6mm. |
Tanzanite graduated bead strands.
Drop pear shape Tanzanite cabochons shown on hand for size reference.
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