More Fall influences...

"Amber Butterfly"

(Necklace)     Price: $ 60.00 

This came about by fiddling with jewelry bits with a fairly pointed idea that surfaced during our time away in Italy last year. I had just visited my bead dealer that morning and spent a happy hour foraging among her table of 'discards', and used some of those beads here. The central butterfly was broken and came about from a previous visit, so I filed down the Sharp edges and cleaned it up and applied the engineering I thought up during the night one night in Florence, Italy to suspend it from the necklace. I love rescuing lost and/or broken bits and making them beautiful again if I can. Four double link 'S' connectors suspend the butterfly between the 'branches' of vintage amber Czech glass beads and a few Amethyst ones. The arches and flower like beads book-ending the 'lower branches' are contemporary Czech glass. The filigree 'rose' connectors are warmer in tone and help offset the brightness of the filigree butterfly. Thus the result is a Fall-ish warm amber tones with touches of dark purple, silver butterfly with gold accents…

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheers,

Marianne