Bangles for the spring time.

Spring is just around the corner, and bare arms are going to be on show. So here's some of my handmade sterling silver bangles to ponder over. 

http://www.heartsofbrass.co.uk/products/handmade-sterling-silver-cross-bangle-1

This cross bangle matches my cross pendant ring. The bangle is all sterling silver, i sell this for £15.99. I keep all my prices as low as possible, for my customers.  I was quite surprised when i was out shopping yesterday. I was in a shop that was selling costume jewellery, that cost more than my sterling silver jewellery.  

http://www.heartsofbrass.co.uk/products/sterling-silver-bangle-with-brass-heart-tag

This was one of the first bangles i ever made. I sell it for £20.99, it's quite a popular one.  It's made from sterling silver 2.30mm D wire. The tag is lightly hammered texture, with a hand crafted brass heart.  I always make my brass hearts slightly longer on the right hand side. I suppose this is my trade mark. :0)

http://www.heartsofbrass.co.uk/products/sterling-silver-bangle-with-copper-dragon-fly-pendan

This bangle is a result of one of my friends. He asked if i could make a bangle with a dragonfly, for his wife. I was going to do the dragonfly in silver, but i found that copper stood out a lot better against the silver tag. I sell this one for £23.99.

http://www.heartsofbrass.co.uk/products/sterling-silver-bangle-with-hammered-heart-pendant

This bangle, has a lovely hammered heart. All my bangles have the jump rings soldered, so the pendants can't come off. I do the same with my rings. There is nothing worse than losing the charms or pendants. This bangle is £15.99.  I have a matching pendant ring, to go with this. 

I will be adding more bangles to my website, so keep a look out.

If anyone has any special style of bangle they would like to be made, feel free to contact me.  lorna_luv@hotmail.co.uk  I get lots of feed back off people through my website. 

I've recently started to design some rings for children, after i had a mother contact me. So i made some sterling silver skinny rings, with copper and brass daisy's. Sizes starting from B. I also added adult sizes, because i thought they make a good ring for summer music festivals. Because there skinny rings, two can be worn together. There only £5.99 each.

http://www.heartsofbrass.co.uk/products/handmade-sterling-silver-copper-daisy-ring

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Handmade sterling silver pendant rings

I tend to make a lot of rings for website, my main ones are pendant rings. I like a the way they jingle about.

This large cross pendant ring, is very popular with my customers. This range of rings can be worn on their own, but they look better with stacker rings. 

The picture on the right uses my plain band ring which is £4.99. I tend to wear mine with my hammered stacker rings, which are only £3.00. The mix of smooth silver and the hammered effect, goes well together. 



I recently started working with gemstones, so i just had to make some pendant rings with them. It would be rude not to. I love the green fluorite in this one, i think the sterling silver brings out the lovely colour in the fluorite.

More types of gemstones will be added, Lapiz lazuli always looks great with silver i think. I've bought quite a lot of moonstone.  Sunstone was another choice.

With fluorite there is so much variation in the colour, so your not going to get two rings looking the same. 

This was the first ring i made with this colour gemstone, i always keep the test pieces for myself. :) 

Another popular pendant ring is the hammered heart. I sell quite a lot of these. I'll be adding more to the range, as the the weeks go by. So keep popping by to my website. www.heartsofbrass.co.uk

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MY HANDMADE STERLING SILVER JEWELLERY

My interest in jewellery making started about 10 yrs ago. I wanted to do a night course at college, i wasn't really too fussed as to what i would do. In the end i joined an introduction to silver jewellery course. I loved it. It was every Tuesday night for two hours, i could have stayed all night. The course lasted a year, I'd learnt all the basics and made quite a few good pieces over the year.I had bought all the tools and equipment to play about at home.  The next year i couldn't take the class, my work had changed to nights.  Booo!! 

 After a while i stopped making myself jewellery at home, so i never took it any further.

I left my job the end of last year, so i decided to start making my own jewellery to sell. My husband made me a bench to start me off, and i took over the conservatory with all my equipment. 

To test the market i started selling bit and pieces on Ebay, i did quite well but decide i wanted my own website. I have one now with shopify. 

 Wow! i didn't realise how much i would have to learn. I had to get a domain name, trying to connect that to my website was an ordeal, :)  quite a few swear words flew around the room. I managed it after a few days of research. Hahah. 

Anyway, I've been up and running for a few months now. I've started a range of pendant rings, these are my favourite to make.  I add new jewellery to my website all the time. Right now I'm working on jewellery with gemstones. I hope people will take the time to pop over to my website 

 www.heartsofbrass.co.uk

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