I have been very fortunate, this month, to be able to collaborate with Mellisa Essenburg of Chinook Jewelry. I was given one of her beautifully patterned ceramic buttons to create this necklace, which I titled “Turquoise Tide“.
Turquoise Tide Necklace
I love ceramic where the glaze pools in darker colors in the recessed portions, while the raised portions remain white! When I saw that the button that Mellisa had sent me was just this way, I thought: “YES!”, (fist pump!).
I looped a piece of gold sari silk through the holes in the button, for a soft and pretty accent. Then I added a ring of glass seed beads to suspend the button-pendant from the necklace.
Turquoise Tide Necklace
The round faceted beads are amazonite (a semi-precious stone). The little gold spacer beads with the rounded edges are vintage German glass. The gold colored stones near the chain are agates that have been accented by lacy looking antiqued bronze bead caps.
Turquoise
The uniquely shaped turquoise, tear drop shaped beads are from Wynnwoods Gallery in Port Townsend, WA. Port Townsend, a beautiful Victorian seaport town, is my favorite place in the state of Washington. And a big bonus is that there is a truly awesome bead store there, where I can always find the most unique and wonderful beads!
Turquoise Tide Necklace
The back of the necklace is finished in antiqued bronze chain, which fastens with a hook and eye clasp on the side, near an agate.
“Turquoise Tide” is now available at Linda Landig Jewelry.
Turquoise Tide Necklace
Four talented designers were chosen to work with ceramics from Chinook Jewelry this month. Please check out their blogs, too, to see more jewelry that features ceramics from Chinook Jewelry:
Cilla Watkins of Tell Your Girlfriends. Blog: Tell Your Girlfriends
Patty Gasparino of The Junquerie Blog: My Life Under The Bus
Hope Smitherman of Crafty Hope Blog: Crafty Hope
A beautiful piece! I love the colors you chose to put with the pendant, especially the gold silk and the dark brass. The name you chose for the piece is perfect!
Beautiful! I was at the Wynnwoods Gallery this past summer and took a photo of it for my blog! It is a fun store.
This is just beautiful and so very creative! Nice job! Love the beads you chose to work with this focal!
Linda,
I LOVE, LOVE your necklace. I like that you added the pops of mustard yellow as well as the darker blue to accent the light blue. It’s really a beautiful piece!
This is just beautiful, Linda. I love the little touches like seed bead circles instead of jumprings. Very nice touch. Gorgeous beads — all of them!
So very clever to do that with the button! I am always wanting to use some of my buttons as focals as they are so pretty. I love what you did with the sari ribbon that ties it all together (pun intended
! Those little dagger beads look like fish swimming in a school! Very beautiful. I love Miss Mellisa’s work!
Enjoy the day.
Erin
Using the ribbon through the button holes was genius! I love how it softens the design and gives a great little color pop
What a gorgeous, creative necklace, Linda! Love the ribbon through the button holes – sheer genius!
Hello Linda – the yellow is so soft and pretty with this – isn’t it funny we all use silk/ribbon ??? Maybe because it was a button. *The bead Gods looked down and said “It is good” ” lol XOXO
Linda,
I think your necklace is beautiful I like how you used the gold in different mediums to bring out the turquoise blue of the button and the different blue beads, also I just love the bronze chain you used.
Therese
Gorgeous, Linda – I love how you paired yellow with the blue! So springy!
This is a beautiful design, blue beads are gorgeous by itself and ur combination is nice!
Am drooling over that necklace! Love the colors!
wao wao wao..superb collection ..enjoyed reading and pictures are really impressive. I just love overall necklace