I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is getting some rest now that the chaos is over! Sharing a project I couldn't share before Christmas since it was a gift for my Mom. She is what my son calls a "stylish Grandma" and loves to be fully accessorized and coordinated.
I was busy in my workshop so didn't take a lot of pictures along the way. You never know where you will find supplies. I'd gone w/ my husband to a place he wanted to go, and lo and behold they had bags of leather scraps they were giving away for FREE! He mentioned to the guy working there "she's a crafter" to which the kind man said "oh then take two" so I have two bags of amazing leather scraps.
I trimmed two pieces into leaf shapes for the earrings, gold leafed 1/2 of each, punched a small hole at the top and added a strand of beads .
I used the beads from the same package ( a bead mix I picked up at Shipwreck Beads) (one of my favorite bead places in the world) to make the coordinating bracelet and pendant. The bracelet is strung on Stretchy Cord.
My habit of "stash collecting" (aka picking things up with no particular project in mind) paid off because I had this antique gold pendant base in my jewelry making supplies and added more beads from the same collection to it along with pieces of coordinating chain.
Happy to say that she loved all the pieces!
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