Butterfly.

Tom from Cargo Hold gave me the stones and asked me to design a piece to his wife. I think the stones are Agate dyed in 2 sizes. The piece is made in Sterling Silver with Gold Filled accents, Onix, Blue Quartz and Crystals.
Handmade chain with Onix and Square Sterling Silver wire.









The piece received great comments from many well known artist.

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Tom, thanks for your order. It was a pleasure to make this beautiful design for you. I hope you wife enjoy it.

Franchezka Westwood

FLOWER SHELL PENDANT

I know you want to know how I made this flower. Here is my My Flower brief tutorial. This is what I'm using to make the flowers and I add more beads to make the pendant hook or I attach them to earwires.

I love to make flowers with 5 petals. They means more than those that have 6 because they means "life". I hope these steps will be clear and easy for you to understand.

I used 5 flat shell beads. This design needs this kind of flat shell beads top drilled. The size of the petals will give the size of the final flower. Of course would be nice if you try to make it with another kind of bead.

Check this page to find the shells:

http://www.firemountaingems.com/search.asp?skw=shell+drilled+front

You will aslo need 10 -4mm- beads ( I used silver ) and 20 -3mm- seed beads (brown).

For the center of the flower you will need 1 -8mm- bead.

And you will need also nylon or soft wire, not more than 80 cm.

Ok, Good luck and thank you for your message!!