I have been experimenting with different styles of jewelry making and trying to decide which I want to use more for my coffee bean jewelry. So far i have experimented with stringing the beans and various gems together in different patterns. One of these examples I have pictured above and that was mostly what I displayed in my first post. This type of jewelry making can be very fun and leave room for many different patterns and styles.
Lately, however, I have been trying to incorporate more metal into my work and have liked it even better than stringing the beads. This too allows room for different styles and texture combinations. In the piece I worked on today I used copper chain and wire, small tiger Nasa shells, and dark roast coffee beans. I think the combination of the organic coffee beans and shells with the metal is a good contrast, both in texture and color. I also made some silver, turquoise, and coffee bean earrings and also like the contrast with the silver.
This last weekend was a really good run at the farmers market. I met some really nice people and many of them expressed interest and support for my coffee bean jewelry. I'm going to exhibit these new pieces at the farmers market this weekend and hopefully cause some stir about this blog and maybe get closer to my goal of staring a real website!
I hope this finds all of you well and happy! More to come shortly! Thanks for the support!
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