Latest St. Patrick's Day Irish Shamrock earrings

Latest addition to my website - St. Patrick's Day Irish Shamrock button post earrings. Available at http://www.marjoriescracked.com/earrings2.html.

Delicate Limoge broken china jewelry

The following jewelry is designed from a lovely Limoge tea cup. The design was on both sides of the cup so these jewelry pieces are reversible. Available at http://www.marjoriescracked.com.

Newest Limoge jewelry

I truly have not been attentive to my jewelry business since the beginning of December and haven't been very creative at all during the past 4 months. I remember having so many ideas and beautiful china to work with back in December but life got in the way as it has a tendency to do. I'm now trying to get back in the groove and have created some pieces from a beautiful Limoge cup given to me by a friend.

All of these pieces are available at http://www.marjoriescracked.com/new.html.

The cup had floral designs both on the inside and outside of the cup and the pendants below can be worn on either side for versatile use.




These earrings match the second pendant shown above.


And finally this wire crochet necklace with gold wrapped broken china pendant.


It's good to be back! :)

Witches & brooms & bats - oh, my!!

Here's some fun Halloween jewelry - designed from broken china. Available at my website. Buy pendant & earring sets and SAVE!

Blue Willow custom order started

I had mentioned before about the custom order I've received to design china from a customer's Blue Willow china platter. This china belonged to her aunt whom she loved and admired greatly. Unfortunately, the platter fell off the top of the refrigerator and broke into far too many pieces to salvage. The customer has requested that I design jewelry from the china for her to give her relatives this Christmas. Since it is a Christmas order, I hadn't done anything with the china when it arrived. But I've now broken it into the desired pieces. I can't believe my luck that I was able to save the two birds and the boat which are such an integral part of the Blue Willow tale. To read the fascinating tale, please check out my prior blog posting.

Here are some of the pieces that I'll be using to make the pendants. In talking it over with my customer, we decided not to use the tree piece. Instead we may be using another one of the oval designs which is located in several places around the border of the platter. All of the pieces shown here are in very rough form and still need to be shaped and smoothed.



These pieces will be transformed in several pairs of earrings.
















And these will be used to make men's tie tacks. I'm very excited to be branching out into men's jewelry and will be adding more of this type of jewelry to my site in the very near future.
















So stayed tuned to see the final designs from this beautiful Blue Willow china platter.

St. Patrick's Day Jewelry is now available!

Remember the Irish shamrock teapot that I blogged about recently? Well, it's now quite a few pieces of Irish jewelry! The was one of the hardest pieces of china that I've yet worked on. By hard, I don't mean difficult - just hard china! Whoever cracked that teapot in the first place must have dropped it from a plane! It took all the strength I had to break it into pieces. But what lovely pieces they were - so smooth and shiny.

I've made some matching sets but each piece is available separately on my website. First there's a set wrapped with gold artist wire with green beading added. The pendant is 1" x 1-3/4" and the earrings measure 1/4" by 2" including the hoops.



Then I have a copper wire wrapped set. The copper looks particularly nice with the green shamrocks. This pendant is 1" x 2-1/4" and the earrings are 1/2" x 1-1/2" counting the hoops.



This is the silver wire wrapped set. The pendant measures 1" x 2-1/4" and the earrings are 1-1/4" x 2-1/4".



I also made a separate silver wrapped pendant measuring 1" x 2-1/2". Each of the pendants comes with an 18" black velvet cord with a 2" extension chain.



So celebrate this St. Patrick's Day with a truly "green" piece of jewelry - not only green in the Irish sense but also green in the recycled sense. And then enjoy these pieces every day for the rest of the year, too. Each of these jewelry pieces are available now at Marjorie's Cracked Plate Jewelry Store.

Richard Ginori china from Italy

I've been having a great time creating jewelry from the beautiful Limoge plate given to me by my cousin. I came across another beautiful plate with a terrible crack in it. It was Richard Ginori china from Italy. This china too has been a delight to work with. So thin and yet a very strong china with such a beautiful pattern.

However, the way the pattern was scattered across the plate, I was only able to get very small pieces, except for one large piece. I have none that would be the right size for a pendant. The large piece made a lovely brooche. I scalloped the edges and decided to leave off the wire. I liked it just the way it was. This pin is 2-1/2" long.



I'll be making quite a few pairs of earrings from this china. Here are a couple that I've finished.




Next up, I'll be using some of the pieces that are a little too large for earrings and will be incorporating them into wire crochet necklaces and bracelets. What's nice about this pattern is that very few of the pieces are the same.

I may not be able to upload this jewelry to my website before I go to a craft show this Sunday. I have to concentrate on getting ready for that. So if you're interested in any of this jewelry, please contact me soon. I will be taking all of the jewelry to the show on Sunday and will have it available there for sale.

A few more Limoge pieces

I've complete a few more pieces from the broken Limoge china that I was given by my cousin Freddi. I posted the pendant previously. Now there's also this wire crochet bracelet. The crochet is all done by hand. The bracelet measures 8".



Next are two pairs of earrings, each with a different design.





All of the Limoge pieces are currently available on my website at http://www.marjoriescracked.com.