Italian Richard Ginori china makes beautiful jewelry!

One of the most beautiful pieces of china I've found since I began to design broken china jewelry is a Richard Ginori plate from Italy. The plate I bought was cracked badly but was still beautiful. Full of lovely, bold flowers and designs, I'm sure it was absolutely gorgeous in its day. I've made quite a few pieces of jewelry from that one plate. And here's my latest - a charm bracelet with blue crystal beads.



A funny story - the name of the plate on the back was handwritten and I thought it said "Richard Ginon". Since it was such a beautiful plate, I was surprised that I couldn't find out anything about Richard Ginon china on the internet. For the first several months I was talking about the particular pieces made from this china, I was telling everyone it was Richard Ginon china. Until one day someone took pity on me and set me straight, telling me that the correct name was Richard Ginori china! I'm very grateful to him for that. When I looked up Richard Ginori china, there it was all over the web, as it's very well known.

The bracelet is 7" long but I can either lengthen or shorten it, according to your wishes. The pendant measures 1" x 1".



This charm bracelet can be found on my website at Marjorie's Cracked Plate Jewelry.

I have also have a matching necklace available on my website.

Maui Hawaii Sea Glass Bracelet

Living on the Jersey Shore all my life, I have collected many pieces of sea glass over the years. Unfortunately, I didn't hang on to a lot of it, especially after my daughter grew up. Of course, now I seriously regret that since sea glass is not as easily found as it once was, due to the fact that we use much more plastic than glass these days. I wonder if sea plastic will ever have the allure that sea glass does. Hard to imagine! But I do have some sea glass left and I've made some jewelry with it to go along with the "cracked" theme of my website. After all, sea glass is actually broken or cracked bottles that have been naturally formed and smoothed by the sea. And I've always loved the beauty of natural sea glass.

Then a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of receiving some sea glass from a fellow jewelry designer and friend from Maui, Hawaii. I've always dreamed of visiting Hawaii one day and couldn't have been happier to receive genuine Maui sea glass. To learn more about my friend, Jamee Jones, and her beautiful Hawaiian beach wedding jewelry, see the feature that was posted on this blog on 8/13/08. Here's the first jewelry piece made from Jamee's Maui sea glass, made with gold artist wire. The bracelet is 7" long (it can be made longer if you'd like - just let me know) and is available now on my website at marjoriescracked.com.