We have been working on a few more pieces of jewelry for our Arita collection :-)

Making jewelry can be so much fun ... especially after you have enough made up to show/sell at  craft shows, and if you have made something the public likes ... then you can sell that, and make some more items! ... I can't say we will get rich at this ... because we usually use our earnings to purchase still more beads and glitzy stuff ... and we are always on the look out for classes on how

to make different types of jewelry! Still it is fun, we are retired and it gives us something to do!

Hopefully it will help keep our minds, and hands  working longer; activity such as this is supposed to be good for us Right???? :-D  (and its a perfect excuse to keep making more jewelry ... thus came the

Birth of the Arita collection! :-)

All of the following pieces were made with wire wrapping to connect the beads and chains ... we learned how to do this last semester at our Jr. College in a class that was especially for seniors, our teacher was wonderful, and taught us several new techniques ...  (new to us ... we had fun!)

This is a bracelet, a pendant, earrings, and even a toe ring ! :-)

  This is an anklet and a bracelet made by my Hubby ... he has gotten absolutely perfect at the wire wrapping ... it's hard to believe that this was once a spool of wire, and a little bag of loose beads!

I am including this one because it was created with wire and beads too, this one was crocheted ... just learned how to do this too, in our last jewelry class ...  :-) Arita