Costume Jewellery Revisited

The freedom experienced with costume jewellery design has no boundaries except the designer’s imagination because the materials used are generally inexpensive. When I started out designing jewellery the innovation for me as I had little money was the minimal cost of the materials teamed with flamboyant design. Big was beautiful in the mid to late eighties, so a powerful consideration was the weight of an ear-ring and the example below had colour, fun and was one of the lightest I manufactured. 

Sourcing exactly the same material in different colours was a challenge and has taken me a year but making these really special ear-rings has been a delightful experience of a past life revisited. I just had to add the really beautiful Streptocarpus flowers too.