New Assemblage Necklaces!

I am pretty darn excited about this new necklace concept I came up with (well, no...I didn't invent it, but it is new for me). The other night I was working on necklaces, and I was in a rut...I felt like I was doing the same types of looks over and over again. I had these beautiful cameos that I wanted to work with and I really wanted to do something different and artistic with them...not just adding a pearl or two.

I started with this beautiful blue-toned cameo that I picked up at a flea market in Waukesha a couple weeks ago....and I just kept adding more and more stuff to it. I rummaged through all my old jewelry and beads and just kept adding and adding. It seemed that the more "stuff" I included, the better it looked! After a couple hours of playing around, I was more than satisfied with the outcome.

The next two went more quickly now that I had the concept in mind.

So there you have it! I am calling them my "assemblage" necklaces for the time being. Now all I have to do is clean up my studio!