Lucy Lilly's

My new Etsy shop is open at last! Most of the items featured in this blog are now available in my shop, including the wonderful upcycled necklace.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/lucylilly?ref=si_shop

Also for sale in the shop is this lovely tiara.

I have been meaning to get back into making tiaras for a long time now, and this is my first attempt. I love it! I want to do a proper steampunky one next, with little watch gears threaded into it. This one is ornamented with Swarovski crystals.

Upcycled Necklace: The Finished Piece!

I have finally finished this upcycled necklace! The finishing piece is a cabochon I made from a scrap of vintage material.

I think the cabochon looks lovely, and was just what was needed to finish this piece off.

A floral/mechanical style is definitely something that I am very interested in at the moment, and something which I think brings a new slant to the steampunk style.

Upcycled Necklace Update

Today I filled in the teardrops with resin and added a few more watch innards. I mostly used the tiny parts that I can't really use in any other type of project.

It was my first time using resin, apart from a little test I did, and it is looking good so far. It wont be fully dried until tomorrow, by which time the bits that I need to create my centrepiece will hopefully have arrived.

Butterfly Earrings

Staying with the theme of butterflies, I made these earrings today. They are along the same lines as the hair grip, but with less of the painstakingly applied gears.

I do feel some apprehension that I am just sticking gears on things and calling them steampunk, so I think I might try and steer away from that alley with future projects. I still love this pair though!

Butterfly Hair Grip

I finished this butterfly a while ago, but wasn't sure what to do with it once it was finished. Today I had a shipment of findings, and mounted the butterfly on a hair grip, and it looks wonderful!

I have plenty more of the hair grips, and some similar butterfly stampings too, so I plan to make some more of these, maybe with beading instead of gears.

Work in Progress: Upcycled Necklace

I bought this necklace super cheap because it was broken. I thought it would make a perfect steampunk upcycled piece!

This one is a work in progress, I am going to fill the teardrops in with resin and make a cabochon for the centre piece. That butterfly might need a little something extra too.

Cage Ring

So, it's been a while *cough*, but I'm finally finding time to be creative again.

My latest project is this cage ring, which I love because it is completely made by me, all from wire of various gauges and colours.

It's still a work in progress, as I think I want to do a little more work towards the bottom. The 3d structure is difficult to capture on camera, but it is really amazing.