A New Use For Jump Rings!

I apologize for the poor picture quality, but I wanted to post about this necklace today, so what you see here is the best I could come up with from the store! The beautiful and talented Rose Berger (of Yoga Twins jewelry--you can see an example of her work HERE) gave me thousands of bronze jump rings a few weeks ago, and I've been trying to think up something to do with them ever since. Rose makes some beautiful chainmaille pieces in her store, and chainmaille also happens to be an excellent way to use up lots and lots of jump rings! But my style is a little bit "messier"--I really wanted to make something funky, that was also neutral enough for every day.

And this is what I came up with! This necklace took forever to make the first time I did it--I ended up making a second one the next day, and I got my time down to 90 minutes that time. A "quick" project it is not, but I think it's really beautiful, and I also think I will be keeping one for myself! This necklace has been made in mixed metals--bronze as well as copper, but now I am expanding my jump ring horizons. I really want to make a silver version, and maybe even a gold one too. I did end up with a huge, fat blister on one of my fingers from all the opening and closing of jump rings, but it was totally worth it. Just the price you pay for jewelry sometimes!