Pictures from Columbus!

Hi! You can find pictures of my jewelry at http://www.madefromcoins.com and you can e-mail me anytime at jessie@madefromcoins.com - I hope you enjoy this post. It's chock full of pictures. Only about 40% of my jewelry line is on my website. We keep meaning to photograph the new stuff, and we'll get to it eventually (hopefully this Fall). Until then, I decided to start today with some photos here. I ask you to forgive the picture quality, as I took these photos at the show today, with my phone's camera!

I love the Country Living Fair! People come from all over America to shop here. I have been making these fun, loaded charm necklaces and bracelets lately. This necklace has a silver dollar, as well as a whole bunch of half dollars, quarters and dimes, all hearts.


This bracelet has 3 half dollars, 6 quarters and 10 dimes, lots of different designs.


At the Country Living Fair this weekend, THREE women had me make them gourmet custom charm bracelets while they walked around. Here's a picture of one of them:


The woman who commissioned this one really loves it. She came to the show with her two daughters all the way from New Mexico. I so enjoy interacting with the people who wear and love my jewelry.

In addition to the loaded charm bracelets, the bracelets made from Indian Pennies and/or Buffalo and Indian (the reverse sides of the same coin) nickels are very popular this year. Lately, my mom drills the holes in the pennies and nickels, my husband domes and polishes them, and I put them together. They are generously sized and are loved by both men and women .


Just yesterday, I added these bracelets to the line. I crocheted them from special yarns and used Mercury Dime buttons. The blue and green one is handpainted, handspun merino. The white one is pure angora, handspun from hand-raised bunnies! It is softer than you can imagine. The brown one is exotic, luxurious bison down, combed and collected from American buffalos. In addition to the Mercury Dime button, it has a buffalo nickel (pictured, and the dime is on the other side of the wrist). A photographer from Country Living magazine came around today and took a picture of these for the Country Living website. I love these.

Here's a piece I added this year. It's a 1958 Ben Franklin half dollar on the back. I call it the Clover Rose.


We added these this year, too. They are the Heart Heart Pendants (interesting name, huh? Hee hee).


Here's a shot of the necklace I wore today. It has a Lady Dollar Pendant in the center, on black cord with six Mercury Dime beads (only two are pictured). It also has a clasp made from a half dollar (also not pictured). It's about 24" long.

Here are three small group pictures I took of our display today.




I hope you've enjoyed seeing these photos!