The build-your-own-bracelet system from Pandora is a hit with both teenagers and their grandmothers here in the USA. Libby Mills posted about how to create polymer clay beads on the silver cores made to be used with the Pandora line. She created the ones shown here for her daughters.
Customers line up to buy this modern version of the charm bracelet. Perhaps polymer clay artists can give collectors more interesting and unusual choices. (Lindly Haunani put me on to this trend.)
If you’re looking for even more unusual choices, look at the polymer clay earrings from Arkansas’ Giovanna Coraggio (via Eugena Topina). In her Etsy shop she offers a selection of tendril-like plugs, earrings and hair sticks.
The ear gauges that Giovanna and her fashionable friends use look like slightly larger versions of the cores Pandora uses for bracelets!
Jeannie ,
Libby your beads look fantastic. I have been playing around with this for awhile now and have not been very successful. It takes practice. I tried using a bigger core, thinking it would be easier but the beads don’t look good if they’re too big. I’ve found the smaller the better they look. I’ll just keep working at it.
Ear Stretching ,
Hello Libby
You have a gorgeous site! I like the bigger beads