homemade2homemade | Gifts Made for DirtyGreatKnife

My recipient this round was the lovely Star (

dirtygreatknife) in Australia, and they have finally received my package. Star told me to go a head and post the pictures I took, which would give their aging computer a bit of breather.

Star said they loves both Egyptian Revival and weird jewelry, and both are dead center in my wheelhouse. I've been collecting Egyptian Revival pieces for about 30 years and was glad for the chance to use a few of them. And since some of the ones I used are distinctly weird, it was a double checkmark on the "what I like" list.

I freely admit I went a little overboard. Once I started making, I had a hard time stopping...

I started with the Nefretiti lariat style necklace, which is a pastiche of three different 1920’s Egyptian revival Czech glass bead necklaces that I’d collected over the years, and restrung and hand-knotted on silk thread.

The earrings are made from matching Czech glass beads and pendants, and since Star's signup didn’t say "no earrings" I figured that they do wear earrings. They are reversible, party in the front or business in the front. Unfortunately, Star doesn't wear earrings, but they have figured out how to wear them as pendants on the cord necklace shown below.

The bracelet uses the same beads and pattern as the earrings, but is not reversible, unfortunately (I tried, but there’s just to much heft in the front).

The star pendant was a fun experiment, and I’d just planned on tossing that in as an extra and sending everything off, but it was still too soon to mail...

So I got to looking around my stash and found the supremely ugly Pharaoh. Since Star had said they liked weird jewelry, so I went with that. In their confirmation emails, they told me that they are very pleased with the oddity of it. It’s from the 1920s, same vintage as the Nefretiti necklace.

That and the little star pendant will go on the braided blue necklace, which is an 8-cord kumihimo.

I am so thrilled that the package arrived safe in the Land Down Under and I can't wait for next year's exchange.