Dreaming Bridge Designs

Slow Summer

2011-08-19T13:34:00.001-04:00

I usually create a lot of necklaces during the summer while watching Red Sox games. I haven't watched as many because I have been working on week nights quite a bit. But I'm on vacation for one more week, so I'm back at it.

Rene said she wanted a long, big green necklace. This one will be one she can wear singled, doubled or tripled. I will put the 3 feature beads, which are pendant like, spaced one third apart from each other so she can have the three featured in the middle. There's all kinds of materials here: chrysophase, clay, stones, plastic, glass, wood, then some polished gold colored beads too to break up the green. I just grabbed all the materials and mostly randomly spread them around the board then went back and spaced everything a little more strategically wherever it needed filling in.

I hope it comes out as good as it looks like it may!

Blue Shimmer

2011-04-03T18:48:00.003-04:00

Shimmery beads from both shell and plastic, little blue bugle beads, some glass. Blue, taupe, white and green.

Turtle Time

2011-04-03T18:45:00.002-04:00

Isn't this one sweet? I think so. Lots of gold finish beads: small round, square, and long, along with the turtle. Then glass beads along with some acrylic. Fun!

Pink and Brown

2011-04-03T18:42:00.002-04:00

This is a recycled necklace. My aunt gave me a bunch of her vintage broken costume jewelry, which is where the brown comes from. The pink ovals are from a $2 necklace at Family Dollar, which I then took apart.

Shanghai Red

2011-04-03T18:40:00.001-04:00

I needed a red necklace to go with anything black or red. It's handy. Just red wooden beads in different sizes with black matte plastic beads as spacers.

Everything Necklace - light colors

2011-04-03T18:38:00.003-04:00

I like making necklaces that can go with just about any outfit because they have so many colors in them. This is one of them and I used many light colors. It's a good way to make something out of a bunch of stray beads.

Purple Blocks

2011-04-03T18:33:00.003-04:00

Antique gold costume beads, purple wooden blocks, heavy wire. You can only wear this one for a while before it weighs you down but it's a major statement.

The Little Butterfly

2011-04-03T18:12:00.003-04:00

All little beads: copper finish, glass, plastic, bugle and the pendant is metal with a painted finish, purchased from an oriental items vendor at Fanueil Hall ages ago.

Desert Reptile - Sedona Series - clay pendant with lizard, wooden beads

2009-08-27T01:48:00.003-04:00

Desert Reptile - Sedona Series - clay pendant with lizard, multi-colored wooden beads

Another featured beads purchased at Tlaquepaque. This one is clay and features a desert lizard. I used orange and green wooden sphere beads, eggshell wooden mini pony beads, yellow and orange mini pony beads, circle brown wooden beads and small rectangle wooden beads along with clear-silver bugle beads. I may or may not be giving this to Chrissy, but only if she swears she'll wear it and it won't just disappear in the Vortex of her bedroom.

Birdie's Party Dress

2009-08-27T01:40:00.004-04:00

Birdie's Party Dress is another Mad Men creation. Betty wears a white party dress with green, blue, yellow and brown polka dots when she (& Don, sorta) host a dinner party for Sterling Cooper fellas and their chicks (except Duck, who doesn't have a date...) She sorta has a Betty Friedan-ish Feminine Mystique ennui freak out and stays in her dress swilling wine for a few days. It doesn't make the dress any less cute, though...

Costume tessalated brown bead, green wooden, blue plastic, yellow glass sphere beads, white mini pony beads, clear-silver bugle beads.

Orange Turquoise Canyon Necklace

2009-08-27T01:33:00.002-04:00

Orange Turquoise Canyon Necklace - orange turquoise from Arizona

The center bead is orange turquoise that I purchased at a trading post on the way to the Grand Canyon. I used clear glass and copper pony beads, one inch silver bugle beads, silver sheen acrylic. I used gold crimping beads in the center and up the top, silver in the middle and 18 nylon wrapped wire. I was pretty sure, and guessed right, that Mom would want this one. So, it is hers. Sorry, fans of this one!

Chunks of Color - mixed colors and materials

2009-08-27T01:27:00.004-04:00

Chunks of Color - mixed materials and colors

I was watching Mad Men while I made this one, just like I did with "Secretary Jane" and "Birdie's Party Dress". This one isn't as directly inspired as those two, but I just was thinking of the dramatic colors and glamour of the ladies' early 60s dresses when I made this.

Materials: golden glass, orange wood, turquoise glass, purple patterned clay, Oriental sea green clay, mini pony beads in copper, clear mini pony beads, black sheen bugle beads.

Canyon Oranges and Blues - Turquoise Weave Ceramic Bead Necklace - Sedona Series

2009-08-27T01:20:00.004-04:00

Canyon Oranges and Blues - Turquoise Weave Ceramic Bead Necklace - Sedona Series - turquoise, orange, navy

The "Sedona Series" includes feature beads from the bead store I went to in Tlaquepaque of Sedona. The turquoise colored center bead is ceramic. I also used mini pony beads, glass navy beads and 1 inch long clear bugle beads.

Rene's Sedona Necklace - Abalone, Silver & Sea Green

2009-08-27T01:03:00.003-04:00

I think my roommate's a good necklace-making muse, since she loves necklaces and I know she'll wear them. She also likes them funky and chunky, so it's fun to make ones for her. I purchased this Abalone shell at a bead store in Tlaquepaque Arts & Crafts village in Sedona. I used tiny white pearlized snail shells and pearlized green mini pony beads. I used 18 nylon wrapped wire and crimping beads to suspend the tiny beads on the necklace.

DFG's Cape Necklace - emerald green beads

2009-08-27T00:54:00.002-04:00

I was flipping through this month's "Bazaar" magazine and saw a brilliant emerald and platinum necklace for a bigillion dollars from some posh place. While I haven't the means or the know-how when it comes to precious stones and metals, I do have quite a few gorgeous emerald green glass beads. I used those to make this necklace, along with some clear mini lime green pony beads and clear-silver bugle beads. This one is for DFG.

Aleesh's Cape Necklace - shell, mauve & orange

2009-08-27T00:47:00.002-04:00

Aleesh's Cape Necklace - mauve wooden beads, clear orange, purple and taupe acrylic mini pony beads, tiny snail shells, clear-silver bugle beads.

A asked for something "shell-y" but "not too shell-y." I had to remake this one three times because I was unsatisfied with my first two configurations. The first center was a shell but it looked all wrong. The second time I used white mini ponies but didn't like that. Finally figured it out - 3rd time's a charm and I quite like this piece, if I do say so myself! I hope a likes it, too.

DTC cape necklace - taupe and purple

2009-08-27T00:42:00.002-04:00

My girlfriends and I went down to Cape Cod for the weekend and I made everyone necklaces. This one's "DTC's Cape Necklace - taupe and purple." I let everyone see my collection of beads and asked colors and types they liked. Then I went about putting them together.

This one is glass, stone, rose shaped and tiny circle acrylic, along with silver-clear bugle beads. (The whole "Cape" series uses silver-clear bugle beads for spacing. It's their connection.)

secretary jane

2009-08-16T23:12:00.004-04:00

SECRETARY JANE - orange, green, and yellow costume beads, clear spacer beads, long silver tubes, nylon wrapped wire, 10 inches.

Before Jane became Mrs Sterling-take-two, she was Don's secretary. And one episode, she wore a dress with orange, yellow and green squares on a white dress. I watched that episode on-demand while making necklaces and got inspired. So, there you go.

painting plus oranges

2009-08-16T23:00:00.002-04:00

PAINTING PLUS ORANGES - snail shells, blue wood beads, grey iridescent, white pearlizes, blue glass, orange tiny pony beads and medium thick wire, 9 inches long.

While home with a visit from the Tummy Trolls, I watched a lot of TV and made necklaces. This one was inspired while watching Simon Schama's Power of Art documentary on Mark Rothko. View the painting that inspired this necklace here. I also added my own spattering of oranges because that's what I was supposed to do, according to the necklace making muses.

Back at it! New Necklaces for 2009

2009-06-23T00:58:00.002-04:00

It's been a while since I posted any new necklaces, but now that baseball season is in full swing, I'll be watching games and making necklaces, as usual.

Person admiring a necklace: Oh that's pretty! How long did that take you to make?
Me: [shrug] Couple innings.

Go Sox!

I've done some fun stuff with sets of three/mix and match/wear singly necklaces that I'll be posting soon. I've collected or received a ton of new beads, including lots of pretty or funky or dazzling pendants made from all sorts of paterilas, in the last few months and can't wait to start putting them out there for all to see.

Stay tuned!

yours,
Bridge

Princess in Baby Blue - Baby Blue and Gold Necklace

2008-08-08T02:29:00.002-04:00

Baby Blue and Gold costume jewelry - bugle beads in gold and baby blue along with baby blue costume beads and glass gold beads. Medium length.

$12.50

NB-BLMD-PRBG

Grape Lollipop Pendant Necklace - multi colored costume jewelry

2008-08-08T02:28:00.004-04:00

Grape Lollipop Violet Glass Pendant - I need better photos! But my own computer is in the shop. For now, please admire the pretty colors in this necklace. It's one of my personal favorites. Colors: tangerine, green, shades of turquoise, violet.

Blue Glass Ellipsis Pendant Necklace - with purple and silver beads

2008-08-08T02:27:00.009-04:00

Blue Glass Ellipsis Pendant Necklace - with purple and silver beads: a blue, diamond-shaped glass pendant with speckled purple square beads, smaller purple glass beads and silver beads. It's a really pretty one; one of the most admired ones that I show to people. I got the Blue Glass Pendant from a most unusual place, too! I had a very nice, fancy wine bottle opener from my brother and sister in law for Christmas but one of the glass beads broke, so then I took the whole thing apart and used the reast of the glass for necklaces! That's how some of these jewelry pieces could be considered eco-friendly, in the eays I find to recycle materials. It's worth noting if you are interested in making jewelry because it shows how materials can come from anywhere!

$15.00

NB-BLMD-BGEP

Amethyst Pendant

2008-08-08T02:26:00.002-04:00

This pendant was once from a set of earing my awesome Nana bought for me during one of her trips to somewhere around the country a way way way long time ago. I seriously think it was 1989. Anyway, I held on to the earring knowing it would make a pretty pendant some day. Because of it's sentimental value, I do not plan on selling this one. Sorry! It's a simple black and purple circle beads with the pendant in the middle. I think I may change the design, though, to bring out more of the purple and have less black. Stay tuned for an update, if you're interested. I'll link to the before and after.

Cheap Pendants for Necklaces-and you're friends will appreciate the effort

2008-07-19T22:37:00.002-04:00

If you like making necklaces and you have lots of missing earrings, or your friends do, then, do what I've been doing lately: make them cheap pendants for necklaces.

I know it's been a while since I've blogged, but I have been very busy creating. I'll be posting the new necklaces soon. I have found inspiration for making necklaces and have been busy implementing this inspiration.

I have been making a lot of pendant necklaces from pair-less earrings.

My roommate lent her earrings to a friend one night. The friend lost one and I took the other. I'll be posting the necklace I made from it soon. I also took and amethyst earring from my Nana and made that an amethyst pendant necklace.

My favorites are the glass pendant necklaces I made. Those actually came from a fancy wine bottle opener that my brother and my sister and law gave me for Christmas a while ago. It broke, and after, I kept the chunk glass beads from it and have now made each one a glass pendant for a necklace.

As you'll see in the coming blogs, with a little gentle wire twisting you can even make gemstone pendants from pair less earrings. But this is a delicate process, so unless you feel confident about your skills or don't care much about unfortunate outcomes, I wouldn't take the risk.

More soon!

How to Make Costume Jewelry - Getting Started

2008-06-19T19:04:00.002-04:00

**Making costume jewelry from beads of all materials, wire, metals, stone, string, elastic and hemp is something I have been doing on and off for the last 12 years. I learned by watching other people make them and asking questions. Mostly, I am self taught when it comes to this hobby, so if there are experts out therew who disagree, please leave your comments below. But from one hobbiest to another, here's some beginner's tips:

**My first suggestion would be to find a local bead store where you can make your own necklace. You get to look at what's out there for types and price and let your imagination go. Also, watch the workers as they help the customers complete a necklace. They will show you how to make a loop with your wire using a crimping bead so that you can attach your fastener. Ask questions if you have any and observe for a few times.

**After that, it's time to get materials. Craft stores & hardware stores plus the unconventional places I mentioned, like home goods stores, are where I've found all my materials.

-I bought a bead board, crimping beads, fasteners and plain spacer beads at the craft store. They also often have sales on the more expensive fashion beads and I try to look out for those.

-But beads and "beading" and bead stores are a thriving, lucrative business. There's even conventions. (Honestly! Google "jewelry bead convention" and you'll get hits for expos, shows and conventions galore).

-You also need wire cutters and pliers. I bought a combo at Ace hardware and I love the thing. But I also have little pliers and wire cutters, purchased at the bead store, for the wire wrap jewelry and for the more delicate necklaces.

-The bead board is very useful. I have the baseball game on in the background as I sit on the couch and arrange the possible patterns. This is my favorite part.

-I have my beads arranged in four sorting boxes, again purchased from the craft store. They're sorted by size, material and color. I have neutral color spacer beads-gold, silver, black, white, clear, etc- in one box. The more high end, chunky beads in another. The high end small beads in the a third and the plastic ones are in the forth.

I love mixing the materials, too. Glass with wood with stone with plastic.

**I will use another blog most to get into the particulars of the general things I blogged about in this entry. Look for future posts with pictures, showing how to do the particulars.

Au and Spheres - Glass and Gold beads

2008-05-18T00:18:00.008-04:00

Au and Spheres

Gold glass squares, round purple wooden beads, round periwinkle costume beads, and some pink and clear ones on black elastic. This is a pretty one to wear with blues, purple and pinks or neutrals like white and brown.

$12.50

NB-GDMD-AUSP

How to Make Costume Jewelry - unconventional places for beads

2008-05-17T02:12:00.005-04:00

I started making jewelry a long time ago--about 12 years ago. First, I just made them from beads and hemp and would weave the beads into the hemp strings through a simple pattern. So, I stared collecting beads back in 1997.

At the same time, I was working at Pier 1 Imports, of all places. They had such pretty napkin rings. Rings that used very nice glass beads for material.

When I started to purchase beads at bead store, I realized that if I took apart the napkin rings, ones on clearance, etc. I could get the same high quality beads for much cheaper.

So, now, I search the clearance section of home goods stores for napkin rings made with beads, buy a few, take them apart and remake them into necklaces.

Thus your first tip in making pretty costume necklaces--look for beads in unconventional places.

The Mystery Behind the Magic

2008-05-17T02:01:00.003-04:00

I'm so busy with everything else in my life these days--graduate school for creative writing, moving my stuff from Weymouth to West Roxbury, Boston, starting another library job, continuing with the green job buy selling eco friendly products, then the milestones--friends turning 30, brother getting married, favorite kid having dance recital, etc. etc.--that I've barely made a thing in the last few weeks. I did make Mom an very pretty (if I do say so) brown and silver necklace, using a gorgeous rectangular stone she got for me when she went down to New Orleans. I took a picture and will post later, when I have a bit of time. (I'm scheduled to have a bit of time in 2012.)

In the meantime, I'll be posting some "how to" blogs here. Tips and tricks on making jewelry, particularly how to make costume jewelry.

I'll be letting you know where I get my beads, how I think of my patterns and what I consider while making a costume jewelry piece. Of course, it's all amateur stuff. I mean, I would never declare to someone, "I'm a jewelry maker," because of what I do on the side (when I'm not reading from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, or watching the Sox, or writing my daily blog.)

However, when I wear my pieces out and about and get compliments from strangers, co-workers and friends alike, I know I'm doing something right. So why not share the method to my madness? I think it's be fun!

Thus ends the long old reflecting blog. Next one will be shorter, I promise

Wire Wrap Jewelry the first - The Brown One

2008-03-07T01:56:00.016-05:00

Wire Wrap Jewelry (the first) The Brown One - pendant necklace

The Brown One - This is a tiger eye stone, I believe. The wire is steel. The chain is hemp. Au so naturel.

While bedridden & foggy headed sick with a mysterious stomach bug for the last three weeks that, knock wood, I have kicked, one of the things I did was teach myself how to make wire wrapped jewelry. Please note, again, I'm an amateur. This is the first one.

All the stones were purchased in a cave in Bermuda. No, I'm not kidding. See the "Materials" box for details).

Pretty in Pink Necklace

2008-02-14T03:01:00.011-05:00

Pretty in Pink Necklace - pink dyed wood and costume beaded necklace

I was inspired by all the 3-5 year old cousins and daughters-of-friends that I know (in order of appearance: Meghan, Catherine, Adi, Lilah, Cece, Anaya, Grace and some day Fiona, Avery, Rosa and Taylor) to make the prettiest pink-y-est necklace I could possible think of. This one is tiny clear pony spacer beads, pink plastic in two shades, silver and tiny wooden cylinders. Ouila! Tres tres rose!!!

$10.00

NB-PKMD-PRTY

Pink Elbows

2008-02-14T02:59:00.008-05:00

Pink Elbows - hand made costume necklace with glass beads

I'm suddenly noticing a food thing going on here...Oh well. Such is the way. This one looks like pink noodles (glass). I also used glass turquoise and white beads of various shapes and some plastic black filler beads for the neck area, so it's more comfortable to wear.

$15.00

NB-PKLG-ELBW

Neapolitan

2008-02-14T02:55:00.009-05:00

Neapolitan Necklace - wooden and glass beads in strawberry, chocolate and vanilla color

Neapolitan ice cream, the classic Italian gelato, is strawberry, vanilla and chocolate, so naturally I had to name this one after that Italian dessert. This Italian inspired costume jewelry has neapolitan beads that are wooden, spacer beads are tiny clear pony beads and in the middle pendant is a very unique orange-yellow glass bead. So this is a mix of glass costume jewelry and wooden costume jewelry.

I made this for my sister Chrissy, but she wasn't ecstatic about it, so I have to make a different one for her and make sure this goes someone totally in love with it. So if you're costume jewelry shopping and find this, know that I saved it, just for you.

$15.00
NB-MTLG-NEAP

Jimmies with Sherbet

2008-02-14T02:45:00.004-05:00

Jimmies with Sherbet - pink wooden bead & black and orange costume beads, a vibrant thing for a vibrant thing

In New England, sprinkles are actually jimmies. This necklace is like having lots of jimmies (black sheen bugle beads) and a little bit of sherbet (orange plastic and wooden pink tiny cylinders). Tasty.

UPDATE: They call jimmies jimmies in Minnesota. Alura has this necklace because "it goes with her outfit perfectly."

Where the Magic Happens

2008-02-14T02:42:00.002-05:00

This is my bead board. I usually design a bunch at once and then string them later. This board has "Baby" (baby pink and baby blue), The Orange One (the orange one) and Funky Tout (an everything necklace with a funky flair). There. Now you can see how it comes about. A little behind the scenes action.

Mom's Valentine

2008-02-13T02:58:00.007-05:00

Mom's Valentine Necklace - made with love (and costume pearls and glass beads)

Pink quartz, red, turquoise, purple and grass green glass, pearly, clear tiny pony strong together for 24 inches makes a pretty necklace for my mother, for Valentine's Day. I hope she likes it.
(She better. It took me 3 1/2 hours to make!)

Pink Christmas

2008-02-13T02:28:00.007-05:00

Pink Christmas - a Christmas necklace with some pink

My dear preschooler Cecilia helped me make Christmas Party necklaces for my preschool/kindergarten age cousins - Meghan, Catherine and Grace. This is what we came up with: red, green, white plastic pony beads, pink glass beads and shiny string.

Pink Party

2008-02-13T02:24:00.006-05:00

Pink Party - pink and black costume beads, a fun, short necklace

The Pink Party is black and pink, which are crazy girl party colors. It reminded me of a co-worker's punk outfit for Halloween. There's reddish pink, bright pink and light pink costume beads, tiny clear pony beads, black sheen bugle beads. It's about 10" long. Simple but still SASSY!!!

NB-PKMD-PRTY

Just Spring

2008-02-13T02:21:00.007-05:00

Just Spring - pastel costume beaded necklace, perfect for spring

Just Spring looks a lot like Easter. It made me sing the e e cumming's poem "In Just Spring...when the world is mudlicious"...and it gets even wackier from there, trust me. Anyway, I made this at the same time as the Easter necklace. This one has a little green in it so it has the full range of spring colors - grass, sun, sky and pink flowers. The beads are long silver cylinders, blue and clear tiny pony beads, yellow plastic, pink leaf and green triangle for the major part of the necklace.

$15.00

NB-MTLG-JUST

This necklace can be paired with Easter to make a two chain necklace.

Jaded Black

2008-02-13T02:19:00.003-05:00

Jaded Black - green glass and black costume beads, a long necklace for Jenny

This one belongs to Jenny now. It's black shiny plastic beads with green glass globes, silver squares and a jade green glass circle bead. Longer than most of the rest but more interesting for it.

Frijoles Noir

2008-02-13T02:15:00.005-05:00

Frijoles Noir - a short black necklace with costumes beads (that kind of look like black beans)

Who doesn't love a Frenish names? I was being tongue in cheek when I started to name this "black beans" but then added the French word for black to be "sophisticated." This has alternating sky blue, silver and black sheen bugle beads with shiny black ovals.

Everything 1

2008-02-13T02:09:00.004-05:00

Everything 1 - a silver necklace, a gold necklace, a black necklace, all in one

This one now belongs to my cousin Dominique. I called it "Everything" because it goes with everything. Theres alternating silver and gold tiny pony and long cylinder beads with shiny black globes. I will be making more of these because it got the most approval from the "I like simple jewelry" crowd.

Grunge

2008-02-13T02:07:00.003-05:00

This one's kind of old school with the mid-90s middle multicolor bead that's very grunge-into-hippie look, with red and green plastic pony beads and a recycled leather string.

Easter

2008-02-13T02:03:00.005-05:00

Easter Necklace - pastel costume beads for pretty Easter necklace

This one is called Easter because of the pastel colors I used. It's pink leaf plastic, pink flower plastic, one yellow glass bead in the middle and small blue and clear glass tiny pony filler beads. Cute times. Cute times.

$15.00

NB-MTMD-ESTR

This necklace pairs with Just Spring to make a layered necklace.

Candy

2008-02-13T02:01:00.003-05:00

I was new at taking photos of my designs for the first couple of pix, so bear with me. Anyway, here is Candy. Green and white plastic pony beads, turquoise plastic circle and recycled leather strong. Look like a candy necklaces, kind of.

Turquoise Noodles

2008-02-13T01:57:00.005-05:00

Turquoise Noodles - turquoise and green glass beads, purple wooden beads, a fun, hand crafted necklace

I have a bunch of glass beads that look like pasta - but they're actually glass cylinders. I think they're the most playful beads in my collection and I love this necklaces. Be on the look out for "Pink Noodles" in a further post. My friend Rene has "Green Noodles."

Also, this has green glass and purple-pink wooden beads on an elastic string.

MARCH UPDATE: This now belongs to Erin, for her first anniversary of her 29th birthday.

Ocean, the Earth Day Necklace

2007-11-24T13:58:00.006-05:00

Ocean, the Earth Day Necklace - clay beads in blue and green and silver costume beads (the clay beads are recycled so its perfect for its namesake)

Ocean

Ocean - If I'm not mistaken, I believe that Ocean now belongs to Colleen. But if you like it, I can make something like it for you. I got the big speckled beads off of a broken necklace I bought at the Goodwill in Bangor, Maine, back in freshman year of college (or at least early college). I'm not sure the material. I think it's clay. This is the mystery yet beauty of recycled beads. I also used white plastic mini pony beads, translucent blue bugle beads, and plastic green. I love the crinkled silver beads and just purchased some more, so be prepared to see them again. I chose the name Ocean for this because it reminds me of the colors of the shoreline: greens, blues and some glints of silver and white.

Warm

2007-11-24T13:50:00.007-05:00

Warm - beads in warm tones (one of my favorite creations!)

Warm is made from all warm colors, hence the name. :) If you're looking for gold fashion jewelry, this is a really unique way to get it. Warm has square golden glass beads with red dodecahedron (see, ninth grade geometry can come in handy some day...) costume beads and brown wooden beads. I like to mix materials and create the prettiest design by look, not necessarily by materials.

$15.00

NB-GDMD-WARM

Dreaming Bridge Designs

2007-04-25T12:30:00.002-04:00

Hello dear visitor. Welcome to Dreaming Bridge Designs, a fun place to shop costume jewelry. This is the homepage for all of the designs in the "Dreaming Bridge Designs" collection of the best costume jewelry. (Well, at least in my not-so-humble opinion!)

I thought it would be nice to create a webpage for each handmade costume jewelry piece that I create. The range of materials and intricacies of designs vary. Some of the designs are simple, some would be considered high end costume jewelry. If you have any questions or comments, you can email:

bridge@dreamingbridge.com

Please contact me if you are interested in one of these jewelry fashions or in having custom costume jewelry designed especially for made for you. I'd be happy to oblige.

Each handcrafted costume jewelry piece in the Dreaming Bridge Designs collection is one-of-a-kind by me, Bridget Madden. While I work in a completely different field and have other creative outlets, I have been making quality costume jewelry for ten years now. I'm not one of the major fashion jewelry designers by any means, but I love creating these pieces and following the fashion jewelry trends.

Thanks for visiting and come back soon.