Update, for the coming Halloween. I’m still letting one of my pumpkins model in my homemade Halloween mini-hat, but I’m showing some new pictures of it too. The hat is the first mini-hat I ever made, from black wool, orange satin and a bunch of decor in black, orange and green. It measures about 10,5 cm i height and the brim about 12,5 cm in diameter. Made from my own patterns.

Click on image for front, side and back view of the hat.

I just have to show off the first two hats I’ve ever made – from scratch, I might add (with many thanks to Sofia for the tips on how to shape them). These are not hats I’ve bought and decorated, they are handmade from my own design and patterns, as is most of the decor.

The bigger one was made as a birthday present to SilverSerpent’s own Maria, who did a great job of incorporating it into her steampunk outfit. Anyone who attended Kontrast – Swecon 2012 in Uppsala surely remembers it.

The other one I made smaller, and with a more modest decor, but then again, it was intended for a more modest outfit, namely the sort of victorian one I wore on the first day of Kontrast.

More about Maria’s hat here: Dark Victorian

The idea for this bracelet/necklace formed when I first saw dragon veins agate, and fell in love with it. In the pictures, you’ll recognize it as the slightly misty beads with darker veins. Dragon veins agate comes in many colors, but I chose purple, silver and black for this piece.

Apart from the dragon veins agate, this has glass beads and crystals in purple, clear, black and silver, along with three dragon shaped pendants. The beads range in size from 2.7 to 8 mm.

This I made last winter, inspired by the snow, ice and rimfrost (we had a lot of all three). Given that we just got 5 cm of snow, I guess it’s time to start wearing it again.

The bracelet/necklace has five pendants in the shapes of snowflakes, and glass beads and crystals in white, clear, silver and different shades of blue. The beads range in size from 2.7 to 8 mm in diameter.

Another one of my combined bracelets/necklaces that I made this summer, inspired by the Japanese cherry tree. This is for all intents and purposes meant to be a spring and summer piece of jewelry, so it feels just a bit wrong to be posting it in October, but on second thought, pink is a color you can wear all year round.

This piece features five silver colored metal pendants, and glass beads and crystals in pink, white, clear, brown and green. The pearls range in size from 2.7 mm to 10 mm in diameter.

…it felt fitting to make a new Halloween bracelet.

This is actually a bracelet and necklace combined – designed to go once around the neck, or twice around the wrist. It features a Jack-O’Lantern, a spider, a skeletal hand, a bat and vampire teeth, with a combination of glass beads and crystals in orange, white, black and green. Among them are some of my personal favorites, the Cat’s Eye pearls, which have a beautiful shine. The pearls range in size from 2.7 to 8 mm in diameter.