Necklaces

Handmade Necklaces in Creative Animal Designs

See all my earring designs.

Here are some pendant choices.

I’ll bet the very first jewelry item ever created was a necklace. You don’t have to put holes anywhere, and necks just look made for necklaces. I wouldn’t be surprised if cave women (and cave men, for that matter) were wearing necklaces long before the idea of clothing was fashionable.

When we were kids we’d sit on the front lawn of the elementary school next door to our house and pluck a bunch of clover flowers. Then we’d tie them all together, one thin stem looped and knotted around the clover head. Necklaces were certainly the first jewelry I ever created. We all made clover chains, the longer the better. I think we must have had contests to see who could come up with the most clover flowers to create the most impressively long chain.

So of course I had necklaces of various types in The Magic Zoo almost from the beginning. Cat necklaces, dog necklaces, horse necklaces and so on. Even “all bead” necklaces, way back in the dawn of my career as an animal jewelry artist. But as you might suspect, animal necklaces formed the larger part of my designing in this area.

Now I have quite a number of pendants and chains, forming hundreds of additional necklace possibilities. I know not when it will all end, or if it ever will!