Wire Wrapped Fossilized Coral Pendant

Fossilized Coral! Fossilized Coral! (proper name is Agatized Fossil Coral)
Not sure why but I kept forgetting the name of this stone.
Most of the time, I only remember the coral part :)
This stone comes is several shades of colors - brown, reddish, gray, yellow, red as can be seen here.
The beautiful part of this stone is the flower like patterns in the stone.  Just awesome!

This pendant measures about 1in long and 0.8in wide.
I wrapped it in this particular way so that the "flowers" are all visible because that's the beauty of the stone.

Further reading on Agatized Fossil Coral (Gem Select) here.

Airport and Donut Jade Pendant - Pipa Wrap

Here I am at the KKIA waiting for my flight home to Kuching.
Been here for the last 2 hours and I have another hour to wait.
So, here I am posting another wire wrapped piece which I have been wanting to post the last few days but interrupted by this travelling.

This is a very tiny donut jade pendant.
The donut jade itself is only about 1 cm in diameter.
A custom order by a close friend of MIL.
Had hard time figuring out how to wrap it and in the end decided that the pipa wrap would be the safest besides adding size to the tiny jade.

All through the making of this pendant, I was worried that I am going to break the jade.
Its so delicate but thankfully it didn't happen.
Ok, got to go...see you in Kuching :)

Wire Wrapped Tulip Brooch/Pendant/Earring - All in One (maybe new Tutorial)

Spent the whole day wire wrapping this tulip brooch cum pendant cum earring (1 side only :)) and took lots of pictures as I am thinking of turning them into step by step tutorial later on...but still thinking. That is why the "maybe" in the title...hehe. Why "maybe" you may ask? Well, writing a step by step wire jewelry tutorial is not as easy as you thought. Takes lots of time in choosing the best pix, editing them, prepare the doc, writing, editing, editing, editing, proofreading, proofreading, edit again, formatting, converting files, etc. etc. That is why. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this piece and I shall announce it if I finally decided to do the tutorial. Maybe I should just go ahead with the tutorial. Ah! Let me sleep over it. Sweet dreams and good nite.

Up and Coming Wire Jeweler in the House

Introducing someone who has shown interest in this thing called Wire Jewelry. 

He did play around with wire and made me these 2 pairs of 'S' shaped earrings when he's 4 years old. 

He is now 17 years old. Time really flies while they are growing. 

He is slowly taking interest in creating wire jewelry again.

Very slowly as he will be sitting for his exam soon.

Here are some of his earlier wire wrapped pieces with stainless steel, copper and brass wires. They were his 2018 year end long school holiday projects. Most of them are practice pieces. Haha, yeah, it took me that long to post them today.

This guy is good with crafting and working with his hands. In his own words, he likes creating "original designs" e.g. wooden crossbow, Katana, knives, mechanical thingy, etc.

Those are for another day posting.

Double Abundance and Time

How time flies. I didn't realize that its been a week since I last posted.
Office work been keeping me busy these days including weekends :(
Although I tried to keep work within the confine of "office hours", Monday - Friday, sometimes its just impossible. Not that I like to, but got to, as my line of work involves deadlines all the time.
Maybe my time management is not good enough. But I only have so much time right?
Will I do it better with a citizens watch?
That also explains why I have been a bit slow in the wire jewelry creations department.
By the time work is done, the mood for creating is not there anymore. Not only that, I have been out of touch with facebook friends and tweetering as well.
Most of the time, I'd be surfing here and there, aimlessly.
It is during one of these surfing session that I came across this site - of all sites, a watch site, gold mens watch, you name it, there is a long list there. Guess they know I have been thinking about time a lot these days. Not that I am planning to buy watch but I was attracted to the jewelry and the site layout.
You know I have been working on my site layout.
There are items and links I want to put up there but still no time to work on it.
This watch liquidator site is an inspiration.
I'd like my site to be like that one day - minimum clutter, easy and fast navigation and their shipping info, payment terms, F&Q are clearly explained in straight forward fashion.
Yeah! Lots of work needed there and clutters to clear up. What more, blogger now allows you to create your own templates design. Now I need more citizens watches!
Hopefully after this week, I'd be 'freer' to create.
I have said this hundred of times but its mid-March now and I am still behind.

Ok! not to bore you more with my rambles, here is a wire wrapped double donuts pendant I managed to complete after a long long time. Sorry Bi to have kept you waiting for a while :)
This is really a special pendant and the feeling it gives me is - ABUNDANCE!
Isn't it great?
I wish for abundance of time.
How about you?

 

Sea Horse - Variation

This wire wrapped seahorse pendant is another piece that took me long time to complete - almost whole day. The shaping of the seahorse frame took the longest time. Finally completed this pendant this evening. Matching earrings to go but that would be for later or tomorrow. This seahorse looks very pregnant don't you think so? Hehe! Its a custom order and I hope the new owner would love it as much as I do. Length - about 7 cm from top to bottom. Stones - garnet, tourmaline, Swarovski crystals and corals. Wire - 20ga for the frame and 28ga for weaving and coiling. I especially love the colors of the tourmaline (centre) when the sunlight shines through them.

Another Wire Wrapped Fossilized Coral Pendant, Large

Although it took less than 2 hours for this piece, posted 2 days ago, this one here took me the whole Sunday!
It doesn't look that complicated but I don't know why it took so long.
But, I admit a lot of time was spent massaging the piece and the wires and thinking how to wrap the wire so it will hold the Fossilized Coral in place.
Figuring and re-figuring, bending and unbending, wrapping and unwrapping the wires couple of times actually.

Hope it doesn't show here..hehe....
Clean look at the front right.
You wouldn't want to look the back of the pendant

Custom order for a special lady and I am running out of Fossilized Coral. 

Happy Valentine's Day - IN LOVE with Copper n Black Steel Wires

First of all I would like to wish HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to all readers and visitors of my blog. I hope you are surrounded by love and love ones on this special day and the days ahead. Thank you for visiting / revisiting my blog. Although I am not "celebrating" this day per se, I would like to think that everyday is a Valentine Day for me. Originally I was planning for a wire wrapped rose pendant but I ended up making these two rings instead. This time around I added Swarovski Crystal and Pearl as the focal on them. My favorite is this copper rose ring - 14ga wire. Comfortably heavy and love the size. Enjoy them! Tutorial for this ring is available - Click Here Wire Wrapped Rose Ring

The adjustable rose ring tutorial is here - Adjustable Rose Ring
WireBlissMei

They (Butterflies) Discover Nectar

I started this post yesterday but left before I can complete it.
Now, its almost 24 hours later - how time flies!
Continue on from yesterday.....
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Two butterflies and two flower pendants.
Perfect match!
Here's some facts about butterflies.
Butterflies only sip liquid food. These can be nectar from flowers, liquid from rotting fruits and.....(not so nice) also rotting animal flesh or animal fluids (yucky!).
Sipping is done using a tube-like proboscis.
This is their 'tongue' and it is long and flexible.
When not in use, this 'tongue' coils up into a spiral (mmm..love spiral).
These pendants were shipped out yesterday and I hope the new owner will love them.

Butterfly Pendant tutorial:
Wire Wrapped Butterfly Pendant Tutorial at Etsy

Related Posts:
Simple Butterfly Pendant
Copper Butterfly
Butterfly Pendants by Student - Emily
My First Butterfly back in 2008

Back to School and Peace Pendant

When the boys start school earlier this week after a week long holiday, it means back to busy time for me.
Besides work, basically its back to the routine of dropping and picking up the boys from schools.
Morning is not so much of a problem as I drop Henry at his kindy on the way to work.
At noon time, I have to rush to pick him up and drop him off at home by 12:30pm. As he gets out of the car, William gets in and off we go as he is in the afternoon session which starts at 12:45pm. After dropping him off, normally just on the dot, I'll drive straight to office, grab a quick lunch (normally tapao / take away) and back to work - all within 1 hour, provided there is no traffic jam.
That's basically my day on week days.
Now you know why I am always looking forward to weekends and holidays....hehehe.
I am sure there are many parents in similar situations as I am but that is part of life over here.
Not sure about other places though....maybe you can share.
Enough rambling, here is what we really need - PEACE - at home or outside home.
This wire wrapped Swarovski Crystal peace pendant was completed a while back but it got pushed back and back till now.

Its quite large, about 5cm in diameter but it is meant to grab attention :D
Have a PEACEful day!

Netted Agate Pendant and New Tuts

New Wire Wrapping eTutorials:
1. Twice Around the World (TAW) Wire Wrapped Bracelet (click this link)
2. Twice Around the World (TAW Wire Wrapped Ring (click this link)
Purchase No. 1 and get No. 2 for FREE.
Offer end 12:00am, May 31st 2010
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Back to creating, here is a large agate pendant wire wrapped with the 28ga wire (lots of them), netted style.
Been a long time since I last wrapped it this way - Beautiful Rubies 2008 and its very therapeutic I must say.
Unlike other wraps, I like this as almost the whole stone and its pattern is visible.

Jade Donut Pendant, Chinese Pipa

The last time I made a similar pendant was in April 01, 2008 - look at this post.
Exactly 2 years and 2 days ago! just notice the date when linking the post :)
How time flies.
Revisited, with a slightly bigger jade, unakite, red coral and agate (because its a custom order).

If you would like to learn how to make the pipa wrap with wire,
or Chinese Knots with wire, Corra has the tutorial/s. 

Corra is an expert in Chinese Knotting with wire.

(disclaimer - Corra's PIPA knot tutorial is for earrings and not this pendant

don't want to be blamed for misleading later on. Need a bit of modification for this piece)

Happy weekend and creating :)

Blooming Pendant

How time flies and its almost mid January already.
I have not been able to post since school started for the boys earlier this month and I am swarmed with work since 2010 ended. I foresee lots of traveling (for work) these two or three months.....
Anyway, no matter what, lets start the year with this bloom :D
Hope this year would be a smooth one, filled with blooms of happiness and success.

 

Have a beautiful Blooming Year 2011 :)

Related Blooming Pendants:

Discovery of Nectar

Another Flora Pendant

The First Flora Pendant

The Second Flora Pendant

The Third Flora Pendant

Wire Wrapped Butterfly Pendant by Emily

Emily did it again! I posted her other creations before - Wire Wrapped Tulip Pendant, Athena's Shield, Caged Herringbone Weaved Bead, Sparkly Ring and Rose Ring. She is getting better and better each day. Just look at her Wire Wrapped Butterfly Pendant below. Honestly, her butterfly looks prettier than mine :) Well done Emily! and thank you for sharing. Check out other wire wrapping tutorials in my Etsy Shop.

Simple Wire Wrapped Butterfly Pendant

While managing the sales last two days, I spent some time creating this simple wire wrapped butterfly pendant. This is similar to the copper butterfly created few days ago only that I use 19ga wire and this is smaller much smaller in size.
This is a potential low cost tutorial but we shall see.
Would you be interested?

Very tired now so good night (opps! morning) for now.

Wire Wrapped Jasper Donut Pendant

Seems like everyone is in shopping mood this month. Christmas shopping mood that is! It feels like only yesterday we celebrated Christmas 2009, and now 2010 is nearing its end. Are you in shopping mood as well? What do you want for Christmas? A sling backpacks maybe? Is that a hint? *wink*
I guess this is the best time of the year to shop.
Everywhere I go, I see sales, promotions, giveaways, holiday offers, special offers, etc. etc. 
Some are really very tempting but I'd go shopping early next month after payday :)
Before that, got to make more wire jewelry.
After all no moolah, no shopping!
K! Here is a recently completed piece of wire wrapped donut pendant.
Not sure about the type of stone but I believe its Jasper.

Love this stone as its cool and heavy to the touch. It is now with its new owner.
Hope she is happy and loving it.
You have a great day my dear readers.

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