Do You Still Remember This...?

...Clay Jeani, Pearl and Turquoise from Szarka?
Finally managed to take pictures of this completed necklace today.
Completed this more than a week ago but yeah! took me a while to snap these pictures.
Anyway, I used up almost all the pearl and turquoise and of course the Clay Jeani Pendant.
The finished piece is quite heavy but love it nevertheless.
I'll leave you with the pictures.....

Hmm...I should have made matching earrings and bracelet from the left over pearl and turquoise.
Well, that's for another day :)
Thank you Szarka for everything.

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

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Another Flora Pendant

Actually, this wire wrapped flora pendant was completed last weekend. However, I was busy the whole week that I didn't get around to posting it till almost another weekend again!
Stones are combination of Tourmaline, Cherry Quartz, Rose Quartz (Focal) and Czech Beads (Leaves).
This one is my favorite so far although I have wire wrapped similar one back in June.
Hammering was kept to minimum as the 19ga wire is already hard enough.

 

Weekend is just a few hours away so here is wishing you a wonderful floral weekend! :)
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The third Flora Pendant, 7 petals

Wire Wrapped Flora Pendant - 7 Petals

Its almost Friday, 5 days since my last post. Mmm.....wish I can post more frequently.
The between posts is getting wider and wider.
This picture been sitting on my desktop for the last 4 days and I kept getting distracted although I kept telling myself to post it - everyday.
Tomorrow I'd be away whole day and by weekend I'd be busy with family matter so I am posting it NOW :)

This wire wrapped flower pendant looks familiar? Yeah, here's my first one. Only, this time around there are 7 petals instead of 5.
Another one similar to this design is the next project.
Hope to finish it this weekend.

New Wire Wrap Adjustable Ring, TAW Ring and Steel Rose

3 rings to share today - Twice Around the World (TAW) Wire Wrap Ring (Turquoise), Wire Wrap Rose Ring (all wire) and an Adjustable Ring, with my favourite gemstone, tourmaline.
I remember taking pictures of these 3 rings last week but I must have lost or misplaced them while transferring files from the old laptop. Can't find them last night so I retook these pictures this morning.

Planning to refine the technique for the newvAdjustable Ring (bottom left pic above) and hopefully to come up with a new step by step wire jewelry eTutorial :) Been a while.
Notice any difference to the Rose Ring (bottom right pic above)? :)

Close up of the TAW Ring. This I made with 22ga wire as it is easier to work with. If you have my tutorial for this TAW Ring, you will know why :) Its quite a handfull to hold 6 wires on one end and another 6 on the other end and at the same time shaping the ring shank and maintaining the wires at their position.

This one is another Japanese Bead Adjustable Ring completed earlier. A hit because it is easy to put on and eye-catching.

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Available Tutorials:
TAW Wire Wrap Ring eTutorial
Wire Wrap Rose Ring Tutorial

Religious Pendants - Wire Wrap Cross

Not very productive the last few days but I managed to complete these two custom order wire wrap crosses.
I use 19ga wire for the frame of this swirly wire wrap cross while the swirls are 20ga wire. The focal is a piece of coin pearl. Don't you just love those swirls - inspired by Erin.
I have a tutorial for this cross at my Etsy shop here - Wire Wrap Cross Pendant

This second cross is inspired by Iza. This time around the stone is tourmaline and the size of the cross is a wee bit smaller, as per request. Don't try this out, or else you will get addicted to the weaving :)

Here is wishing you a great weekend and happy creating.
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Deadlines, Surfing, Ink, T-shirts and TAW Wire Wrap Bracelet

Seems that my deadlines are never ending. They keep coming one after another. Can be good and can be not so good. There are many things I want to do here that I have been postponing for a long time and it is October already!!! Just 3 more months left for 2010.
I hope I am not boring you with my ranting about this again. Can't help it especially when it is a big part of my life - Deadlines.
Here are some of the things that I have been able to complete and partly completed (pst! besides my official "Work" of course).

ArtFire Group Deal: At least during this busy time, I decided to take up Artfire Group Deal of $5.95/month. I think it is a very good deal and investment :) Hopefully! In the next few months (don't dare to say few days or weeks), I got to set sometime to promote this ArtFire Shop of mine and use some of the tools available.
If you have been sitting on the fence, you still have few hours to consider (hope it is not too late by the time you read this) - follow this link ArtFire $5.95/mth Group Deal is ending today.

Net surfing and reading: Yeah! I do allocate a bit of time for net surfing and read interesting articles/posts from sites that I subscribe to as well as random sites. Life will be very boring especially if it is only about Deadlines :)

Here is one for information and knowledge - very short one, so won't take a lot of your time (I prefer short and straight to point articles. I am sure you do to). I am not into beauty products kind of person but if you are, check out this post from Blisstree- Beauty salon treatments health effects.
Her is How ink is made from Apartmenttherapy - Do you know how ink is made? Interesting.

Talking about ink, this website has all kind of things under one roof. First, I discover funny t-shirts that leads me to Cafepress funny posters.  Now that I have discovered this website, I need more time to explore. Lots of interesting ideas and potential here. For the short time I spent there, I know the site is for both artists and shoppers. You can open your own shop (both free and paid), create then sell your own custom-design products. If you prefer to shop, like me :) check out what you can find at savings.com. That should help us save some.

Wire Jewelry: Still my favorite subject :) and can't end this post without showing recently completed pieces. Here are 2 Twice Around the World (TAW) Wire Wrap Bracelets. Completed last weekend actually, but only managed to work on the pictures this week.
The darker one is wire wrapped with tri-color tiger eyes while the reddish one with agate.

Both measures about 7 inches long.

This tiger eye one is taken.
The agate one hmmmm....I am still thinking what to do with it.

So that's about it.
Signing off here and here's:
How to make this TAW Wire Wrap Bracelet
How to make a TAW Wire Wrap matching Ring

Have a great weekend!

Wire Wrapped Heart Brooch

Another wire wrapped Heart from me. This time around for a brooch. This is a commissioned piece and the overall design is from the Client herself.
She also indicated the approximate size for the brooch. That is the little square where the brooch is sitting in this picture below. Almost exact size.
However, I didn't managed to wire wrap the flower within the heart as designed. Almost there but not as symmetrical as in her sketch. I got carried away.....!

Instead of one stone at the center, it ended up with several as seen here. Hmmm....I hope she still likes it this way. Those reddish teardrop stones are agate. The rest are seed pearl and Swarovski Crystal.

The wire end for the pin is sharpened by filing and lots of hammering done to harden the heart frame and the pin to make it springy.

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Wire Wrapped Cluster Ring

Back in October 2007, I made a similar wire wrapped cluster ring.
Wow! How time flies. I didn't make a lot of this ring though.
In fact, this is only my second one actually :)
All components except for the stones and beads are handcrafted.
Leave you all with this ring and have a great weekend.
Will be back soon.

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Herringbone Weaved Rings Revisited

It's been a while since I got into this Herringbone Weaved Craze.
In fact, when I first got hooked with wire wrapped jewelry, the Herringbone Weaved technique is one of the first that I learned....because....the tutorial is available for free online.
Free tut link at the bottom of this post.
They can be ugly if you are new to this weave...LOL.
Look at these two that I made 3 years ago..don't laugh!
But then I got hooked and made more of them.
So, the lesson from this...don't give up, you will end up making beautiful Herringbone Weaved Rings....hehehe...like me...
Here is for Sunday sharing.

Be adventurous and you will be able to come up with various pretties with this versatile weave - bracelet for example.

Free Tutorials Links:
Herringbone Weave by Snowskin

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Gaga Over Green

This one takes longer than expected.

Or am I procrastinating? :)

Tend to do the easier ones first and for the last few weeks I have been busy with works.

For this piece, I spent a lot of time choosing,

un-choosing, matching and un-matching the green themed stones.

This is the final result and I am not even sure if this is the best match.

This necklace consists of several components. Here are two of them.
The green adventurine wire wrapped pendant and beads cluster consisting of various gemstones - peridot, jade, rutile quartz and green agate.

The main part, the heart shaped wire wrapped pendant, adorned with the various stones including peridot, cherry quartz and prehnite.

The chain part, wire wrapped gemstones including moonstones, green agate, jade, clear quartz, prehnite and Swarovski crystal for a bit of sparkle.

Sparkly Crystal Rings Again :)

This is what I have been working on for over a week - Sparkly Crystal Rings.
Finally got all 64 of them done this morning and delivered.
With a day job and traveling (lots of them lately),
I make them during the few hours mostly between 10pm and 12 pm.
And weekend of course.

This sparklies (Swarovski Crystals) are wire wrapped with 24ga gold filled wire.

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TUTORIAL for this Sparkly Crystal Ring is available at my Etsy Shop

The Last Air Bender

After William and Henry watched The Last Air Bender, and me surfing for pictures/images of the movie, it struck me that I can actually wire wrap something for each of them.
My mistake, I told them too soon.
From then on they kept reminding (pestering) me to make it like NOW!
I gave in and kept myself busy last two nights.
These are the results from.....The Last Wire Bender!..Opps! LOL.
How about that? Mmmm, don't really want to be he last though :)
William likes the Air Bender so this is his (left) while Henry wants the Fire Bender.

I can't get them to pose for pictures with the pendants.
They just want to hold them and show off to their friends.

Me? me want to make myself the Water Bender :)
Have a great weekend all and happy wrapping.

Back to Basic Collection - Swirly Wire Earrings

Rather slow this weekend.
Still working on one piece since yesterday when decided to divert to the Back to Basic Collection.
Here is sharing another piece for this collection - Swirly Wire Earrings.
Looking very well endowed...like pregnant and suddenly I realize how much it looks like my logo...LOL

Notice the uneven surface. Those are hammering marks.

I like to think they are added character :) 

(Just an excuse to cover up my inability to hammer evenly)

I know, some people prefer totally smooth surface.

These are tiny 3mm garnet. 

Added so the earrings don't look so boring :)

Somehow, I have problem taking pictures with dark/black background.

Pictures always turn out "unreal" or "off color".

Any idea why this is so?

Any suggestions on taking nice pictures on dark background?

Wire Jewelry - Back to Basic Collection

Maybe it has something to do with age as I am quite slow in recovering from last weekend trip.
Still feeling tired although I didn't do much there -- mostly walking, window shopping, chit chatting and lots of laughing.
Now my right leg and arm are hurting slightly.
Its like a tiredness that wouldn't to go away.
Thought I didn't get enough sleep so went to bed earlier than usual last 2 nights but still the same.

OK, enough about that and here is the pair of earrings made before I left last weekend.
This is my Back to Basic Collection - Simple three pieces of wires on each side adorned with tear drop glass beads. All wires were hammered to harden.