Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights

I have been really enjoying etching using some lovely digital damask patterns from Aesthetic Addiction on Etsy. I was toying with some double-sided folded shapes for earrings, trying to think how I could add hanging loops here and there for beads. I had sketched out this idea and these were my prototype. I was so thrilled that my "thought experiment" worked in real life! The beads are Czech glass--daggers and roundels in a moss green, and lovely lavender nuggets.

Call  me crazy, but I picture them with jeans (or your favorite belly dancing costume):

Arabian Nights casual by lunebijoux featuring lacy tops

And when you wear your hair up, these earrings will look exactly the same from the back!

These are sold, but I will be making more and adding them to my Etsy shop. Stay tuned!

Carefree Copper Earrings

 

Copper Arrowhead Earrings

We've waited a long time this year for an elusive spring to arrive. Now that June is nearly upon us, I think it is safe to say that it's here. Time to put away the sweaters and expose some skin. Nothing puts me in the mood for spring and summer like brightly colored earrings! So I used large Czech glass rondelles in orange/pink with accents of teal, along with these wonderful copper arrowhead components from Kristi Bowman for a striking combination.

Carefree by bohobeader featuring a beach bag tote

For more carefree spring and summer earrings, click here or here.

Turquoise Sun

I just can't seem to get away from copper and turquoise these days. These gorgeous copper charms are by Kristi Bowman Design. She is such a talented clay artist and jewelry designer! I'm also loving the pairing of turquoise and blue with mustard yellow.

I'd wear them with this fun summer outfit that I created on Polyvore.

Turquoise Sun by kristyabner featuring heart sunglasses

                   To see these earrings (sorry they sold today) or see more of my work please check out my website.

Thanks so much,

Kristy Abner

Kristy's Kreations

Double Trouble

These new double discs are all I've got to show for this week but I am super stoked about this new design in my Harbinger Collection.  I just started playing around with some metal discs and washers, and these double disc riveted dangles happened by accident! To spice em up a bit, I hung a dangling Prehnite cube in the center of the washers.

I really like how these turned out! I am working hard on getting lots of tin jewelry made for an impromptu Trunk Show this weekend in Hamilton NY at a shop called Swank.  I am going to try to take some time to make some of these earrings for my online shop and will get them listed soon!

Making a statement with earrings is a great diversion from the typical attention hog, the necklace. Lately the bigger the better! I can envision these being worn with a cute Summer Maxi style long dress in that beautiful rust red color.

Damask Whispers

In March I took a class with Debbi Simon, who is an innovative jewelry designer. We worked with metal and torches, stamping images that were then resists for the flame to produce these marvelous colors and patterns.

I took that knowledge to make some pendants for the senior dancers from my daughter's dance studio. Puzzle pieces to symbolize how they are all interconnected and a necessary part of the whole, and each was stamped with a different pattern to symbolize their uniqueness.

Some of my practice pieces were copper blanks that I had cut in 3/4" x 1 3/4" so that I could practice the technique. To me they look like the softest and most luxurious damask linens that have a shimmery reversed pattern in swirls of blues and greens and purples on the copper. I couldn't let these test pieces go to waste.

This picture is really hard to show the beauty of the colors. You will have to trust me. The pattern shimmers in the light with rainbow hues. And there is pattern and color on each side so you look as good coming as going.

I paired these copper damask dangles with some terra cotta colored lampwork glass beads rolled in silver leaf from Julianna Cannon of Studio Juls. These one of a kind earrings are available on my website.

I would pair these earrings with a soft and flowy sundress like the Varanasi Maxi from Anthropologie.

 

 

Erin Prais-Hintz invites you to go on a journey of inspiration at her blog Treasures Found :: Inspiration is Everywhere. You can view a gallery of her work at http://www.tesoritrovati.com/ or purchase her popular line of 'Simple Truths' in her Etsy shop.

To Outdo A Gypsy!

Did you know that in the gypsy culture they are always trying to outdo one an another? For example, if one gypsy girl had shall we say earrings? that measured 4 inches long and had 10 diamond filigrees on each earring, the next gypsy girl would get 5 inch earrings with 14 diamond filigrees on each earring and Swarovski crystals at the end... and so on and so on...

 Well I am OK with that! I love to make these large and long gypsy earrings! They are fun and full of elegance and whimsy! The crystals on these are Montana Blue, but any other colour is doable if you want something with more bling!  I change them up as you have seen if you follow this blog. I have a large variety of them since they are one of my top sellers!

You can find these in my Etsy shop. I don't think I have much left other than these, but hope top change that this week. 
Feel free to request your own gypsy style earrings, I can create something special just for you!!

Stop by again soon! 

Marie

Margaritas in Marrakesh

Margaritas in Marrakesh

I love Moorish architecture, and it fascinates me to see Moorish design elements trickle from Spain to the southwest United States, where it streamlined itself a bit into Mission style. These earrings could be straight from a bazaar in Marrakesh, or a street fair in Santa Fe! The clover-shaped ring beads are of natural, winter white howlite, and I've combined them with Indonesian glass beads in matte lime green, petite Czech glass flowers in topaz, and glass tile beads in amber. (Howlite ring beads and lime green seed beads from Happy Mango Beads, Czech glass flowers from BobbiThisnThat.) All sterling silver construction.

I picture them with something loose and comfortable like this:

Margaritas in Marrakesh by lunebijoux featuring leather shoes

You can find more earrings in this series, and other items at my Etsy shop HERE.