Tubal Elegance II

Here's my completed green necklace, 18 inches in length. I'm going to make one in 22 inches for my friend, Y. She loves green and orange colours!

Now on to complete my peach necklace!

Royalty

This is another special order. An 18-inch necklace with 5 beaded beads in graduated sizes, 12mm, 8mm and 6mm. I used Delica beads with 15.0 glass seed beads and Swarovski pearls underneath. The rest of the necklace is Swarovski crystal bicones and rondelles which makes it suitable for evening wear as well. Looks nicer than the photo!

Tubal elegance

This week began as busy as usual but I was determined to sit down and produce something! I started on a few ideas and came up with this lovely 18-inch necklace. This is specially made for a custom order. I peyote stitched 11 beads in brilliant purples and fuchsias separated by Swarovski bicones and rondelles. A peyote beaded toggle ties everything together.

I was so inspired by the purple necklace, I made similar necklaces in blue, green, peach and pink! This blue necklace is 16 inches and hugs the neck quite nicely. Instead of using Swarovski rondelles, I used Swarovski pearls which changed the look.
The rest of the week will be used to complete these necklaces as part of my new collection to be shown in May. Look out for more inspirations in the weeks to come!

Back to work!

My dear friends,

On Monday 3rd March we received a phone call from my husband's sister informing us that his mum had passed away at home. He drove up with his nephew, niece and her boyfriend to Kuala Trengganu on Tuesday. I took the children out of school and we left on the bus on Wednesday. We arrived back late Thursday night, just in time for the children to return to the last day of school. Between them they missed 8 exams!

The Christian cemetery was the smallest I'd ever seen! Probably big enough to build two bungalows on the land! We are thankful that Mum's suffering has ended. She had a hip replacement about six years ago and several strokes later which rendered her incapable of speaking or doing anything for herself.

After we returned home I was involved in preparations for Good Friday so work was on hold for another two weeks! Today is my first day back at work and I'm trying to finish up a few back orders. I've had some inspiration for new pieces but that will have to wait until I'm done with these orders! I hope I can still remember the ideas!

Thank you for writing and calling about the jewelry pieces. I'm happy when people appreciate my work! Hello to NJ all the way in India! Thanks for your comments!

Until I next write and post the completed orders, do have a great week ahead!

Here's one last photo for the day! This is an endless necklace with a unique bead design. The big beads are made of Miyuki Delica beads in colours -- 2 reds, 2 purples, 2 greens and copper. They are 3-dimensional and really catch the light and attention too. I put together with faceted black onyx beads in various sizes. This necklace can go well with almost anything. An elegant black dress to a casual white rayon blouse and jeans!

I'm still working on several more designs but don't envisage completing them before next week. See you next week!

This is a lovely spiral rope necklace with beaded Rivolis! This is the "in" thing and is very lovely to look at especially when the Rivolis catch the light. I used two14mm and one 16mm Rivolis to bead around. These have no drill holes so I designed my own pattern to encase them. For the centre Rivoli I used Peridot gem stones as well. It's quite an addictive design and I'm looking forward to making lots more in different sizes and colours! However, they are expensive and not easy to find in sizes I want.

Finally!

Thank you for ytour constant feedback and suggestions. I apologize for my tardiness in putting up new designs. I tried earlier in the week but my camera was not behaving very well. Photos kept coming out blurred.

I spent the last week or two designing new pieces. Hours of sketching, getting together the beads in the colour schemes to my liking and then settling down to actually making my sketches come to life was very time consuming. I enjoyed the process very much though! The designs I posted today are totally mine. I hope you like them!

This is an elegant bracelet made from Swarovski pearls (creamrose) and cubic zircon crystals in three sizes which explains the lovely bling! I simply love it! It took me about 4 tries before I came up with this finished product. A strong magnetic clasp makes it extremely easy to wear! Very suitable for weddings. I will be making these in peach, pink, blue and green!





Here's a necklace similar to the bracelet design with slightly different crystals. It's 16 inches, close to the neck and very suitable for evening wear. I used different sizes of Swarovski pearls (creamrose and one peach)) and Japanese glass seed beads to make the curve in the necklace. As with the bracelet, this necklace can be made in almost any colour imaginable or available!





Here's another bracelet! I used Swarovski pearls to make flowers! The flowers are made from Miyuki Delica glass beads, size 11 and 15 glass beads as well. It's very comfortable to wear and again, can be done in any colour scheme. A nice casual piece to go with any day outfit but particular nice with jeans!






Another bracelet with pearl-centred flowers but a slightly different design. I used 6mm Swarovski crystals to link each flower. The clasp is triangular which makes it very secure.