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My Etsy Store is now Open
2008-03-06 15:30:00 Yippi! Finally I opened my store at Etsy . My first piece was up this afternoon and its the Fruitful Chinese Knot Earrings. The one person I have to thank is Corra. Thanks for announcing my shop opening as well. Corra is such a positive person, always motivated and motivating. My finally opening this etsy store (sooner than planned - I have been procrastinating for a while) is because of her More About: Open , Store
Here and There in Kuching & More Sparkling Rings
2008-03-02 15:44:00 Not again! Yeah, I am still with sparkling rings today. Hopefully, I will get all done by tomorrow. Only spent about 3 hours on the rings today as we went out for a ride this afternoon. Here are some photos of today's outing to a fishing village about 30km from the city and around Kuching City. Election day is just around the corner and posters and banners are all over Kuching. This is just More About: Rings
Sparkly Rings...some more
2008-03-01 15:11:00 Oh well, what can I say, only pictures of rings I got done today in this entry. More About: Rings
Sparkling Rings
2008-02-29 15:44:00 Just when I thought that I am quite slow with my hands, today I surprised myself with these sparkling swarovski crystal rings. I made them, all 16 of them this afternoon, while the boys were taking their nap. A new record for me. These rings are made up of 8mm swarovski crystal (round and rondelles) as the focal and surrounded by two gold plated 4mm round bead and 4 pieces of 5mm crystal More About: Rings
Earrings-Wired Chinese Knot
2008-02-28 15:32:00 After few days of inactivity, I finally managed to complete this pair of earrings today. This piece is based on Corra's Wired Chinese Knot that I mentioned the other day. Took me whole afternoon to make this. While wrapping the goldstone, pearls and lime colored gem (not sure what stone this is but I love the color, must check with the expert later!), I really have no idea where it was going More About: Earrings
Another Entangled Wire Bezel
2008-02-24 14:28:00 This is one long overdue piece I owe someone. I started off with a border wrap but failed miserably I don't even dare to show you the failure here.....:D. But this is better. To the new owner tomorrow. More About: Wire
New Rings
2008-02-23 15:45:00 These are some new rings completed today. I used various types of beads and gemstones including pearls and swarovski crystals for these rings. Each ring uses 4 beads and wrapped using a wire wrapping technique I learn from one of the wire jewelry forum I am in. To the people who shared this tutorial, thanks a lot for sharing. More About: Rings
Wired Chinese Knot
2008-02-19 16:34:00 The following experimental pieces of wire wrap works are my latest experiment. This is called Wired Chinese Knot by its creator (in wired form), Corra. I must say it is not as easy as it seems but when I finally got it, after two tries (got it wrong the first two times), it is not that difficult either. In the process, I think I found another way to wrap the wire but with a slightly different way
Turquoise Bracelet (New)
2008-02-18 10:09:00 This turquoise bracelet is to be matched with the turquoise necklace I made for Chea (sis in-law) the other day. Will be mailing it to her in the next couple of days. Hope she likes them. More About: Bracelet
New Pieces - Earrings
2008-02-17 15:24:00 These are three pair of earrings I managed to get done today. All are made for orders. More About: Earrings , Pieces
Went Shopping Today
2008-02-16 17:13:00 I went shopping this morning and look at what I have gotten for myself! Aren't they beautiful, especially those Labradorite Rondelles (10mm) and moonstone (8mm). Other than that, I also purchased two huge agate (oval) that have surface that look like fish scales. Really special this stones but quite heavy due to the size - about 3 in long. Other gems I bought include a strand of freshwater pearl More About: Shopping , Today
Tourmaline Briolettes & Pearl Earrings
2008-02-13 17:24:00 Happy Valentine! and here is a very special earring for this very special day. This is a commissioned piece and this time I use something I have never use before - tourmaline! I just love the color of this gemstone but they are just so expensive. They look like stars. The center piece are 6mm gold colored swarovski crystals. I wrap the pearls and tourmaline briolettes with 30g wire. Happy More About: Earrings , Pearl , Tourmaline
Fisherman Wire Jewelry
2008-02-10 15:28:00 Let me introduce you to the "Fisherman Jewelry ". These are the two new necklaces I mentioned last night. Was planning for one but turned out two of them. These two are a bit different from my other pretties because I used two metal jigs instead of the usual beads and crystals. I was tempted to buy these jigs when I visited the fishing tackle shop with hubby two weeks ago. Their colors are just More About: Wire
New Turquoise Necklace
2008-02-09 15:07:00 Back to wire wrap jewelry, today's completed piece is this turquoise necklace for my sister-in law in Calgary. The size of turquoise is about 8mm and I used 22g wire for the wrapping. It measures approximately 16in in length. Simple and elegant, that's how I see it. I hope it matches her earrings, or was it bracelet?...duh old age! Actually there is another piece of necklace in the making but I More About: Necklace
Still no Wire Jewelry but CNY Pix
2008-02-08 15:17:00 We are into the third day of the Chinese New Year and its a wet! wet! new year this year. Yesterday was not bad, no rain but it rained the whole day today although not very heavy. They call it "long life rain" - rain that last whole day and night or maybe days. As with previous years, the 2nd day is temple visiting day (for prayer) and relatives and friends visiting day. We visited three temples More About: Jewelry , Wire
Food and Fireworks
2008-02-06 15:55:00 No wire jewelry post today because its Chinese New Year Eve! Yeh...celebration time. If you ever wonder what we people eat during reunion dinner, oh well at least in our family, here are photos of some of the dishes we had earlier this evening. Big prawns are a must, fish and steamboat are also a must. The chicken curry and meat rolls are suppose to be in as well but we didn't serve it. Too much More About: Food , Fireworks
Prepared for the Ancestors
2008-02-06 05:22:00 These dishes were prepared by mom in law this morning for the annual prayer. Do they look familiar? Yummy! Yummy! Have a prosperous and healthy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi! Gong Xi! Angpow gia lai! :P More yummy stuff tonight - the reunion dinner.......
New Fun Earrings
2008-02-06 05:13:00 These are two pair of fun earrings I managed to whip up in between cleaning the room in preparation for the Chinese New Year. Very simple dyed shells and pearl earrings. More About: Earrings
Three New Bracelets
2008-02-04 16:30:00 I did it! I finally finished these three commissioned pieces last night. Sent them out this morning and I just hope they will reach their destination by Wednesday the latest. The purple themed bracelets is made up of amethyst, swarovski crystal, pearl and glass bead. The red themed bracelet is made up of fire polished beads, blue flash rainbow Moonstone heishi, swarovski crystal, tourmaline, More About: Bracelets
Two New Clasps...
2008-02-03 15:18:00 In between spring cleaning and shopping for the coming Chinese New Year celebration, I managed to get these done over the weekend. Just to clasps? Well they are not totally completed yet but will get it done tonight. They are part of the bracelets in the making. More pix in the coming days. Weekend is not over yet but I need to get these done tonight, else they wouldn't reach the would be owner
Chinese New Year Preparation-Sort of
2008-02-01 15:38:00 Yeh! Weekend is here again and it is going to be a busy weekend. First, Chinese New Year is just around the corner and I shall be on leave beginning Monday. Tomorrow, first thing first, shopping at Beaulevard....oh well not that I have not been looking but I still need to find and buy few more clothes for the new year. Been to the Spring, but didn't see anything I like. Maybe I should just check More About: Chinese New Year , Sort , Preparation
Jewel From the Sea
2008-01-28 16:24:00 No wire jewelry to show for the last few days, I am posting a picture taken of these sea plants, or is it coral? These plants are found in an aquarium at Kuching International Airport - Departure Hall. As I am always in and out of the airport, I might as well take some interesting pictures while I am there. So enjoy this sea plants. Ops! there is also a beautiful blue fish behind there. More About: Jewel
The Princesses Left
2008-01-20 15:41:00 The princesses left for Singapore about two hours ago. They should be in the safe hands of their parents by now. The parents left for Singapore early this morning. These two girls are really brave to be travelling by themselves at this young age. Here are some pictures taken of them with the cousin brothers and grandma. These earrings, pendants and bracelet are pieces of the More About: Left , Princesses
Dangle Earrings
2008-01-19 15:33:00 Today, I made a few wire wrap pieces but only managed to take photos of these two pairs of dangling earrings. The others have already found their new owners. Not to worry, tomorrow I will snap some photos of those pieces with their owners as the models......:D. These two pairs of earrings are quite simple as shown here. You'll need about 2ins of chains, jump rings and a combination of crystals of More About: Earrings , Dangle
Finally Done - Charmed Bracelets
2008-01-18 16:10:00 Finally I got these two charmed bracelets done for the two princesses - Victoria and Elizabeth. They will be leaving soon so thankfully I managed to make something for them. More About: Finally , Bracelets , Charmed
To Be Or Not To Be
2008-01-18 06:35:00 To be or not to be?, that is the question. To what do we owe this dilemma that we face every waking hour, every waking minute of our lives? Some people will say "meddio tutissimus ibis" or "you will go most safely by the middle course". But to some dilemmas there is no such thing as a middle course because they say "you can't have it both ways" or "you can't have the best of both worlds". That is
Done but Not Quite
2008-01-11 16:04:00 Been a bit slow lately and only managed these two wire coil bracelets this afternoon. Well, I can consider them done but I am planning to do some more on them. These are reserved for two princesses who will be coming to Kuching very soon... for holidays of course. Will be posting more soon.
When I am not Busy Twisting Wire
2008-01-09 06:49:00 When I am not creating or busy twisting wire, I will try to check out other jewelry sites on the World Wide Web. You would be surprise to find thousands of them online!! One of the sites I stumbled upon recently is sts jewels. A bit of research shows that sts jewels is a subsidiaries of VGL Group of Companies, a fashion jewelery multinational of Indian origin with operations in more than 12 More About: Wire , Busy
Resconstructed Pendants
2008-01-05 15:45:00 These two pendants, one rutilated donut quartz and one clear quartz have been hanging on my neck for a few months now. Before this evening, they were hanging from two separate chains and these two chains kept getting tangled up. I solved this problem by combining the two pendants into one. The donut wrap on the rutilated quartz is based on a technique used by Iza (ya! Iza again....I am her no. 1
January 1st 2008 - First Project
More articles from this author:2008-01-01 15:29:00 The first day of year 2008 is almost gone but I am still the same old Mei. I didn't go out to celebrate the night before -- am a homebody at heart :D....Anyway, it was raining very heavily here in Kuching when the clock struck 12:00 midnight/morning. However, we can still hear the fireworks from the newly opened Boulevard Shopping Center, which happens to be about 300m from our house.....very More About: Project , January 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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