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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Dark red Swarovski Rivoli earrings

Yesterday I added here a photo about starting with dark red Rivoli earrings. Today it was a nice shiny weather and I managed to make some better photos. These are technically the same as turquise Rivoli earrings.

 Only backside of the Rivoli is not coveres with beads.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Stars of the Twilight

Yesterday and today I continued  making Rivoli earrings and ended up with two new pears.
 
At first I will show you the purple ones. When I look at my Etsy shop then many of the products are in different shades of purple and when I think about purchasing beads then I often end up with purple ones ...

But about the earrings ... in the center I used 14 mm crystal AB Rivoli, which shine very nicely in different colors. I surrounded it with laverner opaque superduo beads and different shades and sizes of Toho seed beads. I used sizes 8/0, 11/0 and 15/0. At first I thought to leave enterior round of superduos separately as rays. But then I got the idea to make the earrings look like little stars. So I ended up with these star earrings.
Backside is parlty covered with beads. But I thought that the silver surfice of the backside of Rivoli is beautyful itself and suits very well with purple tones.
Usually I don´t  give names to my jewelry, but these seem to have enough caracter to have a name. and when I look at those different shades of purple I start thinking about something dark (in good meaning) and hazy. So I thought that the most suitable name for those sparkling, but the same time a bit hazy earrings will be Stars of the Twilight.
 
As I wrote in the beginning I ended up with two pears of earrings. The other pear is with very glistering wine red seed beads and also 14 mm Rivoli (fuchsia). But I didn´t managed to make good pictures about finished earrings. So I will show you today only one picture about the process and try to catch better photos tomorrow.  
 

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Turquise Rivoli earrings

Couple a days ago I made a pair of Swarovski Rivoli earrings. These sparkling earrings remember a little flower to me. I used 14 mm Rivoli (tone light turquise) and 11/0 and 15/0 Matsuno seed beads. I used peyote stitch to make the bezel and herringbone stitch to surround it. The backside is covered with beads.
The hooks are 925 sterling silver.


These earrings are avaylable in my Etsy store.

Monday, October 28, 2013

New beginning

Making jewelry has been my passion for last five years. It started when I was at home with my older child. Now I can´t imabine my life without making any kind of jewelry. So I decided to start with new blog, where I show olny my creation related to jewelry making. All other crafts and experimenting will stay in my old blog.

I started my jewelry creation with simple wire wrapped earrings. You can see these in my other blog. For now I have moved to bead weaving and bead embroidered jewelry.

I try to post here pictures about my jewelry making process. And about finished ones as well:)

For start I add here bead woven butterfly pendant which I made several years ago, but this is still one of my favorites. I used Miyuki Delicas size 11/0 and peyote stitch to create this.



 
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