Handmade: HAIRPIN 2

MATERIALS:

VINTAGE HAIRPIN (COPPER BASE)

ACRYLIC HF RHINESTONES

PRICE:

RM18/PAIR

Handmade: HAIRPIN 1

MATERIALS: 

VINTAGE HAIR PIN (copper base)

SWAROVSKI CRYSTALS HF RHINESTONES

PRICE:

RM20/PAIR

Happy Deepavali!

WISHING MALAYSIANS 

and
  

THE WORLD  

HAPPY DEEPAVALI!!

Handmade Wire Jewelry Earrings : Pearly Dahlia, customised order

swarovski pearls, natural copper Artistic Wire

RM40

(add RM10 for shipping and delivery)

CAMERON HIGHLANDS GETAWAY!

HI everyone!

i am so looking forward to a planned getaway to CAMERON HIGHLANDS!

This time i am planning to stay there for almost a week :))

I plan to laze around at some beautiful garden or Tea plantation *wink wink and do what i love the most and that is wire jewelry craft.

I will be there between the dates 11th and 17th December and if you would like to learn wire jewelry, please contact me and we can arrange one day for a workshop anywhere in cameron highlands :)

for more information please contact me at whimsicalnquirky@gmail.com

:)

M

Handmade Wire Jewelry Bracelet: ATHENA , new workshop project

This is a way overdue project that was meant for end of 2010.

Better late than never, i present to you 

ATHENA,

the viking knit bracelet.

why ATHENA? i think this is the most appropriate name for this bracelet. It looks intricate (and you know a lot of time and effort is put into this) and feminine  and at the same time rustic and masculine.

ATHENA is a greek goddess. 

She is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, strength, strategy, justice, skill, heroic endeavour  and so much more.

Everything that i went thru and needed to do this piece.

Very symbolic to me.

BARE COPPER FINISH

OXIDIZED FINISH

POLISHED OXIDIZED BARE COPPER FINISH

Handmade Wire Jewelry Bracelet: ATHENA , the bead caps story

I am in the mids of making a new tutorial for a new upcoming workshop planned for november. It is about viking knit technique and initially a design that has similarity to a bead cap featured on the magazine step by step wire 2007.

I wouldn't want to do something un-ethical and asked permission by the original artist. 

Sadly i wasn't granted the permission and therefore i have to throw that out of the window.

No worries because I am not for one to think twice about matters like these. I always believe when one door closes another door opens....and it did! 

I stayed up late that night and figured not only one bead cap design but two!

It felt even better when you are teaching something you think  yourself than someone else's.

 I have always felt that way but i know there are some crafters who really want me to help them with the original designer's design. I am sorry folks, I can't.

Remember the ROMANTIC GARDEN PENDANT design?
that is the first bead cap design. I have seen many of you adopting the design into various other ways to showcase it and it looks fabulous. 

So let me share with you another way to adopt the technique.

The second bead cap design is similar but instead of weaving with the tiny beads, i did it without.

so crafters....when you put your thinking cap on....

you will never know what can happen. 

I not only get one but two new ideas for a bead cap!