a few pretty things: handmade jewelry

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5 Jun 2013

What I made yesterday

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Yesterday I felt like making something. Something easy and relaxing while watching tv. And I made this stack of beaded bracelets. Nothing sophisticated, the simplest of bracelets one can make. They become special though when they are combined all together. I used lava beads, crystal beads, dyed coral beads and greek ceramic beads and paid some extra attention to the color combination.

Tip: Combine something shiny and glittery with mat, earthy materials in order to make the combination stand out.

23 Apr 2013

Cool handmade jewelry

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Hello everyone, as you know I love jewelry, not so much the trendy kind (not that I don't enjoy wearing that too) but unique, imaginative, original, handmade pieces. Here's what I discovered lately:

Monday Moodboard #4

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A few beautiful creations by European artists for the begining of the week. I hope it will be good for all of you!

The Black Factory

French Felt

Pergamondo

LAccentNou

Monday Moodboard is a mosaic featuring items made by Etsy sellers, members of the European Street Team. You can enjoy more of them on Star of the East.

1 Feb 2013

Make a bracelet with vintage buttons

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With the moving and all the home decor projects it has been a long time since I made any kind of jewelry and I missed it. Today I am going to show how to use a few buttons that are worth showing off to make a bracelet.

Here are the things you will need:

Handmade jewelry around the web

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With all the crafting and the decorating for the holiday season, it has been a long time since I played one of my favorite games, searching for beautiful handmade jewelry around the web and I missed it.

Enjoy!

The finely handcrafted jewelry of Angela Gerhard

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Do you feel like looking at some beautiful handcrafted jewelry today? I always do!
I found by chance the website of American jewelry artist Angela Gerhard, and her colorful, vibrant jewelry. I can't resist to beautiful colors so I share them with you. I read in her "about" page that her work is created through the fusing of vitreous enamel directly onto metal, either with a torch or in a furnace, at temperatures up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit and that various metalworking techniques - both ancient and modern - are incorporated to create the base forms to which the vibrant glass color is fused.

Angela Gerhard has also an Etsy shop.

8 Jan 2011

Happy New Year and a giveaway

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Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great time during the holiday season. May 2011 bring you good health, joy and creativity! Especially to us Greeks I wish that this year will prove better than the signs show and that we will manage to keep our optimism and courage in the middle of all that's happening.

What would you say about beginning the new year with a new necklace around your neck? Follow all the steps on Heavenly Savings and win this beautiful Coup de Coeur necklace in three color options.

Good luck!

7 Jul 2010

Brooches

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I saw these gorgeous brooches in Daily Art Muse and want to share them with you. Linnie Mclarty, the designer, has a background in fine arts and draws inspiration from aquatic life, fossils and plants.

These brooches are pinless, the fabric is squeezed through the central hole. There is a range of different sizes, with the "bigger pleasures" series being quite large to be worn by the bold ones but all of them are very special pieces of jewelry, don't you think?

16 Mar 2010

Bicycles

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I 've been keeping my old rusty bicycle in the back balcony for more than two years, since the day I decided that I wouldn't use it any more, at least as a bicycle. All that time of course I was trying to come up with a way to upcycle - reuse it, partly or as a whole. Searching the web, I stumbled upon some projects concerning mainly the wheels, but I thought nothing matched my space. And then, when things showed the moment came for me and my bicycle to be separated for ever, as I intended to give it away to be recycled as metal, I came up with the idea: to paint it one color from top to bottom. In fact I copied the idea from a magazine, I don't remember now if it was a fashion or an interior design magazine, there were some totally one color painted bicycles as a background in some pictures. It only took one and a half can of green spray paint.

I think it made a very interesting addition to my otherwise neglected, not so green balcony. And since I don't have much of a view I prefer to look at my green bicycle. At least it brings to mind some joyful, relaxed moments.

It seems that a bicycle can be very pretty inside the house too, like in this New York apartment.

via Apartment Therapy

a bicycle wheel can be turned into a pot rack

via Apartment Therapy

or a clock

via Cool Buzz

or even a pendant light

via designspotter

the inner tube can become cool jewelry

via try handmade

bicycle freewheels and cogs can be upcycled into tea light holders

at Elsewares

and bicycle wheels can stand for feet to make a very special table -my favorite!

via Dude Craft

11 Feb 2010

Simply gorgeous jewelry

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This blog has been very lazy lately (it had its reasons) but hopefully this is about to change.

And you know what? After all this time I feel like taking a look at really beautiful, inspired, unique, well designed jewelry of great craftmanship, that will make me feel jealous as a crafter and as a woman. Here some that caught my eye. Don't forget to click on the artists' names to see more of their work.

Brooches made of silver, acrylic, stainless steel by Chris Irick

polymer clay necklace by gRIS bLEU

rings by Ronna Sarvas Weltman

anodized aluminium bracelets by Jane Adam,
I think they are my favorites in this list

Marina Massone's pleated metal necklace

Yoko Izawa's veiled rings

jewelry made of lenses by Jiro Kamata

polymer clay brooch by Louise Fischer Cozzi

gold, pearl and velvet set of jewelry by Katerina Ioannidis

gold and silver earrings by Sydney Lynch

Liked them? I believe you did.

Before closing this post I'd like to thank Eve, Christiana and Xenia for giving my blog the sunshine award.

I know the rule is to pass the award to 12 other blogs but I 'm afraid I'll let you do the job. Pick your favorite blog from my blogroll or the list of the blogs I follow. They are all pretty, interesting, inspired blogs and really deserve it.