Simply Shiny Life

Oooo… pink and LOTS of it. This special pair of earrings is going to a fellow Starving Artist as part of our earring swap. (See the link to the Starving Artist’s Forum in the left navigation below…)

Composed of lots of sterling silver wire, pink tourmaline rondelles, and some really glorious multi shade pink, purple and blue boro beads from FireLily. The pictures just don’t do them justice. 

Sure hope my earring swap buddy likes them…..

Here are the sterling silver wire wrapped hoop earrings to coordinate with the bracelet pictured below.

These dangly hoops are slightly more than an inch in diameter and wrapped with many feet of sterling silver wire. A red coral rondelle, also snugly wrapped, dangles from each hoop. I oxydized the whole earring for depth, and then shined the surfaces.

 Friendly indeed.

I’ve been wanting to mix copper and sterling silver in an industrial feel bangle for a while, but just couldn’t find exactly the right partner. Then these fantastically HUGE coral rondelles made their entrance as the perfect mixed metal cohort.

This bangle is made of yards of sterling silver wire, copper wire, copper tubing, sterling silver round beads, mykonos silver metalicized donuts and red coral rondelles. They all sit happily on a large sterling base, closed by a swirled sterling silver clasp.  It would best fit someone with a wrist of 6 to 6 1/2 inches in diameter.

Mookaite is a really lovely stone that comes in all sorts of lovely shades. I chose several shapes and sizes in varying colors of red and golden yellow to make this necklace.

The diamond shaped pendant is wrapped in yards of sterling silver wire, and then each stone is carefully attached with sterling wire to the frame and each other.

Another long necklace from me. The chain is about 19 inches, not including the beaded pendant, which adds about another 2 inches to the total length.

The color palette on this one reminds me of a late summer sunset.

Available for sale here and here

When I was a child, my mother always kept dozens of african violets on an antique plant stand near our front door. They cheerfully greeted the sun and any visitors to our house. I had lots of ideas for Earth Day, but somehow I couldn’t get my Mother’s violets far from my thoughts. Unfortunately, I didn’t inherit my Mother’s green thumb. And earthy has never been a title bestown on me. Here’s to hoping my ode to some happy violet memories will elicit a smile and your own happy memories this earth day. And maybe, if I’m lucky, the green thumb gene that skipped me will land squarely on my son.

I really like how these shiny dangly earrings turned out. These artisan wire wrapped earrings owe their purple and green colors to some fantastic iolite and prehnite briolettes, as well as some green shaded tourmaline. All are wrapped up in many many feet of sterling silver wire.

Each earring measures about 2 inches (5 1/2 cm) long, not including the hand made sterling silver ear wire.

In honor of earth day, they are listed in the Wire Artisans Guild Team shop on etsy

I think I’ve found my path..at least my jewelry path.  As I’ve mentioned previously, I’ve stopped making items to sell. I’ve returned to only creating things that make me happy. 

Last night I moved quite a few items from ShinyAdornments into my ShinySupplies shop. This will be a good final resting point for both destash supplies as well as an outlet for designs that don’t sell or pieces that don’t really fit into my new theme.

My ShinyAdornments shop will feature mostly one of a kind creations. More wirewrapped than not, but as with any personal endeavor, I reserve the right to create with whatever materials that inspire. It’s liberating, really.

I sat down last weekend and when the dust cleared, had completed a new wrapped necklace and a pair of earrings. I had also started a new bracelet that I finished last night. I’m quite enamored of this earring style, which I hope to have posted this week. I have some gorgeous HUGE peacock pearls calling to me and think they will work quite well with this wire wrapped shape.

Creating jewelry began for me as an outlet for work stress. While I enjoy aspects of the ‘business’ side, I don’t want to lose touch with why I began in the first place. Sometimes the marketing, selling, etc, etc, etc takes over a larger portion of my time than that at my bench.

 Its a journey, right?  And this is my current path.

Look, two treasuries tonight! Woot!

Muchos gracia to JewelryCreations and JealousyDesigns from the JET Etsy Street Team.

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It’s a Clear Out Sale
ALMOST EVERYTHING MUST GO!!
I’m heading a different direction with my shop, and need to clear out the old stock!!

Buy one ring or pair of earrings or bracelet or necklace listed in my
‘BUY ONE GET ONE FREE’
section and get one the same or lesser value FREE.
Note: Theme challenge and custom items not included in this blow out sale.
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Here’s a link to my Buy One Get One FREE Section
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5295255§ion_id=5384308
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JUST FOR SNS
if you buy *ANY* THREE (3) items, I’ll ship them all for free!
Please put SNS-BOGO in your notes to seller and WAIT FOR THE REVISED INVOICE.
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Thanks so much for visiting my shop!
http://shinyadornments.etsy.com

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As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m part of a wire wrapping jewelry artisan’s group on etsy. The other members of this group are unbelievable talented, and I thought I’d post a couple pics that really wow’d me.

So far, I’ve been impressed by the amount of involvement by its members and the amount of passion I’ve seen so far for furthering the Guild charter and its member’s work. I’ve been looking to join a smaller, more structured team for a while, and this looks like a good fit. Plus, the members seem to be funny, irreverent, and wowzer, did I say talented? A good group to ask my million technique questions and, via osmosis, glean some skills and knowledge.

Here’s another link to the blog : http://www.thewireartisansguild.blogspot.com

BUY ONE GET ONE FREE FOR ALL MY EARRINGS AND RINGS (except Custom) !! I’ll send a corrected invoice once you check out. So DON’T PAY right away. To receive the discount you MUST put BOGO in the notes to seller in my etsy outlet shop when you check out. PLUS, IF YOU PURCHASE ANY 3 ITEMS IN MY SHOP, you’ll get free shipping too. What a deal! PUT BOGO FREE SHIP in notes to seller.

Lots more styles available in my ShinyAdornments Outlet Shop