From Sketches to Reality

The wedding jewelry I was working on became a reality this past weekend when the actual wedding happened so now it is safe to post pictures of the jewelry!

Laura & Justin ♥

I made the bridesmaids' jewelry, a set of earrings with a bracelet. If you refer back to this post, you can see the sketches and some of the examples I made for her to choose from.


The original sketches

The bride chose the fifth and last earring selection I made and we made some adjustments from the bracelet/necklace combo. The original was suppose to be a silk wrap that could be worn as a necklace or a triple wrap bracelet. However, as hard as I tried, I couldn't get that idea to work out into something I felt was wedding worthy, even though it was a casual beach wedding. It just didn't have the ooomph I was looking for....

Finally, I decided on doing a triple strand bracelet that would give the same idea and feeling but was strictly a bracelet. I added extra sparkle using faceted swarovski and glass shades of aqua and baby blue.




Congratulations to Laura and Justin! I went to highschool with both of them. I would've never guessed that these two would end up together and so happy! Just goes to show you that the Universe has other plans for us! ♥

In Love

I finished a lovely trio of custom earrings for a customer today. The bride will be wearing the blue studs for her "something blue" and she ordered coordinating chocolate brown studs in a leaf motif for her bridesmaids. I love the chocolate brown.

The blue set in sterling is available in my shop and I also have them in antique brass as well. Sadly, I won't be offering them on a regular basis so snap them up while they're there!

More shameless self promotion....

So sorry it seems all I've been posting about is myself lately....but I do have some lovely features coming up so stay tuned in the next day or so because I've got something super special coming up, that I hope will work into a regular feature.

But until then, here are some new pieces that I've added to the shop. As you can see, I'm much obsessed with my new flannel color this week. I just love the subtle tone it lends and depending on how it is distressed and what beads it is strung with, it looks baby blue, almost gray, or turquoise.

From top to bottom

1) You were born with wings necklace. One of a kind.

2) Nothing is worth more than this day. One of a kind.

3) The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. One of a kind.

4) You were born with wings pendant and bead. Availble now in flannel blue.

All available here.

lucky weekend

having a lovely lucky weekend here. thought i would share some photos. bought this darling dress at Target, wish i looked as cute as the model. it is perfect for the summer heat. light and cool and has pockets! spent the morning at the farmer's market. spent the afternoon packaging some tiny pendant beads for a goody bag promotion at the Handmade Brigade in Leguna Niguel, CA at the end of June.

going to watch bluegrass tonight at the truckstop.

hope you have an equally lucky weekend! xoxo.

so it looks like this...

Just got in all my shipping supplies for the new jewelry line. Thought I would post a little photo of how it looks.

aloha!

busy b.

I've just been bursting at the seams to share some new stuff with you and I think it is finally ready! Jewelry has always been a love of mine and so a couple of months ago, I was inspired to start making jewelry again. In all my work I have a love of printmaking, stamping and embossing and so it once again has carried over into my jewelry work. I'm really excited and I've got alot more coming so stay tuned! This new work is for sale at my new shop called Floridity
I am thinking it deserves its own shop, no?
aloha,
b.