Showing posts with label spring 2010 fashion trends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring 2010 fashion trends. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 April 2010

Classic Stunning Chic Blues

If you like blue, this necklace set is for you (and blue if my favorite color). This stunning piece is artisan crafted of faceted graduated clear blue Crystals; accenting a Denim Lapis puffy heart pendant that has a slight cream and black grain; then a scattering of sterling silver beads and finished with a single strand of freshwater cultured Pearls. The earrings are leverbacks that have dangle charms in pearls and one of the faceted blue crystals.


Available for purchase with many other trendy and chic designs in our collections.

Sunday, 28 March 2010

Crystal & Stone Bling

Mystical, charming, stylish and a little flirty describe these new creations in crystals and natural stones. A little out-side-the-box for this designer, we paired a lot of faceted charmed crystals with complimenting pendants, stones and metals to give them all different looks for any personality. We’re working on a few more designs in these styles, so keep checking here and the website for their debut!







Mexican Morodo Agate Pendant Faceted Crystals Silver Set








Black Agate Faceted Smoky Clear Crystals Silver Set





Brown Zebra Pendant Faceted Crystals Silver Set


For these and many other natural stone designs are available to purchase on our website.

Monday, 22 March 2010

Jewelry Fashions & Face Shapes

There are several shapes to our faces and we don't always know how to choose the most flattering jewelry to accent or highlight our features. There are four face shapes; round, oval, square, and heart.


Round: A round face shape should wear jewelry that creates a more slimming, lengthening effect. Chose longer or angular beaded necklaces that draw your attention down and lengthwise; some with a pendant will automatically draw the eye downwards. Also, wear long dangle earrings to also elongate your face.


Oval: If you are lucky enough to have an oval shaped face you can wear almost any type of necklace or earring; mostly because your face is a balanced forehead, chin and proportionate features. Some suggestions would be necklaces with long and short strands; unusual, mixed designs in shapes and textures. For earrings, try bold multiple layer dangle earrings.


Square: Someone with a
square or balanced angular face is most flattered by wearing jewelry that adds or softens the curves of the face. Try to balance a strong chin with necklaces that have round edged beads to narrow your face. If your face is more rectangular than square, you might try to shorter necklaces. Wear round dangle or hoop earrings that will fall to your jawline to accent and flatter your face.

Heart: Or if your face is wider at the forehead and narrow at the chin, you have a heart-shaped face. Suggested jewelry for this type would be one that gives the illusion of width to your jawline. Multi-strand necklaces with horizontal lines will balance out the forehead; with longer single necklaces making the face look narrower. To give a softened look and balance out a point chin, try wearing big, bold round beads in a shorter necklace. For earrings wear something that is just long enough to skim the jawline and moves the eye from side to side to create width.

Whatever your faces shape, you'll find the perfect style for accenting your wardrobe and features. Browse our custom design collection of natural stones to find your style.

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Styles of Chain

I’ve been experimenting with different styles using chain; trying to give the necklace designs more dimension and texture. Here are a couple of new styles using just a few stones and mainly chain as the base.







Boro Lampwork Beads Denim Lapis Crystals Set









CA Palm Wood Jasper Ivoryite Crystals Set


These and other custom styles are available for purchase in our collections.

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Single Red Coral

Doing designs in purely one color is often risky; however with the Red Coral design I hit onto something. It was such a hit, that I redesigned the piece and incorporated different chunky coral stones, several types of copper beads and added a bigger Sponge Coral pendant. This piece hit the mark and was sold before it even hit the website!

Coral Lampwork Beads Sponge Coral Pendant Copper Set (SOLD)

For more designs in natural stone and wire, browse our website for available pieces to purchase.

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Don’t Forget the Green

Green jewelry, who knew and it comes in a variety of styles; browse our collections for available styles to purchase.



Lime Green Dichroic Glass Wire Pendant (to the right - SOLD)

Raw Brazilian Agate Slice in Shades of Green (to the left)






Green/Blue Dichroic Glass Swarovski Crystal Sterling Silver Bracelet (to the right)

Green Peridot Chips Blue/Green Turquoise Nuggets Pewter (to the left - SOLD)

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Fun Styling in Southwest

Looks like Turquoise (but it’s not) and is still a natural stone in all Magnesite! I just fell in love with this strand of green Magnesite when I saw it; the raw edges of the disks just give it an all natural fun and stylish Southwestern look. I’ve matched it with teardrop Magnesite (pendant style) that has a really great beige/brown matrix, sliced in a hint of Amber chips and Sterling Silver fancy toggle and beads to match. To complete this set, I did the same Magnesite disks, adding in Amber chips to make large dangle earrings; you could pair this set with just about anything or wear them seperately to accent any outfit!

This and many other unique and unusual designs are available to purchase on our website.

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Naturally Earthy Fossil

More of the great Tucson finds here, a beautiful Moroccan Goniatite in soft shades of green/cream/black wired in non-tarnish silver and accented with carved Jade in natural earthy colors, mixed in some dark green Aragonite for contrast that are in pewter star end-caps.

This and many other Tucson finds are available for purchase on our website.

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Sweetness In Plume Agate Quartz

This is more of a simple, just elegant design for those who are looking for a little less than the bold. A very nice sized Plume Agate pendant in non-tarnish gunmetal wire and accented with faceted Cherry Volcano and Smoky Quartz and a sprinkling of freshwater pearls in a champagne color.

This and many other artisan crafted designs are available for purchase on our website.
Smoky Quartz: Believed by some to lift depression and dispel negative moods.
Pearl: Purity, faith, charity, innocence, integrity, focus, wisdom, spirituality, sincerity, fertility. Agates: Balancing physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual energies; perceptiveness, strength, inspiration, awakening talents.

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Classy Chic Elegance

Classy yet chic in a graceful style; this pieces has a little bit of flair using nuggets of varying colors of Magnesite (might even find a bit of Wild Horse Magnesite mixed in). Beautiful tones in shades of spring and summer that will last wearable into the fall seasons. It is really truly a year-round jewelry piece!


Designed in Magnesite, freshwater Pearl accents, with a hint of faceted Crystals and copper; you can find it with many other custom Artisan crafted designs available on our website.

Saturday, 30 January 2010

Artisan Earring Blues

Expanding the limits into different things this time...…instead of just doing simple dangle, hoop or post style earrings, we’ve designed some different single pairs of earrings in shades of blue!



Southwest Flair in glass lampwork bead as a focal center and accented with copper, pictured to the right.





Another work in Southwest Flair, this one is with 9 different shaped teal/turquoise marbled Zircon beads; all single charmed in a cluster, pictured to the left.





Mystic Artisan in all shades of blue, glass lampwork pillow beads in swirls of blue and white and accented with cool white charmed Swarovski crystals, pictured to the right.


Browse our collections for custom designed stone and wire jewelry!

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

A Little Southwest Sassy

This sassy little number is classic Southwest style; custom handcrafted using Turquoise square nuggets end capped with twisted pewter, Coral in both tube and flat rondelle shapes and accented with just a hint of Ivoryite. The piece was just a little short, so as something a little different; I added 2” extenders to both sides, making this necklace wearable at either a short or medium length.

Check it out for purchase along with a few others in our Southwest Flair collection!