Wednesday, February 29, 2012

New Ring Settings

Happy Leap Day!!! I have re-stocked the shop with new ring settings yet again!!! Take a looksie...









Leap day also signals the end of the month of February! I'm planning to spend part of my day writing up a list of things to accomplish for March. My shop offers a lot of settings for rings, bangles, earrings and pendant blanks...that I'd like to think its becoming a "specialty" so, one of my goals is to offer  an even wider selection. I know some of my settings have become unavailable and I'm looking to have them re-made so that they are more readily available to my customers.

Secondly, I'm hoping to get started on my kits...I plan to work on my basic beading kit. The actual items for the kit are no problems and that's quite easy to get together but, what I really need to start on is the actual tutorial. I need to start on that ASAP!!! Along with the basic beading, I also need to work on my scrabble pendant and domino pendant kits. I'm quite happy that I finally got my resin posted and the natural progression for this are the domino/scrabble kits. 

And last, I need to start posting more stones. I love rocks, stones etc. and I have a nice collection. I'm always having second thoughts of posting them and making them available for sale since I love them..but I think I should stop hoarding and start putting them out there so they can become part of somebody's beautiful creations! So... here's a preview of what's to come...










Oh its so hard to part with my stones...they're all just soo pretty. Well, let's see how it goes....That's all for now!

Monday, February 27, 2012

Focals from Scrap Clay

I've been wanting to try to make beads from my scrap clays ever since I saw Artybecca's tutorial/demonstration on flicker (click here to see it)

I finally got a chance to make a couple of focals...here's the first...







I think I went a little crazy on the highlights with the inka gold...you can't really see the original colors anymore... but I still like it.

I'm selling it as part of a bead soup... You can see it in my ETSY listing here - Pharoah's Gem Mix


Here's the second one I worked on...



This one I have not yet listed but will definitely make it also into a bead soup mix...watch out for it.

That's all for now.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Crackle Bead Cabochons

I'm excited to post these new handmade beads in the shop!!! I got new materials yesterday and immediately started playing with them. Alchohol inks are the best..and mixed in with gold leaf...all i can say is WOW!

So here is the first batch..to be posted in my fb album...
Crackled Earthly Sunset Cabochons...

Here's a peek at the process...



And this is what is wrapped around pieces of scrap clay and turned into different cab shapes. 
They look great put in a setting like this...


Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Resin Test

My stocks of resin are still waiting to be posted. My supplier still hasn't stocked their 20ml bottles so I can't repack the hardening glaze yet...so whilst waiting, I decided to play around with some of my old stock. I poured them into some molds that i had, mixed in some glitters, waited a day and viola...out popped this really pretty cabochons...here's the loot....
They're really hard to photograph..you just can't capture the beauty of the swirls inside the resin...so pretty! I will definitely need to play around with the lighting for this...here are some closups
Blue square cabochons with lots of swirlies...

violet swirls in teardrop shapes... 

These ones I really really love...they look like they have gold speckles inside... 

Pink love!!! 

I do not need polish the front part (where the resin touched the mold) to make them clearer and shinier.. But otherwise, I think they turned out real nice...

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Etsy Shop Reopened..Enamel Charms Stocked

I finally decided to reopen my Earthly Jewels Etsy Shop - here. I started by adding a couple of silicone molds and these really really cute enamel charms...
 It has two hoops as seen in the back...






If you want these just visit the shop..I can also do wholesale orders, in case you wanted to carry them in your shop.

Watch out for more listings as the days come...