Who would have thought that I could manage 5 pieces in a day? I really must have been in the zone today. Mostly they were revisiting old designs for custom requests, but I did manage a new ring as well. The design needs some tweaking, so I am pleased it was just done in artistic wire. Having said that, different gauges and some half round would have been very handy to making it a sleeker piece. Maybe I need to get a broader range of artistic wire, not just 28 and 18 gauge.
The 'turquoise' triangle is an old design of mine the customer liked, but really wanted this colour. It took a while to find, but the look of it with the non-tarnish silver is summery - perfect for us in the Southern hemisphere as the days are stretching toward Summer
Beautiful creations!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! But come back! We want to see more! :-))
ReplyDeleteOMG I love all of your handcrafted accessories, jewelry, ect. And would be so happy if you'd tak part in my blog! Hello, (Sorry it's so long I just wanted to give you all of the details!!)I have a blog on Google blog Spot with many followers, from all over the
ReplyDeleteglobe that follow my blog! You can find Simply Stargazers on: Google, Polyvore, Twitter, Pintrest,Facebook, ect. I'm adding a new craft section to the blog in January, 2013 (the beginning of the year! This section will revolve around anything, and everything that has to do with handcrafting. Such as Handmade jewelry, New scrapbook page ideas, Any handmade accessories like cute crocheted hats, scarves, and gloves. Hair and clothing accessories, Quilting, Floral design, Handbags, and much, much more!! For the month of December,
I'm going to have a Tutorial contest, I'll explain. I have spent the past week looking for the perfect blogs, that have tutorials. I plan to post 3 tutorials, to put in the 4 different blogs. I plan to do 1 blog a week.I will give the members a choice to pick one of the 3 tutorials, and create the item in the tutorial they picked. I also told them to add some of themselves into the pieces, as well as making the presentation of the items in the pictures. I of course will make as many of the 12 pieces as I can. Anyway the winners will be picked by votes from the followers, don't worry I installed a program that doesn't allow them to vote for their own pictures I made it imp.for
them to cheat. Now each photo sent in from the followers, will be posted in a new blog post called:"The Tutorial Challenge!" Then the blog focus (you) to pick the winner there will be a points method.(1 thru 10) Obviously 1 for the worst, and 10 for the best! Just score the pictures on:
*How well the contestant followed the directions in the tutorial?
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Any Comments?
*The choice of color and fabric used?
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Any Comments?
*The added extras to make the piece more their style, and how well they pulled off that challenge w/out
making it look gaudy, or to plain?
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Any Comments?
*The photo presentation of the finished piece. Was it beautiful, and creative, or to plain?
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Any Comments?
*Finally the over all look of the finished piece.
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*An last but not least what finished piece out of the 3 is your favorite??
Only if you feel like it, leave short comments on each one! Anyway I'll add up the scores, and the highest ones, along with 1 point per vote by followers! Then the top entrants will win. I say it that way because you have to pick the amount of winners (1-5). You also decide what to give to what place winner! This blog as I
said, will get you more traffic on your blog, and some fabulous advertising, and that's a serious plus! Then after the winners get their prizes I have them send me feedback on that item, along with a presentation photo of their prize. So your blog, and (or) items will be featured in 3 blogs. I really hope to hear back from you. Now I've had 4 or 5 people tell me that if I wrote up a blog for them, then they would send prizes out to the random comments on their blog. Well needless to say they used me for free advertising, in a very dishonest way. I was so angry, and it wasn't because I put the blog together, it was the fact that they let my
followers down, and I take my blog very seriously. So I decided I would never let that happen again, so now I ask all of my blog focuses to mail the prizes to my office, and I'll send them out to the winners. I need the prizes at least 1 week, to 3 days, before the blog is set to be published! So, if you have any questions feel free to email me at: SimplyStargazers@gmail.com. An here's the link to the blog,check it out: http://fan-freekin-tastic-fasionista-stars.blogspot.com
Please get back to me either way!,
Thanks Dana