More wire jewelry...

I looove this earring so much that I had to keep them for myself... I made all the curly-cues with my pliers in sterling silver wire and got the bead a long while ago in a little bead shop. They are hand blown beads in blue and green with a thin black line... they remind me of peacocks::

This are little studs tha lie flat on the earlobe...

I like to do simple lines in wire... I love how they can look intrincate and playful or elegant.

This are some of my favorite earrings... so simple, but I like a lot how they look. The beads are resin and I bought them several years ago in Barcelona...

Kind of corkscrew earrings... look great when you are wearing them and I love it when some times people just stare at them trying to figure out how to wear them and put them in and out.

Simple lines...

And more resin beads...

See you soon!
S.

Wrapped in wire... earrings!

It has been a while since I made this... but here are they, I love having pictures of them because I can go back and love them and be happy that my hands can create something pretty.
All the wire is Sterling Silver hand-bended by my with pliers.
...with swarovsky crystals...

 ... with czech crystal...

 ... with handblown glass (bought, not by me), and swarovsky crystals

 ... with some kind of gemstone I got on sale, didn't have a sign and I haven't figured what is it...

 ... with swarovsky drops...

 ... with agate, and silver beads...

See you soon!
S.

Viking knit necklace...

One of my friends at the shop saw a necklace I've made with Viking knit technique and asked that as a Christmas present... so I had an order made.

I'm REALLY pleased on how it came out... Here are some pictures:::

See you soon!
S.

Bits of this and that...

I've been a little all over the place lately... I am still just living, trying to make the most out of my days and just enjoying them and being happy... but my so free life, leisure life, it has become busy and full of things lately!!! which is great and I don't regreat any of it, but it gives me less time to spend in blogland... either reading or writing...

I've been more and more involved with the LYS, and I LOVE it!!!! I'm not "working" there and I'm not official staff, but I spend a lot of time there, helping with different things, giving classes, knitting, crocheting and chatting...
This yarn shop will be moving to another location at the end of July, is just a block away but there's a lot of work to do in the new space and a whole lot to prepare for the actual moving... and I've been helping with that too... it gives me something to do, it allows me to know more about more things and I can be useful to someone.
I love to spend my days there, learning about fibers, different tecniques and medias, diferent yarns and their caracteristics... and all that happens in a store in daily basis...

I've been enjoying this books and magazines...

I just got the Learn Slip Stitch Crochet from Annie's Attic, I have worked with slip stitch before but I've found several interesting things in there, it was on sale when I bought it so a great discovery for $4!. The Interweave Crochet magazine (spring 2011) has several lovely patterns that I am dying to try!
And the Happy Hooker is a book that I've seen for years but just recently picked it up... I think is a must for any crocheter!

This is my reading book on turn... I'm LoVinG it!!!!!!!!!!!

On the Yarny side...... I fixed a crochet blanket for a customer at the yarn store... It was like this and I felt so bad for it!!!!

 It took me a little while because the old yarn was difficult to take out, but I did it and I felt so proud of myself!

I made a shawl/poncho kind of thing for myself.... I used a picture of a shawl from Ravelry for the base, but then I added the mesh ribbon (Swing by Rebecca Pick), that is one of those yarns that you use for a curly scarf.

Anyway, it was fun to make and I can wear it on the side and it looks fun and it's super comfy!

And last, I started to make a top, pattern from Annie's Attic...

I have the back finished and I'm working on the front now... I'm using Cascade Sierra yarn that it's a heavier weight than what the pattern asks for, so I did my numbers and I'm wroking with the small size instructions of the pattern, but it's not really coming out small as it has to be for my side and I'm more Large than small, hehe... but it fits and I'm very pleased with the work so far!

And my last sharing for today is some jewelry... I've been playing with Viking knit.

Don't you love them????

See you soon!!!!
S.

W is for... Wire Jewelry

It has been about a month since I was last here...
I've missed it but somehow, I feel like I hadn't have time for blog land... no, scratch that. I for sure, hadn't have any time for blogland... not for reading, not for writing...

I'm back and hope to be right on track again... this A-Z blogging was a lot harder than I thought and made me lose my writing track.

W is for Wire Jewelry, which I've been doing a lot in the past month... you see, last weekend I had my first show!!
I had a booth at the Luna Festival. Which is an event organized by Women Inspire, and organization that supports and empower women on business and arts.

I don't have pictures of my booth right now... they are on MG camera and I have to unload them to my laptop... but here some of the earrings I had that day!

I displayed some of the jewelry in a manequin... can you tell I was at the yarn shop???

Have to go!
See you soon!
S.

W.O.W ! ! !

I'm Happy and excited!!!

Yesterday was my first "official day of work"...
The owner at the LYS had been asking me for months to show her my jewelry and I hadn't because I couldn't sell it with out the work authorization that just arrived...

So finally I could do it yesterday! and I took all the jewelry I had made over this years in US. I haven't been working constantly and I haven't worked on that in over a year, but I had a good stock to show...

SOOOOO I showed it to her and other ladies and I sold 5 pairs of earrings!!!! I'm excited!
It feels good and right to be able to sell again and make money for something I did.


I'm happy, happy, happy!!! Here are the sold pairs:::

Sterling Silver and chalcedony...

Sterling Silver and red coral...

Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver and ??? I'm not sure about the bead, I think is chalcedony too... but I'll change it for a coral as the customer wanted something more vibrant...

Sterling Silver and onix...

That's all for today!!!! I'm going to the LYS again to have a hooky day!

Enjoy your weekend!!!
See you soon!
S.

Seasonal Jewelry...

I've been thinking and thinking about writing this post almost since we had the first snow!!!
I hadn't had opportunity to photograph my jewelry until now... today we had a bright sunny day and I took advantage and took pictures of all the pieces that I had without picture.

I have some good news!!!! last Monday I received my Work Authorization Card!!! I'm so excited because now I'll be able to give classes (crochet classes at the LYS), or take a job somewhere, and sell my jewelry... and that feels really good.... I haven't done it in soooo long!!!!

So today I spent all afternoon taking pictures and polishing my jewelry to shiny-shine! and adding clasps and hooks wherever needed... and I'll be ready to sell really soon!!!
And with all the picture taking I took some of the pieces that I have kept for myself and took some pictures too... and thus the seasonal jewelry theme....

May I present you::: My Autumn Necklaces:::

This one is made with copper wire coated in colors... it's all made by hand... all the coils and the unions and the chain at the end... and I like it but farther than that, I decided to keep it because it was more of a trial for the design and being copper is really simple to stretch it and it can loose its form really easy and I didn't want to sell something that could go bad easily. As I know that that can happen and I know how to fix it if it does, I can wear it without problems!
Here a close-up of the work... I love the colors, it remainds me of autumn...

The next necklace its also for the fall... I made this one specially for me because I wanted an autumn something... I feel that the shape I gave the wire seems to leaves falling, and then the colors of the cristals are very fall-ish. The wire I used is sterling silver, I think it is 22gauge (not the same gauge used in knitting and crochet though!) The crystals are swarovsky...
And once again, everything is handmade.

Next and last for today, we have the Winter Set... I made and designed this one also for me... not just something I kept. Back in 2007, when I was doing my degree thesis, I was working with a Chemistry Professor. I was assistant in one of his classes about crystalography and solid structure and I was making my thesis work about synthetic rubys... I was mad about crystals and minerals back there... and this professor went on a vacation and I asked him to bring me a present... and he brought me this incredible and amazing rutilated quartz (the big crystal on the necklace).
It remainded me of ice, so I made an icy, sparkling and wintery piece...

Quartz beads with sterling silver wire and handmade"snowflakes"...

I LOOOOVE them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was my seasonal jewelry so far... I hope you liked it... I hadn't talked about jewelry here in a long time... I hope you didn't get bored with all the explanations of what I used and why!!!

I have to go for now!
See you soon!
S.

Weekend of Earrings...

Hi all!!!
How are you? I hope you are great, enjoying the weather and your summer... specially if you are in vacations!
My weekend was very good and very relaxing... I still have a bit of migraine but I hope it'll go away soon! The good thing is that I recovered my natural crafty desire, that had gone with the headache...

And I'm again in an itchy-for-jewelry time... I don't know if that's the way to say it, but what I mean is that I want to make jewelry again... which is very good... I get periods out of any inspiration and I sit there with my supplies and just nothing comes out... but I'm back in it, for now! lets enjoy it!

So here is some of the earrings I made during the weekend...

See you soon!
S.