Puffy Marquis Champagne Quartz, Tourmaline, 14k goldfilled, handmade, wire wrapped earrings

I fell in love with these gorgeous puffy marquis champagne quartz briolettes when I saw them at the Intergem gemshow. Bought myself the whole strand :-). And this is the first thing I have made with these brios. I have them listed at my Artfire store:

http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=1523378

Amethyst and Moonstone earrings for Monday

OK...these are some of the crappiest pictures I have ever taken. Seriously...I have NO idea why I am unable to take better pictures of these earrings. I promise you, they look much better than this. LOL!! This is the first time I have used chains in my design. I like it. :-). This pair also is for Dawn. She said one should wear Amethyst and Moonstones on Mondays. The Amethyst brios are such a LOVELY color, and really really awesome quality...but does not show in these pictures. The Moonstones are Rainbow Moonstones with an amazing blue flash in them, making them look so divine! You know...it makes one think of the divine spark within each of us. But....it doesn't show in the pictures. In the pictures they look like blah white globs! LOL!! The metal is 14K gold-filled wire. The chain is also 14K gold-filled.

Sapphire earrings for Thursday

This is part of the order for Dawn. I chose multi-shaded Sapphire beads for this project. The metal is 14k Gold-filled wire. The inspiration was "leaves" :-). Dawn said Sapphires are for Thursday.

Blue Goldstone, Kyanite and sterling silver earrings

I had made these sometime back for my daughter. But never got around to taking pictures or blogging about them. The tiny blue beads are Goldstone. And the briolettes are Kyanite. They do look very nice on her :-).

Ruby, Pearls, 14k gold-filled beads, 14k gold filled wire earrings

NOTE: TO SEE ENLARGED VERSIONS, PLEASE CLICK ON THE PICTURES :-)).
 
These earrings are a part of an order by my beautiful friend Dawn. She got earrings made for each day of the week, depending on which gemstone goes with which day of the week. Ruby is for Tuesday, and she wanted earrings made of Ruby, fresh water pearls, and gold. So here is the pair for Tuesday. I really enjoyed myself creating all these earrings!! :-)))  I will keep posting them one by one. Thank you Dawn for trusting me to make so many pieces for you. (((hugs)))

Emerald, freshwater pearls, 14k gold-filled wire, earrings

After a few days of really horrible pain, my doc doubled the pain-killer dose...he explained very nicely too, "Don't be afraid to take more painkillers...this is temporary". I was a little worried about taking more painkillers because it is after all narcotics. But this one sentence from him was a huge relief. Yes, its just temporary, even though I am feeling like this is going on and on and on. It will end.

Yesterday I felt really good, so I made 2 pairs of earrings. The one I am showing here in this post is made of 14k gold-filled wire, emerald beads and briolettes, and fresh water pearls. They are simple to make, but took me a long time to complete. It took me the whole day to make these. I really like them, and my daughter loves them too. I will have to make her one pair like this one.

Sterling silver and Citrine earrings

I found these gorgeous Citrines in my stack from my gemshow loot a few years back, and wondered why I hadn't used them! So out they came from their packets, and I pulled out some sterling silver wires, and set them in these prongs to make these delicate earrings. My handmade earwires have tiny Citrine beads wire wrapped on them.

Stamped and domed personalized earrings

You can place your order here, and let me know the words you want stamped on your copper earrings in the "notes to seller" section.

Copper Earrings: $23 + $4 s&h

You can place your order here, and let me know the words you want stamped on your sterling silver earrings in the "notes to seller" section.

Sterling Silver Earrings: $38 + $4 s&h

My new love -- Copper! I never used to pay much attention to copper, so in love with silver I was. I always used it as practice metal. Sheet or wire. But recently I have been paying attention to copper jewelry made by a few other jewelry artists, and I just loved the look of copper in their work. Today to play more with my new Kismet stamps, and to use my disc cutting tool, I again pulled out a copper sheet....yeah...once more to use as "practice metal". Punched out a few discs, stamped some words on them...then felt like doming them....then felt like making earrings out of them, and I did just that...went ahead and polished them too....and what do you know? I have a new love in my life! COPPER! I just LOVE how pretty its color is. I am in no hurry to antique it. Right now I am in love with its pretty color. It looks pinkish. I could not do justice to it in the photographs, but here they are!

And then I went ahead and made a pair in silver too. However, this is the first time I like my copper ones better than the silver ones.

I stamped these words inspired by a wonderful jewelry artist: Chris Kerr. She often stamps her jewelry with beautiful words. And just by looking at those words in her jewelry I feel really good. So inspired by her work, I stamped words like Love, Faith, Joy, Peace.

These earrings make great personalized gifts because the words you choose are meaningful and special to you or the person these earrings are for.

Bio Lemon drops necklace, earrings

These Bio-Lemon briolettes are simply GORGEOUS! I am unable to photograph them well. But they are really really LOVELY! The colors of those drops is a beautiful golden brown...kind of hard to describe. They are beautifully translucent, with awesome deeper brown line patterns inside. But in the photograph they're looking like dark brown opaque blobs! LOL! I will have to try and photograph them better. The wire is fine silver and sterling silver. The set is embellished with a sprinkle of fresh water pearls. The knot on the top of the pendant is called a "Danish Knot". Love this knot! :-) To see more detail, click on the pictures to see them enlarged.

Swan Earrings - Designed by my daughter

These earrings are designed by my 11 year old daughter. She made the ones on the left, without the pearls. They are made with craft wire. I tried to copy her (in sterling silver and pearls), but the shape of mine didn't turn out as good as hers! Booohoooo!! But I am very very proud of her, that she could come up with some design herself, and made the shape and showed it to me. No help from me till there! I just showed her how to weave. I didn't try to teach her the weaving...I had a migraine...so I told her I'll weave one, you watch, and if you can follow it, do it....or else, I'm sorry, I'm in no mood to teach right now. Well, she saw me do it, and did it exactly like that in the other earring! Did I say I am proud of her? :-) Click on the picture to see it bigger.

Blue Sapphire Earrings

These are made with fine silver wire, sterling silver wire, Sapphire beads and Blue-Grey Quartz briollettes.

Back to simplicity

To buy these, click here.

These are pink blush faux pearls. The earwires and pendant are made of sterling silver wire.

Long Bio Lemon Quartz Earrings

To buy this pair of earrings, please go to my Etsy Store.

These are approximately 2.5" in length from the top of the earwire to the bottom of the gemstone.

These Bio Lemon briolettes are so gorgeous that I didn't have the heart to make more elaborate wire forms around them. They needed FULL attention! These and another bunch of briolettes I bought are just amazing!! And they dangle so sweetly, reflecting light...they look awesome. They are wrapped in sterling silver wire, and hang from hand made sterling silver earwires.

YOJ Week 17: Citrine earrings

These are earrings made with delicious looking Citrine briolettes, small Citrine and Carnelian beads, fine silver, and sterling silver wire.

Jade set

This is a Jade heart pendant, Yellow Turquoise beads and gold-filled wire necklace. I learnt this style of wrapping a heart from Judy of http://stix-n-stones.ca/. This is the second one I made in this style. I like it, but it hasn't yet turned out as lovely as hers does. But I am happy with it.The first one was the coral heart I did below.

I am also happy with how the chain links turned out. And I love the way they sound -- ching ching ching! LOL! Feels great to wear this set. I feel gooooood and quite divinely royal when I wear it!
:-)))))))))))))

And here are the matching earrings....again...feels great to wear them. The beads are Yellow Turquoise.

And then I joined metalsmithing classes at...

... Worcester Craft Center.

I made many more things than I am posting here. I didn't take pictures of all...some got lost :-P and some I gave away.

These earrings are made with Copper and Brass circles that I cut from sheets which I hammered for texture first. It uses the technique of cold connections...rivetting. No soldering used here.

Another set for mum

This was the second set I made. Made of some beads I bought from Michaels and fresh water pearls, gold-filled wire and vermiel spacers.

Progress with wire

I made this set for my mom. This is gold-filled wire and fresh water pearls. My "S" clasp has improved so much :-).

Then came wire

These are my first attempts at wire jewelry. Everything is far less than perfect, but I'm very pleased I made them all myself. Connie Fox has been a huge inspiration.

My first "all home-made components" earrings. My first wrapped beads, and first earwires. The wire is Brass and the beads are Tigers Eye.

My first bead and wire bracelet. Learnt how to make bead links with my practice Brass wire. The beads are Amethyst and Rose Quartz. It also has my first ever swan and hook clasp. My "S" links are pathetic. The swan is not made correctly...but I'm proud of it nevertheless :-).

This is the first all wire bracelet I made. Made with Copper wire. I am proud of each coil link I made ;-). They have been hammered. Divya took this one from me.

The first "S" clasp I ever made. This is made with Copper wire. I have coiled Brass wire around it.