Oxidized

I realised that black is an important shade in jewellery. Especially the colour tone of the patina that is created during the oxidization process... One word to describe...NICE! In order to enjoy the fun part of oxidizing my jewellery, I have oxidized about 15 jewellery that I have created in just 2 days. Sadly I have to stop now as I kinda get ‘obsessed’ in the process and I just love it...except for the smelly finger part. And an applause for myself...Don’t you think that the new pictures are more professional compared to the old ones?

Sorry guys,

As I have not been updating my blog for about 3 weeks. I have been busy updating my Etsy shop and spending time making These are some of the new stuffs that I have been occupied with. Take a look and you will see how hard working I am...Hahaha....Give me some comments too. Oh yes now I have this promotion and you will get 15% off 1 purchase if you join my facebook fan page. I do not have the chance to list some of these new jewelery, so do let me know if you are interested in any of them. A great deal to consider ya^^

Pictures tell a thousand words

I am very particular in compositions, colours and background when I post my jewellery for photo shooting. I personally think that the way I set up the background and props is critical especially when the items I created are too simply or too bold. The background can tune up the taste of the object, to spice up and create an urge for the viewers and satisfy their eyes’ appetite or just simply turn people off. I always hunt down props to match my compositions until I have too many of them...so I think it is time for me to balance my desires as after all, I am selling jewellery instead of pictures. However, I do enjoy the process but somethimes hate it when the shots are bad. In order to satisfy my mine ego as a so called "artist", I now created a top 3 charts of my favourite shots. Tells me which are your favourite 3 pictures after you have checked up my shop and you will receive a '15% off your purchase voucher' (* excluding shipping fee) to grab something from my shop^^ This entry will end on the 30th of Jan ( just comment in this blog with the 3 listings, give me some reasons why you choose so and twitter me ) Here's mine...






The very first one and my all time favourite is....



No.1 En noir et blanc - sterling silver and swarovski crystal lariat.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31286146




I reallylove the comtemporary design of this lariat. As I said before, I love to play around with differents shades of a colour, adding layers and similar shapes around to make the lariat more unqiue. And, I have recently give this lariat a makeover. I'll try to post it up as soon as possible, so stay tune if you are interested in this.

No. 2 Passion of the nature - magnesite turquoise coins and white howlite stones bracelet http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=31075833
I love the strong and bold design of it even through this may look earthy. But isn't it the characteristic of the power of nature?

No3. The Red flamenco - Mocha and red swarovski crystals and filigree charm earrings

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=35107608

I always have a weakness when things are in white, red, black and grey. These are the colours which I often used in my painting. Probably I'll post some of my favourite paintings out of my treasure box...have to dig out my pictures... I named this pair of earrings after the show "strictly ballroom" A super nice show about ballroom dancing. Especially during the last part when the the mexican gal danced with the man ...sorry I forgot their names... Maybe I'll dig out the show again...

New shots for "love is in the air"

I'm so happy to see the sun was out after the heavy downpour in the morning and the lighting was extremely bad. The weather is a bit cooling now and just right for relaxing. Yeh!! Finally I can get to pamper myself a bit with a 30mins nap but still I must focus not to nap for too long and get my work done for today.

Here is my to do list,


1) Pack my room
2) New shots for some earrings and necklace, Check!
3) Update my Etsy
4) My personal study
5) Enjoy what my dad prepared today...FEAST!


These are the new pics for the earrings> <, nice right.......but I'm not going to upload today as the Etsy is having a traffic jam....headache... always a problem and i hope they really do something about it. So sit back and enjoy as you are the first one to view it ya...hehe...


I always like the way the light glowed at the back, adding some 'Wow' from the other viewer........ It looks so holy, decent and pleasant, really something to showcase your feminie personality. SWEET, SWEET, SWEET!!! The balance was the difficult part during the process of making this earring. As I created them one after another, the number of crystals varied. I have to depend on my eyes to balance the volume of the crystals to create a natural flow of clusters on each side.



I think it is hard to find a correct composition for this kind of earrings, something doesn't seem right. But this pic is one of the best angle Rookie Joy could have. Overall not bad^^ I alway want to invest on a photoshop when I get serious with jewelery making career and there are so many things in my head concerning....well too many for me to list... Not matter what, I still enjoy the process of creating something beautiful but the promoting part is always a headache to me. Never good in it...

This is the pic which I cant get it right but the outcome is still presentable. I do not know the best angle of it and I think also because my existing props are not suitable for the concept. What do you think?