My latest creation

Over the last few weeks, I have felt a little uninspired and not even a little bit creative.  It was terrible.  I was starting to feel that my creativity had dried up which is not a good thing for someone that makes jewelry and relies on creativity to inspire designs.  That is why I was so relieved when last night at last I once again had some new ideas popping into my head.  Thank God! 

In my boxes of beads, I discovered this brown glass bead with varying levels of color throughout the bead.  It is beautiful.  I had forgotten about it because I had gotten it right before I had gone away on vacation.  As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to create something with it.  That something ended up being 2 pairs of sterling silver earrings.  I am so pleased with them, I am tempted to keep them for myself.  : )  I used the brown bead as a focal point in both pieces and accented it with gold bicones, Swarovski crystals in smoked topaz and golden shadow and also bronze Swarovski pearls. 

Here are the designs, let me know what you think:

Holiday earrings....

So, as promised, here are the earrings that I have been working on for my order to the Historic Hudson Valley.  I sent the package today!  Yippee.  I can not wait to see them in store!  Let me know what you think.  Would you wear these holiday inspired pieces? 

Santa hats

Christmas trees

Snowmen

Pumpkins

Witch hats

Candy Corn

Missing in action....

So, I just wanted to post an apology to everyone following my blog for being missing in action the last few weeks.  I have been on vacation and also working on my holiday order for the Historic Hudson Valley musuem store at Washington Irving's Sunnyside in Tarrytown, NY (http://www.hudsonvalley.org/content/view/13/43/).  They host some pretty amazing events at Halloween which are a must see and my earrings are going to be a part of that.  They ordered 72 holiday earrings from me for both Christmas and Halloween.  I am really excited about this.  As soon the order is complete, I will get pictures up on here to share with you all. 

Here is a few pictures from my holiday line that will not be seen in store to hold you over. 

More to follow....Thanks for being patient!!

Birthstones

Birthstones....they are the perfect way to make any gift that much more special, especially in jewelry.  A few weeks back, I was asked to design a bracelet for my step-mom's niece using her birthstone.  She wanted to give it as a gift for her birthday coming up in July.  She had seen another red bracelt I had done using a sterling silver heart and was hoping I could do something similar.  Not wanting to do the exact same thing, I decided to use ruby Swarovski hearts and I couldn't have been more pleased with the result.

Take a look and let me know what you think. What is your birthstone?  Do you love it or hate it?  Would you wear a design that uses your birthstone?  Let me know.