More Flowers, But Not Wired

Now I really own a flower shop .

This 'huge' hat flower (or brooch) is made from silk, cotton and linen petals. In the center there are several fresh water pearl. Of course I didn't made the hat and it is not for sell : )

This lovely brooch is made from silk, linen, lace, glass pearl, secured with a metal pin. I love the color combination of ivory and rose pink. This one is made from silk, mohair and pink fresh water pearl. The mohair petals are so puffy, lovely!

Narrow and long ruffle scarf. Made from pink cotton yarn. The ruffle on the neck is pretty.

I am so happy that I found the beautiful blue rose pattern lace. I added light grey linen lace around it. Super soft and smooth. I love the feeling wearing it. I don't know how to name the color of this poncho. Maybe lavender ? The lovely puffy yarn is from Italy. It is perfect to be worn above a one-piece.

No scarf sold out until now. But I sold several these pretty sun gloves : )

Cherry Blossom - Sakura necklace

Recently overwhelmed by making scarfs, but still I managed to create something for the season of sakura.
Pink tourmaline, green amethyst, green mystic quartz and phrenite in oxidized silver.


This is a custom order. Shaded green tourmaline, pink tourmaline and love smooth rose quartz .This design is one of my favourite. I am planning to make more in different colors once I have free time. This one is in aquamarine, blue chalcedony, sky blue topaz and royal blue kyanite.

New store opened

...............finally.

I already listed two items in my new store. Here are they:

This is with lovely color, puffy and very very soft. I can't stop touching it. It seems not the right item for current season, but it doesn't matter, I love it : )

I absolutely love this design. It can be worn in many different ways. Two ends of the scarf are connected by a crocheted flower pin. It is made from linen, cotton and man-made silk, perfect for spring and summer.

Here are some more to list :

New Line - Scarf Brooch Hair Pin Bag Gloves

I am working on my new line recently. Bought yarn, books, tools. Until now there is no one completed project, but several half completed :)

Here are some of my yarn for summer:

Half completed project:

Almost completed scarf:

I couldn't complete them because I didn't buy enough yarn. I had no idea what to create when I did my shopping. So I purchased only one or two balls for each color. Will go shopping again tomorrow and complete them totally. I am also planning to crochet following patterns from the book I ordered.... A lot of work to do recently.

My new line will include scarf, brooch, hairpin, bag, gloves and some other small items. Sounds that I don't have time for jewelry anymore : )

April Theme Challenge - Kaleidoscope

I can't remember when I made the piece Kaleidoscope, but it was sold last September, the first piece I sold in my new shop opened on Etsy. This month I was asked to re-make this piece again by a lovely customer.

The original one:

The re-made one :

Inspired by Magdalena's Spring Vine Pendant. The center stone is a gorgeous concave cut shaded green fluorite briolette, surrounded by wrapped vine and watermelon tourmaline smooth rondelles. Outside wrapped with faceted garnet rondelles. Cluster above include rubellite, pink tourmaline, red garnet, kyanite, amethyst, iolite.

Yuki Cuff & Aohana Cuff

I was thinking the wrapped curves look good only in oxidized silver. But this cuff told me that I was wrong. It is so pure so gorgeous that I just couldn't put it into silver black. So I kept it this way.

What a pity that those pictures don't justify the beautiful shinning silver.
Here is the decorated one, again the pictures are not good. The cuff itself is much more gorgeous.

Black Roses

I love this necklace, super cool!

This amazed me!!!

The one on the neck must be necklace. The one on the hair???? I really don't know how to call it. This is so beautiful. I found those pictures on one of the biggest Chinese blog sites: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_3df758100100cifq.html

It seems these are some advertisement. I've no idea what kind of advertisement though. The author said that the hair decoration is nearly 5 kg.............Wow!

Custom Cuff

Custom orders and theme challenge are two most important ways for me to create new designs. I am grateful to those creative customers and fellow artists. This cuff is ordered by a special customer - a 1" wide cuff with ruby red, red, and purple, decorated with flowers.

Different from previous designs, the edge of this cuff is totally wrapped with curves. Both ends are also decorated with many curves. The gemstone flowers and waved flowers are arranged in wave shape.

This time I also gave up the button type clasp. Instead I use hook wrapped with heavy gauge wire to be consistent with the curves on the cuff.

Seeking Inspiration from Root (1) Miao's costume

Wire artisan guild's theme "Ming Dynasty" reminds me that I've forgotten abundant source of inspiration from my own culture. We have 56 minorities, each with her own unique folk-custom and costume.

"Miao" is one minority from south China which is famous with silver jewelry. Within Miao minority, the styles of clothing and jewelry differ from region to region.

This is the most common one. Girls wear this kind of costume to celebrate their festival.

The following "horn" shape silver decorations are from another Miao region.

For the first time I saw this type "ball" shape hat with a Phoenix on the top. believe that those silver hats are very very heavy and not comfortable to wear. However, in Miao's custom, heavy silver jewelry represent status.

For hair:

On the clothes:

For hands:

It is said Miao has more than 200 kinds of different costume. I just can not list more in one article.