Beige Agate Pendant with Gold, gray n clear tones beads Necklace

I am sure every girl has her own collection of pendants.  I have several pieces of various types of semi precious stone pendants that I normally wear with just tying it with a leather cord.
I'm gonna give this beautiful semi transparent beige agate pendant a little twist..

Beads:

Beige agate pendant, Bicone shaped gold, gray and clear tones glass beads,  Gold glass pearls & Rose gold metal tube beads,

Cords:

Tigers tail, gunmetal footage chains.

Findings & Finishing:

Metal findings with lobster clasp

Work in progress:

I started weaving at the center, after attaching the pendant with gunmetal chains then work my way to the sides and finished with fold over crimps.  when the necklace is done, I wrap the pendant with gunmetal chains to add more character to this light color semi transparent semi precious stone.

More details:

Jewelry Fall 2012 - Ben Amun

 Egyptian born Issac Minevitz is founder and designer of an exquisite jewelry brand 

Ben Amun (Named under his eldest son Ben and the king of Egypt.)  His creations are magnificent and has been a top brand in the fashion world since 30 years ago in Manhattan, focusing on the sculptural aspects of design wherein symmetry and proportion are key.  He love to use pewter,  beads, crystals, Czech glass, antique silvers and unusual materials in his designs.

Apart from being a favorite brand by the A list even the famous Jacky Kennedy, 

Ben Amun also loves to collaborate with the top fashion designers like Donna Karen by accessorizing their runway shows.  His jewelry are available in most of the major city in the world, even in Asia.

Here are my selections of the pieces I love of his Fall 2012 creations, and they are mostly bead work

Rhinestones Pendant with silver glass pearls necklace and bracelet (NK,BR023)

I'm sure many of you are like me who has a collection of jewelries that are just sitting in your jewelry box/storage that you have not been using for a while.  Some just ignore them or throw them away during spring cleaning but there are ways to make them modern and wearable again with a little creativity.  For example, gather pieces old earrings parts and attach them onto a plain chain to make a new necklace or bracelets, you can even add on brooches and pendants with ribbons, beads, buttons etc... and transform into a new piece of jewelry.

I have a rhinestone pendant that I think it's way too matronly to be wore by itself but I purchase it because I wanna construct a necklace and place it as the center piece. I used...

Beads

Silver and rhinestone pendant,

silver glass pearls

Cords

Tigers tails, nickel and gunmetal chains

Findings and Finishing

metal findings and finished with metal toggle clasp decorated with gunmetal chain tassels.

Details of Necklace & Bracelet:

Metal Fever - Mixed Charms n chains Necklace n Bracelet (NKBR0020)

I love to play around with different types of material while designing my jewelry... combining various different types, shapes of beads, chains, textures.  Here is a design that I created with mixture of  chains in gunmetal and white, added a few shades of gray faceted glass beads, metal beads and metal charms.

Beads: 
Tones of gray faceted glass and Swarovski crystals shell shaped beads, Metal coins beads and metal charms.
Cords:
  Mixtures of nickel,gunmetal and Swarovski Rhinestone chains.
Findings:
  Metal findings and hardware e.g. toggle clasp, head pins, jump rings etc...

Let's take a look at the details:

Jewelry Fall 2012 Anndra Neen

Mexico born and raised sisters Phoebe and Annette Stephens are the designers of Anndra Neen.  

The theme for their Fall 2012 jewelry collection is "The imperfect geometry of nature".

The pieces are bold and beautiful with hand-forged silver and gold necklaces, bracelets  etc...and even purses.  

Here are my selections of the pieces which caught my eyes... 

JewelryFall 2012 Delfina Delettrez

Jewelry designer Delfina Delettrez designs for modern women with a sense of humor in mind.  Her inspirations includes anatomy, insects, 16th century Italy, the romans and  spookily gothic.

Her Fall 2012 jewelry collection is fun, unique & totally unbelievable!!

Exquisitely mixing marbles, ceramics, precious stones, crystals etc with erotic woods, gold, silvers & other metals and created this unique and artistic collection.  

I love almost all the pieces, especially this pair of earrings & more

Jewelry Fall 2012 - Aurélie Bidermann

I'm featuring  Aurélie Bidermann agian, do you know this  beautiful Parisian - French jewelry designer, begins her career as an art historian in Sotheby's Impressionist and contemporary Art departments?  After attended gemology and art school in Anvers and BJO (professional jewelry making course) in Paris, she traveled  to various countries e.g. India etc gathering her inspirations from different cultures.

 Her poetic creations are a true declaration of peace, love, serenity and fantasy. Her philosophy is to create an "Art of Happiness", as she continually renews her sources of inspiration to produce imaginative, finely-crafted works of art.

I love how she incorporated gems, precious stones and metals into her jewelry designs, they are different but certainly outstanding.  Lets take a look at my most favorite pieces of her Fall 2012 collections.

 Aurélie Bidermann Fall 2012 jewelry collection...

Jewelry Fall 2012 - Akong, Alexander McQueen

This is it!!!  Fall 2012 Jewelry is out and I certainly am posting it in My Beadialogy!

Feauturing 2 unique designer brands here - Akong & Alexander McQueen (of course)

Akong London

Jewelry designer Nicole Akong's work is certainly a breath of fresh air... This designer is multi talented, holds a fine arts degree now with a blooming career as a jewelry designer by day and  a hot DJ by night.. cool.  Her handmade jewelry normally colorful but this fall, it's black and white mostly and... unique.

I have been posting her jewelry creations since over the past couple of years and I love her latest Fall 2012 collections, Let's take a look at the pieces of my most favorite ones.

Multi-strands Layered Necklaces & Earrings

I believe even twins has their own differences and  character...

I have a whole bunch of faceted glass beads and I decided to design 2 almost identical necklaces & earrings sets.  One is Clear & Milky white and the other is clear, light grey, milky white and black.  The only difference is the arrangements of beads and color combination...

Materials for both sets:

Beads:  all faceted in different shapes and sizes faceted glass beads in 6,8,10, 12mm

Cords:  I normally string all my beads using tigers tail, a nylon coated wired cord that really can hold up heavy strands of beads and also nickel metal chains.

Findings and Finishing:  Nickel metal findings, Lobster clasp and another 10cm extension.

both designs are available at 

HAPPY EASTER!

May your Easter fills with love, laughter and happiness,

Have a great Easter Sunday!

Dolce And Gabbana Fall 2012 RTW part3 (Bags and Shoes)

 I love dark Victorian decor, Black outfits with interesting details, lots of chunky jewelries, elaborate fashion accessories, beautiful outstanding shoes and magnificent bags...they are all here in

 Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2012 Ready to Wear runway show.

In my previous posts, 

Part 1, I showed you the collection  &

Part 2, I featured the jewelries, accessories and beauty

now... let's see the Bags and Shoes (excited!!!)

Dolce and Gabbana Fall 2012 RTW Part2 (Jewelry, Accessories and Beauty)

 At Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2012 RTW runway show, super creative duos - Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana are greatly inspired by their Italian roots, culture and religion.  The concept and theme is so obvious as the models gracefully paraded the beautifully decorated runway.

I have showed you selections of my most love pieces in my previous post, now let's take a closer look at the jewelry and fashion accessories of this collection.

Models are all wearing jewels and gold decorated hairbands as tiaras, flower hair pins, chunky earrings and some with gorgeous statement necklaces, gloves, sunglasses and gloves.

Dolce n Gabbana Fall 2012 RTW part1 (the collection)

Italian designers Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana  are really proud of their roots. Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2012 Ready to wear runway showcased religious theme with mixtures of Italian Sicilian culture.  

There are gold ecclesiastical gold tread embroideries, alter  lace, priest caps, choir robes, communion dresses etc...onto soft, sheer, lacy, translucent and heavy velvety and not forgetting textured fabrics.  Gold and Black seems to be the main colors but they are also beautiful floral prints (very D&G), Reds, Black and whites, Whites & Shinny!

I guess they are showing to the world that they are very honored to be an Italian and the devotions of their religion.

So I did a little research too...

a church interior in Italy

Lady Madonna Icon

A festival in Italy celebrating Madonna of the Seven Veils

Traditional Italian Women's costumes

A beautiful young Italian lady in her traditional costume and jewelries

Mr Dolce dressing up the models... before hitting the runway.

Now let's take a look at  selections of my most love pieces of the collection..

Valentino Fall 2012 RTW (Part 3) Beauty, Shoes and Video

The designers of Valentino

Valentino Fall 2012 Ready to Wear is simple, minimalist but interesting if you look at the details. 

According to the designers, the theme for this collection is "Folk, but in a faceted way"
I have featured the collection in Part 1, but 

My eyes are fixed on the bags which I featured in my previous post

Now let's take a look at 

Beauty, Accessories, Shoes and adding on a video of the whole runway show at the end.

Enjoy.

Beauty

Backstage make up and hair 

Valentino Fall 2012 RTW Part2 (Bags)

Black is Back and there's lots of great bags in Valentino Fall 2012 Ready To Wear runway show.  I have featured selections of my most favorite pieces of the collection in Part 1.   So excited to show you the Bags and I love all of those with rocker studs.  Apart from black color, they are also some red and neutrals..very stylish and modern, fit for everyday and every occasions - from basics to evening.  Take a look...

THIS IS SO ADORABLE..

AND THIS AND ALL THE ONES WITH STUDS!!!