Earth Tones Glass Pearls with Gunmetal Chains Necklace (NK021)

As much as I love to use crystals, glass beads and semi precious stones in my jewelry,  I now started to appreciate pearls... no matter it's cultured pearls, shell pearls, mother of pearls etc..., it has a special glossy coating that no other beads has... Elegant and unique.

Always trying to modernize pearls so that it doesn't have that matronly feel... This time, I selected earth tones glass pearls and paired with  rose gold metal tubes, gunmetal & black footage chains to assembly this what I called an unsymmetrical necklace.

Beads: 
Round Glass Pearls in champagne, dark brown & bronze color,
Rose Gold metal tubes
Cords:
Black & Gunmetal oval footage chains.
Findings:
  Metal findings and hardware e.g. head pins, bead caps, lobster clasp, jump rings etc...

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Mother of Pearl Flower Pendants Necklace, Bracelet & Earrings (NK,ER, BR027)

Mother of Pearls are from sea shells, there are many shapes, colors, textures and tones with a pearl glow that makes it unique.

There's a pile of Ivory color Mother of Pearl flower pendant sitting in the storage box, it's time to make them useful...

Pairing with some metal charms and connectors, I've created a 4 layers dangling necklace and a pair of matching earrings.

Beads: 
Mother of Pearl flower pendants,
5 petal white flower with rhinestone metal charms,
Leaf shapes metal charms &
Dragonfly metal charmss

Cords:
 Gunmetal curb footage chains.
Findings:
  Metal findings and hardware e.g. toggle clasp, connectors, jump rings etc...

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Ruby Crystals with Metal Dragonfly Charms & Chains Necklace (NK019)

Here are some beautiful Ruby Crystal beads in faceted coin shapes... 

paired with all white metal charms,chains and findings so that the ruby crystal beads can be the center of attraction of this necklace.

Beads: 
50mm faceted coin shaped Ruby crystal beads
6mm faceted peach pink glass beads and 
dragonfly metal charms.
Cords:
  Mixtures of different nickel chains.
Findings:
  Metal findings and hardware e.g. toggle clasp, head pins, jump rings etc...

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Jewelry Fall 2012 Bottega Venetta

Bottega Veneta is one of the leading luxury fashion brand in the world, famous of  it's  signature leather weaving technique in their leather goods... nowadays their fashion and jewelry lines had also made headlines with their unique designs and craftsmanship.

For their Fall 2012 RTW collection, some beautiful jewelries caught my eyes and here they are:

Jewelry Fall 2012 Mawi

Mawi's jewelry is not a stranger to this blog and I am her No.1 fan...
Her designs are bold, fierce, luxury and unique!

(click to view my previous post of Mawi's Fall 2011 collection)

 Mawi Jewelry Fall 2012 collection, there are mixtures of costume pearls, gems, cone studs, metal tubes and some sculpted pieces etc... can't explain fully in words why I love them so much, just take a look...

Necklaces...

Glass Pearls with Gunmetal Chains Necklace & Earrings (NK,ER015)

Pearls are elegant and classy, but sometimes they may made us appear matronly if we style or wear them with a wrong outfit or choices a certain  design of the pearl jewelry.  There are many different types of pearls regardless of their value e.g.  plastic pearls, glass pearls, cultured pearls, mother of pearls, shell pearls etc... which may comes in different shapes and sizes.  It has a unique shine that is totally different from any other surface...As my favorite fashion icon Coco Chanel loved to match her outfits with pearls jewelry and accessories.

I always love to use pearls in my jewelry designs, mix and match them with "rougher" looking beads or other material to modernize them.  Here I like share this set of fashion jewelry that I handmade using rounded glass pearls with gunmetal chains and findings:

Beads:

Off White Glass Pearls in (4,6,8,10 & 12mm)

Cords:

Gunmetal footage chains in 2 different sizes

Findings and Finishing:

Gunmetal findings and finished with gunmetal lobster clasp.

Work in Progress:

With pin technique, I arranged glass pearls randomly, mixing different sizes together.

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