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!

Valentino Fall 2012 RTW Part1 (the Collection)

Black is definitely back!  I absolutely LOVE BLACK and Valentino Fall 2012 Ready to Wear has lots of black outfits...Including those Awesome bags!!! Apart from black, there are also a few pieces of whites, reds, pink, neutrals and mixed colors outfits with glittery fabrics, embroideries, leathers ( yes...there's leathers in Valentino now) 

Black indeed is NOT boring at all... with all the details and mixture of embroideries, textures, clever choice of fabric and bead work.  Pairing with the clothing are simple Mary Jane like shoes in different height of heels and the lots of GREAT Bags!!!  It's modern and simple  but Sophisticated and definitely CHIC!  Bravo to  the designers of the collection - Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri

I love almost all of the pieces especially the dresses, which has a hippie feel.   Will be featuring the accessories and bags in my next post but now let's take a look at selections of my  favorite pieces of the collection:

The collection: