tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26788102147689896442011-11-06T18:24:50.952-08:00Welcome to my studio blog and the world of swirly, intricate designs. Here I will write about new designs, and share tips and ideas about jewelry making.Susanna Segerholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106547313468211551noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678810214768989644.post-74254093682402353122010-09-05T02:20:00.001-07:002010-09-05T02:20:55.236-07:00

RECYCLED SPOON ringOriginally uploaded by SuzyQJewelryThis is what I´m up to now. I´m giving silversmithing a serious try and attend classes three days a weed since August. Since then I´ve been slaughtering the silver teaspoons I got from my grandmother 20 years ago, never used.This is an adjustable ring with a nice beautiful pattern. The spoon blade will come soon....I sell my new jewelry here:

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Pink extravaganza made for the coming spring. I will celebrate the return of the sun and the meltdown of all snow. Cocktails, sweets and a pink dress will go fine with these earrings, don´t you think?They are quite dainty even though they are long. Not even an inch wide. But they are long so you will still make a statement wearing these.More pictures in my shop.

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I have released a new tutorial in my Etsy shop. This time it´s a tutorial for my top selling earrings "Taj Mahal". You will find the tutorial here...It´s a lovely design, which easily can be turned into a pendant. Only make them with 16 or 14 gauge wire instead of 18.

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Attention Etsy sellers! Lovely Craftopolis now offers an easy way to keep track of the Etsy treasuries you are featured in. Just type your Etsy username and voilá - you can see the treasuries you are featured in. This also includes the Treasury West.You can also see who hearts your shop and items and features in Etsy gift guides.

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New pair of my top seller - Taj mahal earrings - listed in my Etsy shop. This version has 14k goldfilled and freshwater pearls. I´m also going to post a tutorial for these earrings any day.

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I´ve been spending my weekend struggling with my torch. Here´s some of the result. Some of it I won´t show :) I´m proud of the sterling guitar pick for my nephew who´s in a band. The jasper pendant.... hm....I´ll keep out of all close ups. Soldering the bezel to the backplate wasn´t totally succesful, but it´s ok.The swirly earrings - Rose - are listed in my Etsy shop though. Because they are

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Romantic = checkSwirly = checkWhite pearls = checkOxidized = checkYepp, they do look like I´ve made them. Feels like I´m caught making the same design over and over again. But I guess it´s like that sometimes. Certain designs need your attention for a while before you feel finished with them.You can find more pictures here: www.suzyqjewelry.etsy.com

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The things that make you happy! I thought my days at the frontpage of Etsy was over, since I´m not that active anymore. But look what lovely friends send me today - a screen cap of the frontpage with my Little Mermaid necklace. Still celebrating.... :)

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I have finally written down the step-by-step method I´ve been teaching in Stockholm - FIND YOUR SIGNATURE STYLE!About the tutorialThis tutorial describes a step-by-step method that will help you find your own signature style. It is also very useful when building collections.The jewelry making world is ful of fun techniques and beautiful materials. It´s easy to get lost and never find your own

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I´m so honoured! I´m among several teachers at Jewelrylesson.com to become Power Teacher of the month now in October. Lot´s of thanks to Eni Oken, my own Power Teacher. I bought my first tutorial from her years ago and started my wire wrapping career. When I found her site and saw her jewelry I was totally blown away by the beauty of her designs. She´s also an amazing business woman.

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I really don´t have the time, or enough material at home, but I felt I just had to play with wires again. This pendant is made of left overs, both chains and bits of wire. It´s all made with stones in soothing turquoise and sea foam green. And the size and shape of the pendant is perfect for a shirt with a button open or a v-neck top. The pendant and chain is adorned with a collection of stones -

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I was so happy about the possibility to post my tutorials at http://www.jewelrylesson.com/. I admire Eni Oken, both as a designer and business woman. And my tutorial there has been a success. So I felt very inspired to make another one, as I wrote in my previous post.But today I found a new tutorial listed on exactly this design. It´s hard to claim a design as your own, I know that. But the

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I´m working on a new tutorial. It will be a on how to make my Anne Boleyn earrings. The technique can be used to make connectors and various earwires, even for long earrings. It should be up and listed in about a week. I also applied to Jewelrylessons.com to perhaps reach another audience than the regular one through Etsy.

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This weekend I held a class in Stockholm in how to find your jewelry trademark and the result from the participants were fantastic. Above you can see the clip book from Sussi Norberg, an interial decorator that also makes jewelry. Visit her blog Sussies värld for more pictures and of course to see her beautiful jewelry.What I teach in the class is a step-by-step method to achive a recognizable

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First wire piece since the end of April! I finally got time to make a tutorial I´ve been thinking of for a long time. And heres the necklace that came out of that. The tutorial will be listed in my Etsy shop this weekend or in the beginning of next week.I named the necklace after my friend Anna who is getting married next Saturday. Anna is a classical pearl necklace with a swirly pendant. I think

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I actually made it. My new webshop www.mioora.se launched today. You are all so very welcome to drop in and have a look. All opinions are welcome. I want to approave as much as I can.And I definitely want to stock more designers. Arrrggghhh! The pain to order with my limited budget!!!! But hang on. Goodies are on it´s way. I will fill the shop with more necklaces, brooches and bracelets.I´m so

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I have almost sold out all my previous jewelry and I can finally see the end of the tunnel for my new project.I have a logotype for my new webshop made by lovely Frida Eklund Edman from Modelform. She also runs a shop with the coolest clothes for children http://www.modelmini.se/. And I love my logotype and the company profile she´s created for me. I highly recommend working with her.I have

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So I´ve done it. I´ve marked down everything in my Etsy shops 50%. I´m going to move on to new adventures and will hopefully not have the time to create intricate wire pieces.My adventure is a webshop with jewelry, launched for Swedes at first, but perhaps with the rest of Europe as target in the future.I will sell mostly other peoples designs. I´m tired of the jewelry webshops that are around

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I know I´ve been very absent lately. No blogging, no jewelry making. But I have two wonderful reasons.One of my reasons are my kittens of course. They need a lot of attention being orfants. They´ve become very social and just adorable little kittycats with different personalities.The only time they drive me mad is when all four of them are climbing my legs. IT HURTS!!!The second reason for my

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Both happy and sad...Originally uploaded by SuzyQJewelryI´ve not been around much. And the reason is our cat Leia (yes, my boys love Star Wars) died a week ago. She got got hit by a car and died. As you see on the pic she left four kittens for me to take care of. Now my grief has turned into joy. It´s such a bliss to be accepted by these kittens as their new caretaker. They really cling to me

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I have no room for more beads. And it´s a crime to have beautiful beads lying around for no use. So I´ve put togheter some bead mixes and listed them in my www.suzyqjewelry.etsy.com shop.Enjoy!

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I´ve been creating tiny intricate stuff for some time now. But the bright sun, inspired me to make some plain colourful pieces for my Suzy Q Trinkets shop.Normally I don´t like to just string my jewelry. Bores the /&%¤ out of me. But these I actually enjoyed making.Sometimes I get an image in my head and can´t get rid of it until I create what I see. And it was just like that with this simple

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This months Team Wire Artisans Guild challenge "Emerald Isle" and my longing for spring really came together in this necklace. The image I got in my head when thinking of "Emerald Isle" was green meadows full of spring flowers.I tried to work on a celtic inspired idea, but the meadow image kept popping up in my head. So here it is...The original idea was to make a pearl chain. I have a strand of

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The winter is finally letting it´s grip of Sweden go. The snow is melting with an amazing speed and out comes snow drops and those tiny yellow flowers I don´t know the name of.All these spring feelings have made me long for strong colours. And is it just me or is Etsy flooding with lovely jewelry in strong colours?Browsing around today I found some favorites I just have to share.First

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Woke up feeling loved today. 1400 people have marked me as a favorite on Etsy.com. 1400!!!I know Etsy is a big community, but I never thought I´d get that many hearts. I will celebrate by browsing aroung Etsy hearting other sellers. I want more people to feel like this :).Let´s make this a "hearting" day!

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Just wanted to show you some of the things I´ve been working on.This is a commission order where the customers bought all the material. It was a challenge, but fun.It was a long time since I made any of these bangles. It´s based on a tutorial by Eni Oken, a wonderful american jewelry designer.The colour combination chosen by the customer is wonderful, beautiful rhodocrosite and rhodonite beads

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No blogging in a long time. But I haven´t vanished. I have several commission orders and I´m working on starting a second business too.Of course I feel blessed when having special orders. But my sketches are piling up and I feel I have a lot of creativity that needs to erupt soon.Beware for new designs at the end of March :)

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Today I´ve been struggling with making my tiniest earrings with this technique ever. Just be happy the ugly words I used while doing it are´nt wrapped into the design.First I had the intention to make the swirls a bit differently. But I couldn´t manage to get the wires to fit into these tiny drop shapes. So I used a very familiar design in the end.I´m pleased though. They look so fabulous on and

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Lately I´ve been reading a lot about how to name companies and brands.I´m thinking about opening a jewelry store in Sweden and need a great name. I´ve browsed the web and found a bunch of things to consider when picking a name. Here are some of the ideas I´ve found useful.Get an “umbrella” name. If you are going to sell jewelry, don´t have a name with jewelry in it. What if you want to start

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I´ve added a new necklace to my Etsy shop. This necklace really is an expression of my dreams of summer and spring.Last night it fell another 4" of snow so the winter keeps holding a tight grip of Sweden. My kids love it though. The snow castles they´ve built in the garden are amazing. But yet, my cat and I agree upon one thing - it´s enough now. Let the spring arrive!Well, back to the necklace,

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"First I have to appologize to my English speaking readers. But I have to add a post in Swedish here. My Swedish homepage have stoped working due to the program that build the page. So while waiting for my new Swedish page/webshop, I´m re-directing the traffich to my blog. And here is some information about it in Swedish - you might catch a word or two :)"Vad har hänt med www.suzyq.se?Min svenska

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Quote from Wikipedia about Côte d'Azur:"The Côte d'Azur is one of the first resort areas in the world. It began as a health resort for ailing British tourists at the end of the 18th century.With the arrival of the railroad in the mid-19th century, it became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, when he was Prince

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HAPPY VALENTINE!!!My husband surprised me with some hidden gifts. He´s off with the kids skiing, but he had hidden his gifts under my pillow. So sweet of him!!I´m having a ♥:♥:♥ VALENTINE SPECIAL ♥:♥:♥ in my shop too. Some of my favorites has been put down 50%. So treat yourself!♥:♥:♥ Love to you all! ♥:♥:♥Link to my shop: www.suzyqjewelry.etsy.com

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Now I´ve had the possibility to view my visitor statistics on my Etsy stores through Google Analytics for a month. And I love it! It’s perfect to see the response to my shop activities.I can see from my figures I´ve been having an average 100 visitors a day to my http://www.suzyqjewelry.etsy.com/ shop. And during this month a total of 2780 visits. I have nothing to relate to, but it feels like a

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This is a bangle made for The Wire Artisans Guild challenge Stardust and our great re-opening of our Etsy team store on Valentines day.The movie Stardust begins and ends with the beautiful Lady Una living in the magical world of Fairie. Lady Una is kept as a slave for Madame Semele. She gives birth to the main character, Tristan, but has to leave him to his father who lives in "the real world".

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I recently wrote about my great grandmothers necklace as a source for my love of intricate designs. But something of equal importance to the origin of my style, as the necklace, is my period as a guard and guide at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. This was something I did while studying for a masters degree in Art. The palace in Stockholm was built in the 18th century and is fully furnished with a

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My favorite type of custom orders are when a customer wants something made for a special gown or dress. Nothing triggers my creative engine like that kind of request. I love to come up with designs that fits how the dress is cut, the textures and the colours. Just like I did for sweet Erin who had the most beautiful vintage 50´s gown for her wedding. Erins dress is all cream coloured and wrapped

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This necklace is made for the monthly Wire Artisans challenge, and the theme for the month is Affair Of The Hearts. My jewelry are normally very romantic, but this time I went all the way and made a VERY romantic piece. It´s all about that wonderful first love we experience where the world are seen through pink glasses and will never be the same. It´s like someone found a key to our most inner

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These earrings are made for The Wire Artisan Teams monthly challenge (www.thewireartisansguild.blogspot.com). And the theme of the month is Tasty.I just love ice cream - it´s one of my addictions. And an ice cream sold in Sweden is called Crema di Mascarpone. It´s nothing like the Italian original I suspect - but I love the taste. It´s ice cream with mascarpone cheese, raspberry and pistagio

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Right now I´ve got a thing for jewelry with textiles, lace and embroidery-like solutions. And suddenly I see it everywhere. A trend perhaps?I´ve tried to figure out what it is that I like about the usage of fabric in jewelry. And it must be the textures and the contrast between hard and soft, if the jewelry also are made of metal. Fabric and metal makes a great clash between cold and warm. Since

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If it´s possible at all to point out a certain object to be the source of my style it has to be this necklace. My great grandmother, Fanny, a lady with Sami origin (natives living in the north of Sweden) got this as a gift 1947.It´s a 925 sterling silver pendant with a rococo lady and beautiful ornaments. I´ve always adored this piece. The design contains everything I want to achive with my own

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Today I finished a pair of long sexy and sparkly earrings for my FAIRY TALES collection.They are named after Thumbelina the tiny character in Hans Christian Andersens story about the lady who wished for a child and got a tiny little girl no longer than a thumb. The lady was ever so happy for her little girl. But one night a large toad takes Thumbelina with him as a wife for his son. After that

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This is a piece I started sketching on as my contribution to The Wire Artisans Guild challenge ART NOUVEAU. But somewhere along the way it travelled in time and ended up more as an EDWARDIAN piece. But the two styles where very close to each other in time.The Edwardian era are sometimes referred to as the “belle époque”. Swirly intricate designs where common and platinum and pearls where highly

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Wow, I´m so exited! Scaring my neighbours right now with my own wild celebration choreography.I´ve reached more than 1300 hearts at Etsy. When someone save you as their favorite shop you get a "heart".I´ve been waiting so long to take the step past 1300 hearts. And been having so many defeats. Just when it was 1299 it dropped down one or two hearts. People must have been cleaning their saved

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Even if I´ve been making jewelry since 2004, I still have a hard time to combine colours. Most of the time I end up with using only hues of one colour. And I so admire jewelry artists that are good at combining three or more colours like Sky Dreams or Elle a Belle. But I work hard to get by this and I think I´ve become better in the past year.I use some tricks that I want to share to you poor

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Yes, I got myself a treasury!It was a long time ago since I made a treasury. So I was surprised when there suddenly was room to make one right as I opened up the Treasury at Etsy.If you never heard of a treasury before, it´s a possibility for Etsy users to pick their favorite items and make a collage with themNormally I have a theme planned for the collage - and I have already picked items and

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Today I noticed a new site in my "referring sites" statistics at Google Analytics. It´s fun to see which site people visited before mine.The new site I found that suddenly seemed to direct a lot of traffic to my blog is www.ikeafans.com/ . They´ve written an article about my IKEA photo tent.It made my day!Read the article here.

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Custom orders where you work close with the customer to decide which material you´re going to use are fun. But the e-mail traffic following such a mission can be overwhelming. Sometimes it can be hard to keep track of all information; what has been said and not.Now I have found a way to make this work a lot easier and I want to share it with other jewelry designers. I´ve started to use wikis to

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I amused myself this morning with searching for sites who link to my Etsy shops and my blog. And I found many interesting sites and news about my business (!!!). So I thought I´d share with you on how to do this in an easy and fast way. Probably most of you know of this simple action, but I just found out.Just go to Google.com and write "link:" and your url adress without the http thing. Example

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I get a lot of questions about my photos, both on how I arrange the light and which camera I use. So I thought I share my way of taking pics here.I use a Canon Eos 30D, but I think the quality of the photos depend more on which camera objective lens you use. I have a Canon macro lens EF 100mm 1:2.8. It allows me to get sharp photos and get real close. See pic and read more about the objective

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Here it is - the Sleeping Beauty necklace I blogged about earlier. Now it´s finally been put together. It looks almost like my sketch, I only did a few changes and added the draped chain on both sides. The design needed more balance.I got the inspiration from an illustration of Sleeping Beauty by William A. Breakspeare. So beautiful and with an oriental touch. You´ll find the illustration

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It´s a strange feeling to see yourself in a magazine. I never get used to it. But it´s fantastic to see your pieces displayed and to have someone writing about your business. This is an article about doing business on Etsy.Etsy is something new to both sellers and buyers in Sweden. When doing a search I can only find 49 Swedish sellers at Etsy - it should be more! I hope this article will help

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Today there are many sites to sell your homemade crafts. I only use Etsy at the moment, but have been thinking of trying my luck at other sites. But how do you know which one to choose? Now Foundhandmade.com has done half the job for you. They´ve listed traffic and compared fees. eBay, Café Press and Etsy are top three. I have never heard of Café Press but will definitely have a look at that

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We heard it already last year - large, statement jewelry is the thing. And this will continue through spring and summer 2009 according to Fashionising.com . That sounds great to me since wire jewelry almost always tend to becom large.Jewellery in the 2009 collections from the cat walks, took many and various forms. There were a few common threads amoung them, however, including:Geometric

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The Wire Artisans Guild is looking for new members to join our team!The Wire Artisans Guild is a group of wire jewelry designers and artists who have assembled for camaraderie and to help each other promote our Etsy shops.We will be accepting 10 new members and please understand that your work will be juried in order to become a guild member. We are an Etsy street team so you must be an Etsy

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I know this is totally off topic. But I got these pics of little babies made of, what I thought was, marsipan at first. But it turned out they are made of clay. They are...FANTASTIC, scary and so amazingly well made. I just had to share this!Can you imagine the feeling of holding one of those mini babies in your hand. You must be overwhelmed with an urge to protect.The talented artist making

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When I started with wire wrapping I used to make this kind of cuffs. I had learned from tutorials by Eni Oken: http://www.enijewelry.com/ . It was fun but very time consuming. So for more than a year now I haven´t been making these.But now I have a custom order for a cuff with rhodocrosite and garnet. And I´m exited! And the order is of the kind when you work close with the customer to decide

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Looking for inspiration for new fabulous designs? Why not have a look at what all the celebrities where wearing for their red carpet moments previous years.http://www.diamond-legend.info/people/redcarpet.htmlI love to google around the web for fantastic outfits and jewelry. It makes my creative mind go off instantly. So whenever my mind is empty when sitting at the working bench I just go to the

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I really love making jewelry for my new FAIRY TALES collection. I found this illustration of Sleeping Beauty by William A. Breakspeare. It´s something oriental with the image. It´s the colors and the shapes of the bedside table. Anyway she´s beautiful, and I got a large necklace about to be made. All the bits, pieces and stones are ready to be put togheter. It´s going to be purple, white and with

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NIGHTINGALE earrings is part of my new collection FAIRY TALES, with intricate and colorful jewelry inspired by characters in stories from all over the world.Material:925 sterling silver wire and findings. Golden citrine briolettes, tundru sapphire rondelles. Oxidized and tumble to a beautiful shine.Size:1.5"/4cm including ball postNIGHTINGALE is a story by Danish HC Andersen about the chinese

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I´m starting off 2009 with a new collection, FAIRY TALES, with intricate and colorful jewelry inspired by characters in stories from all over the world.First story to be transferred into a piece of jewelry is 1000 and one nights. The beautiful SCHEHERAZADE inspired to a pair of dangling spicy earrings.Material:925 sterling silver wire and findings. Large whiskey quartz briolettes. Rhodolite

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VOILA - no more mess!!!Originally uploaded by SuzyQJewelryThe picture shows my petite studio where the adventures of this blog will take place...And yes, this is right after I´ve gotten rid of my mess: little bits of wires that only amuses the cat. But normally I´m pretty organized. All the semi-precious beads are sorted by color in the white drawer under the bench. There lies the silver wire too

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So I´ve taken the first step! I´m with blog too - as every normal human being seems to be.With this blog I will try to gather all ends of my split personality and try to give an image of what lies behind the jewelry I create.I guess one post or two about my everyday life will end up here too....But that´s just me. I tend to go off in all directions at once - all the time :)Welcome!

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