Friday, October 16, 2009

Gold Diva Gorgeous Pendant just for 42$!?! How is it possible?


This is my (Maria) piece.

This absolutely gorgeous pendant is a classical version of “hoop-add-dangles“ jewelry. This is what 90% women love to wear for a special occasion (including me :)

If you look for a “gemstone pendant” you will see a dozen in a price around 100-200$. But what if you like the design, but feel pain looking at the price? And surely enough, you don’t want plastic for your special occasion jewelry, right?

So my goal was to make as miraculous piece as those for 200$, but to make it affordable.

The Ruse here is that I, first, looked for all possible gem briolletes and hand-picked those, who had charming appearance, but were not too expensive. This way, I didn’t look for diamonds, peridots or sapphires, but I found some absolutely adorable carnelian, quartz, aquamarine and cubic zirconia briolettes!

Second, I’m selling this pendant WITHOUT a gold-filled chain which would add at least 13$ to the price. This is an experiment, and I rely on the fact that almost every woman usually has a gold tone or gold-filled chain in her jewelry collection. Why to have dozens if you need just one you can wear with various pendants?

I’m actually thinking about silver version of it too, although in that case, I would go darker, something with antiqued filigree… but that’s for future, and now here is this stunning piece of jewelry in a surprisingly affordable price range!

I’ve made one in bold sunny orange (perfect for fall) palette for one customer (that one has garnets instead of Swarovski), and she says she loves it! I hope you’ll love this Gold Diva too.

Radiant ring size is 3 cm, and bottom dangles are about 2-3 cm long.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Tribute to P!nk


I became a Big fan of P!nk right when she started.
I adored her wildness, rock&roll and r&B mixing in music and a signature voice. Her sense of freedom and confidence to be herself even in worst times amazed me.
I guess my musical taste is evolving towards Tori Amos-like melodies, however, I still listen to P!nk every time I need energy and a swirl.










This Necklace is my tribute to Her sense of freedom in whatever she puts on!

Look at Tears of Beauty Necklace

Kisses, Maria.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

First CUSTOM order!


My first custom order!

I believe you can easily imagine how much excitement it brings!

I got obsessive compulsive trying to make this item PERFECT. Not just perfect, a paragon of beauty, so I always will try to repeat this and never will.

I know the road of perfection does not have an end.

And that’s awesome!

I love this pendant, and I’m really excited to show it to you!

This gorgeous pendant includes Cubic Zirconia briolette (center), three carnelian briolettes (bottom), the scattering of gold stones, swarovski crystals, and faceted garnets (top) around a radiant copper toned ring.
The gems used here are endless sources of all sort of sparkles and shimmering shades of bronze, sunny orange and gold. This all makes perfect sense - the magnificent piece of jewelery for the fabulous Lady ;)


Feel free

to comment on this work, I would love to answer any questions!






















Thursday, October 1, 2009

If you want to say smth, say it!

As I said before, hammering of precious metals gave me plenty of new ideas.
And surely, first thing came to head was to implement words and phrases into my designs.
So-called statement pendants are so fun to sketch and even more fun to wear!
You don't even have to wonder which phrase came to life at first :)))














This little ruse used here, to highlight the statement, I framed it in a antiqued twisted and hammered copper ring:





















Ok, and just one more "panoramic" picture :)))


So, what do you think about it?

Would you like one
with your own statement? ;)