de Cor's Handmades - Handmade Jewelry Malaysia: August 2009

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Movie File uploaded

Finally have some time to make this and uploaded to YouTube, thanks to the long weekend (Merdeka!!!) in Malaysia, hope you enjoy the movie, and if you like it, place a vote for me will ya? Thanks!

 

P/S 2 more days to the B1F1 Promotion, don’t miss it!

-Me-

Pineapple Knot Earrings, Wired Chinese Knot

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Was doing research on Pineapple knot – the more I read the more I realize Pineapple knot is actually a variation knot that formed base on Turk’s-Head Knot. And yes you guess it right, we all think about Loren Damewood when it came to Turks’-Head Knot, and hey, we’ve exchanged several conversation last year! So again I looked-up in Google, and followed the link to Loren’s website. It’s not hard to find Loren at all (I added Loren in Facebook, you should too!) I read through his site, and visited his details page, and identified mine as 3 strains, 4 bights and 5 leads Turks’-Head Knot! (Loren’s are at least 7-9 bights? I don’t know how he made those, he sure is the master of this knot!)

 

So visit his website to find out more details – I am not sure if he has the exact same knot as mine, but I am sure you will be totally benefitted from that amount of knowledge-bases articles available in his website home.

 

Have fun!

-Me-

Saturday, August 29, 2009

3 More Days!

3 More Days to the end of PROMOTION! If you are procrastinating – STOP! And do it NOW – Buy any core tutorial to get any other tutorial for absolutely FREE.

 

*As mentioned, Tutorials packages are not applicable!*

 

Hurry up your order!

 

-Me-

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Chic-Choc, Knotted Earrings

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I am having GREAT time deciding which pair of earrings I should be wearing every morning after cutting my hair short – the amount of fun I had even restored my creativeness!

So, this is a Two-In-One design, and I named it as Chic-Choc Knotted Earrings - don’t know where the name came from, but that’s what I had in mind! And I am truly thrilled with the result. Wear it in Chic design in day time, and pull to transform it into a long, slim and sexy Choc design, good to go with any outfit – it made me think that may be I really am quite good in creating LOL!!!

Available in Etsy and ArtFire!

Earrings measurement:

Chic design is 4.7cm tall

Choc design is 6.4cm tall

Weight: 1.9gram each

E-mail me.or Convo me (if you are have an Etsy account) if you would like to have a pair of this!

Enjoy your weekend!

-Me-

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Alice Cullen is too cool!

Alice Cullen New moon forks high

Picture source: http://www.newmoonmovie.org/2009/08/new-picture-of-alice-cullen-at-school-in-new-moon/

 

Did I tell you I always thought Ashley Greene is such a sweetheart? Gosh she is just… too gorgeous, too sweet! Sigh why can’t we get the chance to wear like that to school when we were younger? It takes a long while to find what looks good on us isn’t it? I wished I had the wardrobe of hers, I wished I had the fashion sense of whoever that’s putting these clothes on her, I wished we had the weather for us Malaysian to wear like that!!!

 

Time to watch Twilight for the 67th times. Eeek!

 

-Me-

Xie-Brios in Sterling Silver

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Earrings For Cyndi. Hope she like it! :P

Weight: 3.8gram and 4gram respectively

Technique: Xie-Brios Earrings tutorial

Related Article: Sneak-Peak, the making of Xie-Brios Earrings

 

P/S Don’t forget to check out the current SALE/PROMOTION that’s still going on!

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Me-

Thursday, August 20, 2009

National Day SALE!

31st August of every year is Malaysia’s National Day – and I am throwing a promotion to make you happy (I lie, I just want to run a promotion, any reason will do. XD)

So please go ahead and shop, buy ONE CORE tutorial and get another one for FREE – choose your free tutorial from either Core-Tutorial series or Mini-Tutorial series, tell me your choice of free tutorial by sending me an E-mail, or leaving me a message at “Instruction To Seller” when you checkout.

Promotion applies to transaction(s) made in the following locations ONLY:

- http://decors.etsy.com

- http://decors.artfire.com

- http://decors-tutorials.blogspot.com/

Event Starts: UTC (or GMT/Zulu)-time used: Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 07:39:19 (NOW!!!)
Event Ends: UTC (or GMT/Zulu)-time used: Monday, August 31, 2009 at 16:00:00 (Click to check when will that be for your timezone.)

UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.

Catalog:

Core-TUTORIAL SERIES:

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MINI-TUTORIAL SERIES:

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THIS PROMOTION DOES NOT APPLY TO PACKAGES PURCHASE, BECAUSE ALL PACKAGES HAD ALREADY BEEN MARKED DOWN WITH THEIR PRICES.

Last but not least, if you have not already, don’t forget to claim your FREE GIFT by visiting TwinHearts Ring Tutorial blog entry:

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Hope you have fun!

Hugs,

-Me-

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Went for a spin

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Went for a spin, GTR certainly is a damn fast car. I laughed out loud when the car overtook all other cars in just a split seconds – effortlessly.

Human being are hard to pleased – this car is selling at approximately RM 700,000 over here! Considering people here and people in the U.S. are earning on a dollar to dollar basis, would you spend USD700,000 over this car? And yet, I laughed like a kid that’s finally get to play something interesting when I was in it – that said, I “need” a toy that would cost 700grand to make me happy!

 

-__________-

 

It’s Nissan GTR. And no, it’s not my car.

 

But I get to have fun! wo0t

 

-Me-

Monday, August 17, 2009

Sneak Peak

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Tada – a sneak peak of the Xie-Brios tutorial!

 

So you wonder what’s so special about this knot? Well unlike the usual way which we will thread the wires through the drilled-hole and then coil on to to decorate it for a bit, the set of coils were created prior the knot is form, and as you pull the wire-tails outwards, the coil-sets will go inwards, getting closer with each other. The tutorial also include a set of instruction on how to get the measurement right.

 

I will try this for a round bead next time around. :)

 

Happy Monday all!

-Me-

Sunday, August 16, 2009

MINI TUTORIAL - STEP BY STEP WIRE JEWELRY - Xie-Brios Earrings, DCHMT008






Tutorial-DCH018: Xie-Brios Earrings
Level: Intermediate

A totally fun and useful alternate way to decorate your Briolette beads! This tutorial is categorized under Mini Tutorial Series.

A totally new approach to decorate your Brios, flexible and easy way to decorate your jewelry beads, be it a Briolette or any shape of beads - as long as they have been drilled.

The tutorial delivers 19 simple steps to create this pair of earrings!

PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THE "ALL Core TUTORIALS" package and "ANY 3 TUTORIALS" package does not apply to or include this tutorial.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The content in this tutorial including All pictures and text were taken and wrote by me.

Introduction:
There are total of 19 steps in making this pair of earrings, to deliver the clearest instruction, the beautifully taken 56 pictures will provide you the means from end to end to make this pendant. In this document, it also listed out the tools and materials being used. This lesson shows how to develop a pair of beautiful Xie-Brios Earrings.

Delivery:
The PDF format document will be sent to the E-mail address set in your PayPal account within 24 hours or sooner upon payment received. File size: 555KB

Background Story:
I am never good at wrapping briolettes, hence I thought I'd invent one. :) Hope you like this!

Saturday, August 15, 2009

More pic of the hair!

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I am getting use to it, and I am lovin’ it.

AND…

I knew you want to see me! XD

 

Happy Weekend ALL!!!

 

-Me-

Thursday, August 13, 2009

How do you like this?

short


12 inches – gone. How’d you like the new me?

P/S I don’t know how to smile yet with this hair. But I can only get over it and get use to it from now on no? :)

LOVE ME!
-Me-

Monday, August 10, 2009

Leah

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I am never good at wrapping briolette, so I use jump-rings to hang those brios this time, and I (honestly) never good at naming my design(s) – “Leah” was the first name that came into my mind after I am done with this pair of earrings. Yeah, it’s from “Twilight” (again), the female-wolf that Sam left behind after he met his imprint girl. I guess the leaf-like shape of the earrings contribute a little on the idea of naming it after “Leah”.

It’s blue obsidian teardrop beads by the way.

Hope you’d find it interesting!


Technique used: TwinHearts Knot, Ring (FREE)

-Me-