Handmade Wire Hair Pins by Kuryakova Liudmila a.k.a. KL-WireDream

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Brass Blue Flower

Featured Artist: Kuryakova Liudmila from Kyiv, Ukraine.

I've blogged about Liudmila's Wire Jewelry Haircombs yesterday, today I am going to compile her Wire Jewelry 2 Prongs Hairpins Gallery. The main different is that hair-combs are in comb format i.e. more sticks/ prongs, which could hold the bun's shapes better than 2 prongs hairpins, I personally uses 2 prongs hairpins on daily basis because hair-combs are usually too wide for my little hair buns, unless I am making french hair buns will I use hair-combs to stay put the shape. :)

So the first Wire Jewelry Hairpin above is Brass Blue Flower.

This hair pin has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with brass featuring labradorite using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 15 cm
- Comb: 10 cm
- Crown Size: 5.5 X 4.5 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Brass Blue Flower when worn:

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Brass Blue Flower

2) Handmade Wire Hairpin - Brass Flower Bud Hairpin with Pearl

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Brass Flower Bud Hairpin with Pearl

This hair pin has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with brass featuring pearl using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 16.5 cm
- Comb: 8 - 11 cm
- Crown Size: 4.5 X 3.5 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Brass Flower Bud Hairpin with Pearl when worn:

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Brass Flower Bud Hairpin with Pearl

3) Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Moonlight Lily

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Moonlight Lily

This hair pin has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with 92.5 sterling silver, adularia, silver and brass beads, using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 14.3 cm
- Comb: 10 cm
- Crown Size: 5 X 4.3 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Silver Moonlight Lily when worn:

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Moonlight Lily

4) Handmade Wire Hairpin - Rainbow Flower

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Rainbow Flower

This hair pin has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with 92.5 sterling silver, rainbow color labradorite, silver beads, using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 15 cm
- Comb: 10 cm
- Crown Size: 5 X 4.3 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Silver Moonlight Lily when worn:

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Rainbow Flower

5) Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Blue Lotus

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Blue Lotus

This hair pin has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with 92.5 sterling silver, natural color labradorite and blue sheen, using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 13 cm
- Comb: 9 cm
- Crown Size: 4 X 4.5 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Silver Blue Lotus when worn:

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Blue Lotus

6) Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Honey Lotus

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Honey Lotus

This hair pin has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with 92.5 sterling silver, honey color labradorite and silver beads, using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 13.5 cm
- Comb: 9 cm
- Crown Size: 5 X 4.5 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Silver Honey Lotus when worn:

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Honey Lotus

7) Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Twins Flower Buds

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Twins Flower Buds

This hair pin has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with 92.5 sterling silver, inlays of carve ivory, using cold forging technique and elements of the torsion wire

Sold in pairs only!

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 12 cm
- Comb: 9 cm
- Decorating Focal Size: 3 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Silver Twins Flower Buds when worn:

Handmade Wire Hairpin - Silver Twins Flower Buds

So there, hairpins series actually does come with silver prongs, I can't help wondering how sturdy it is, silver are usually soft unless it is heavily tumbled, these hairpins ought to be as tough as silver spoons otherwise it's going to be challenging to stay put the hair buns. :)

Pay a visit to Liudmila's online store if you are keen, though she didn't really have many items to offer right now, may be write to her personally to commission some of her works?

Thanks for visiting this blog by the way. :)

Corra @ de Cor's

Handmade Wire Hair Combs by Kuryakova Liudmila a.k.a. KL-WireDream

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Copper Crest Lily

Featured Artist: Kuryakova Liudmila from Kyiv, Ukraine.

If you came by this blog-post via search engine wishing to know more about Liudmila, please accept my deepest apologies, this incredible jewelry artist doesn't disclose much of herself on the internet and even if she does, it's in a language I could not comprehend, I've tried online translating engine but the output don't make much sense so I'd rather not to make up some story about her, all I could put together were her beautiful handmade pieces, and since I adores her hair accessories very, very much, so I am going to spend some time to introduce her handmade wire jewelry hair accessories (haircombs and hairpins, to be precised.)

And today I am going to focus on her Wire Haircombs series only.

The first featured handmade wire jewelry haircomb in this blog post is Copper Crest Lily.

This hair comb has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with copper using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 12 X 7 cm
- Comb: 7 cm
- Crown Size: 4.5 X 7 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Copper Crest Lily when worn:

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Copper Crest Lily

2) Handmade Wire Haircomb - Brass Ocean

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Brass Ocean

This hair comb has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with brass featuring labradorite using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 15 cm
- Comb: 10 cm
- Flower Focal Size: 5 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation, hand polished.
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Brass Ocean when worn:

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Brass Ocean

3) Handmade Wire Haircomb - Brass Fuksitom

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Brass Fuksitom /td>

This hair comb has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with brass featuring fuchsia and natural garnets using cold forging technique.

Lightweight haircomb, suitable for thin hair wearer.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 11 X 6 cm
- Comb: 7.5 cm
- Crown Size: 4 X 6 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation, hand polished.
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Brass Fuksitom when worn:

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Brass Fuksitom

4) Handmade Wire Haircomb - Brass Comb Lily

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Brass Comb Lily

This hair comb has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with brass adorned with freshwater pearls using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 13.5 cm
- Comb: 8.5 cm
- Crown Size: 6.5 x 5 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation (darkening), hand polished.
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Brass Comb Lily in hand:

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Brass Comb Lily

5) Handmade Wire Haircomb - Copper Crest Sleeping Beauty

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Copper Crest Sleeping Beauty

This hair comb has been SOLD and cannot be reproduced. Fully handmade with copper,  adorned with some copper beads, ridge with an insert of glass Goldstone using cold forging technique.

Measurements:
- Overall Size: 14 X 7.5 cm
- Comb: 7.5 cm
- Flower Focal Size: 6.5 X 7.5 cm
Finishing: Patina oxidation, hand polished.
Product care: Occasionally polish with soft cloths.
Below image shows the actual size of Copper Crest Sleeping Beauty when worn:

Handmade Wire Haircomb - Copper Crest Sleeping Beauty

So far these are the wire jewelry haircombs done by Liudmila I could find, I am sure there are more, most of them were made with copper or brass, I'd personally wish to see more of them in silver. Oh and I thought titanium might be a good choice too - sturdy, lightweight and will not tarnish, then again, I have never really made any hair accessories with precious metal myself so until then, I shall continue to study.

Thank you, miss Kuryakova Liudmila, I truly enjoyed viewing your beautiful creations.

Lots of love,
Corra @ de Cor's

Malaysia Handmade: Butterfly Jewelry Hair Clip with No-slip Grip

Name: Butterfly Jewelry Hair Clip with No-slip Grip.

I try to make my little one a little something every month, and this month I decided to make something slightly bigger, and something colorful. I hardly make anything colorful in my line of designs, so this new try is pretty exciting.

So here it is. It's a butterfly, with white, blur, dark green gold and pink Swarovski Crystal Pearl beads, featuring pink CZ Stones and Green CZ Stone. I don't have Grosgrain blue ribbons, only satins; and a piece of 4.5" of hot pink grosgrain ribbons.

Her Dad's comment was this does looks like something suitable for ladies at all age...

Can you imagine it on a toddler, a teenager or even a bride's head?

Something old, something new;
Something borrowed, something blue;
And a silver sixpence in her shoes.

Do you think my little daughter would wear this for a really long time? All the way til on the day she gets married? I am thinking too far long, heh. I wonder if all mothers does that.

A side view of it the butterfly:

In my hand. I didn't notice those glues on the wings until I was processing these photos for a blog post. So silly. I only pay attentions onto those wires, though those glues can be easily removed. I shall examine all my pieces before I publish them in the future, I can't stand this kinda silly flaws, it's poking my eyes now. LOL.

And this is my precious little one. She crawled over and pecked on my cheek for the very, very first time this morning. Heh. Growing up too fast. Too fast.

Hope you had fun viewing my handmade little jewelry hairclip, I look forward in creating something again soon!

Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

Golden Color Wire Jewelry Bow Hair Clip

Making baby hair accessories can be so addictive, I made another two! But would save the other one for next blog entry. :)

This time I made a yellow classic bow hair clip with the same measurements I've used to make the hot-pink hairclip:
- 2" long bare hair clip
- 1 piece of 4.5" 3/8 inch Grosgrain Ribbon to wrap around the bare hair clip.
- 2 pieces of 4" 3/8 inch Grosgrain Ribbon
- 1 piece of 2" 3/6 inch Grosgrain Ribbon (I sew my wire jewelry focal right at the center of the ribbon, vertically.)
- 1 piece of 1cm X 3cm grip

Tool:
- Scissors (sharp one)
- Lighter
- Hot Glue Gun
- Glue for hot glue gun
- Wires (20ga, 28ga and 30ga)
- 8mm tall tear drop beads (I used Gold color CZ Tear Drop Stone)
- 3mm round beads (I used Swarovski Crystal Pearl beads)


Again it has no-slip grip installed.

 

And it look absolutely extraordinary on my baby's head - it will be too on it's new owner's, I genuinely hope the toddler and her mother will both like it! :)

 

Stay tuned for my next blog entry! :)



Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

DIY Wire Jewelry Bow Hair Clip (with no-slip grip)

Spinning off the previous attempt, I made yet another Jewelry Hair Clip! This time, I made a classic bow hair clip by following instructions from Ashley's Simple Bow Hair Clips (with non-slip grip) tutorial!

So have you made your's yet? No? You really should have, it's easy, Ashley had all details covered!

And here's the materials and it's measurements I've used:
- 2" long bare hair clip
- 1 piece of 4.5" 3/8 inch Grosgrain Ribbon to wrap around the bare hair clip.
- 2 pieces of 4" 3/8 inch Grosgrain Ribbon
- 1 piece of 2" 3/6 inch Grosgrain Ribbon (I sew my wire jewelry focal right at the center of the ribbon, vertically.)
- 1 piece of 1cm X 3cm grip


Tool:
- Scissors (sharp one)
- Lighter
- Hot Glue Gun
- Glue for hot glue gun
- Wires (20ga, 28ga and 30ga)
- 8mm tall tear drop beads (I used pink color CZ Tear Drop Stone)
- 3mm round beads (I used Swarovski Crystal Pearl beads)

And I JUST realized that I did not glue the grip onto a piece of felt first - but it works anyway. :)

The view of the non-slip grips:

And though this isn't meant for my little one, I let her model it anyway. Look absolutely stunning ain't it? I do hope people would notice this isn't an usual cute baby hair-clip, it's custom-made, and made with lots of love. :)

The little new owner ought to love this little jewelry hair clip! :)

Hope you have fun viewing, and make some of bow hair clips soon! :)



Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

DIY Wire Jewelry Baby Hair Clip

This is a DIY Wire Jewelry Baby Hair Clip with Non Slip Grip! *big big grin*

The focal is something I have made in year 2009, a stud that I have conceptualized for a friend but it never did materialized, she didn't like it, and I didn't have time to revisit the design then later, we lost touch. I hope she is well, though.

So here, inspired by mgypsy's Little by Little studs, I made this very cute hair pin for my 6 months old. :) This is the first time I am making a hair clip, I hurt my wrist and I almost can't operate that hot glue gun (yes, using hot glue gun for the first time too yay!)

I can't be knowing everything! So here's the instruction I have followed, Simple Bow Hair Clips (with non-slip grip) by Ashley @ Make-it-love-it.

I bought my ribbons and bare hair clip from DIYHairBows.com, non-slip grip, hot glue gun and glues from Mr. DIY store (local store in our neighborhood).

My bare hair clip is 2" long, so the ribbon has to be about 4.5"; the grip's measure 1cm X 3.5cm, and the green ribbon is about 3" (I forgot to take note! I will in the next attempt!)

Ashley's instruction is very easy to follow, you should also be trying it out yourself. :)

Here's how it look on my baby's head. :D

Hope you have fun viewing, and eventually, trying. :D


Corra @ de Cor's Handmades