Oh my…

Dear everyone, please meet Huan Pham.
I was reading through the mails from WWJ Yahoo Group, read Anne’s E-mail, and then saw these wonderful, wonderful designs. (Thanks Anne!!!)
Believe it or not, ever since the unpleasant experiences I’ve had last year and early this year, I have developed a hand full of side-effects, one of them was – I can never able to look at a piece of beautiful/amazing jewelry art for too long. I would as if hear *those people* says:”what are you trying to do? Are you trying to steal???!!!”. LOL. So yeah, I’d close the browser and forget about what I’ve just saw and fortunately, I always have the ability forgetting what I want to forget (and frankly speaking this ability helps heap in terms of enabling me to do things differently every single time).
Just imagine me having to read back my own tutorial(s) in order to compose something I’ve composed/taught before. I forget, as soon as I wrote a tutorial, and then the learning –> developing –> teaching cycle restarts again. :)
So same thing happened when Huan Pham’s site loaded. My reaction was close the browser right away as though I’ve seen something horrible! But it’s too late – there ARE things in life that I won’t want to let go, like Huan Pham’s creations. I’ve already seen it, and I like it, and I do not want to forget about it. So I wrote Huan Pham a letter. I told him how I’ve found him, and I told him that I am blown away. Huan Pham wrote back the next day, telling me that he knew me (he knew me??? he knew me!!! Hear that, hear that!!!) via an Aussie Beading Forum, and he wouldn’t mind it at all if I were to write about him in my blog.
Right. Now here’s my confession.
I never able to spend too much time in a forum, be it my favorite Starving Artists Forum (I met most of my jewelry mates from this amazing forum, thanks to JenK! :) ) or this Aussie beading forum… I wished to have more than 24 hours a day, really, so that I could mingle around… but too bad, my dear readers. I would only try to keep in touch with people only when they go disappear for too long (you know who you are, i miss you.), and I start studying my fans only when I want to plan an event for the fan-club.
I am such an effortless @ss. But I hope you’d still love me.
Back to Huan Pham.
Observe the dragon he’d made. Amazing, ain't it? :) The nicest part of it is - I think I might be able to create a similar effect with knotting. Now you see why am I into knotting this much. Different gauge of wires, different directions of tying the knots and different color of the wires would fetch such a great different – and you will never know what will you be having in the end. I am very, very grateful to have meet Huan Pham, and I would like you to meet him too.
Big hugs to all of you, wish you have a happy weekend. :)
xoxo,
Corra

Learn to make coffee

Home Barista Institute @ Melbourne, photo taken last year @ 30th Sept 2008.

 

I am curious – what would you do if you found someone’s photographing you? How would you react? I hope you’d smile – I will make sure you’d look good through my lens. :)

The Details

Most of my designs/creations were really tiny – and yet I stress a lot on my creation’s “details”. I am not sure if you are able to tell the difference between these photos and what have been photographed before – I know I am very, very happy now with these pictures because, I, finally, am able to present you what valued most for my designs and creations - the “details”.

 

 

   PIPA Earrings

 

 

ZHU Studs

 

 

Passiflora Studs/ Post Earrings

 

 

Snowflakes’ Earrings

 

 

Friendship Band - Bracelet

 

 

Beaded Rosabella Pendant

 

 

The Square Post Earrings

 

Seriously, I hope you would love these pictures – and their details. :)

 

-Me-

Beaded Rosabella, Pendant.

I’ve got a mail asking me if it is possible to attach beads for this design. Now you have the answer. ;)

Tutorial: Rosabella Pendant.

Lots of Love, Pendant.

Combining two different knots – the three wires at it’s center are wrapped with knotting introduced in FriendshipBand Bracelet tutorial, and and I wrapped two wires in group with knotting that I’ve newly tested out.

 

Let alone those knottings, this is quite a cute pendant isn’t it? :)

 

Thanks for looking, and wish you have a pleasant week ahead!

-me-

It’s weekend again

Mom is sick, I’ve been with her in the hospital to keep her company for the passed few days. Her fever keep coming back with reason unknown. Poor her, shivering so badly when the fever hits her. They suspect it’s dengue, but the blood count said no, it could be something else, they said, it could be the newer generation of dengue, and now we are still waiting for the test result.

 

I left my earphone at home on purpose so I that won’t want any music, and since there’s no wifi around me hence I wasn’t connected to the internet, I can’t do anything but talk to my Mom when she’s not too tired, and I read when Mom goes to sleep…

 

Then I realize how much do I miss reading. :)

 

Anyway, It’s weekend tomorrow again – DH will wake me up with his home-made latte! ^^

 

Happy weekend all, and stay healthy!

Square Post Earrings/Studs

Bad weather over here and people fall sick for unknown reasons, I figure that nursing someone that’s sick is more tiring than falling sick myself, and heck, my throat is burning now. :(

 

Made this pair of earrings last night with a knotting that I haven’t tried before, it turned out pretty well, and I do hope you like it.

3cm tall, and 2cm at it’s widest measures.

Handmade Origami Appreciation Cards

 

My other passion. :)

Handmades Origami Uchiwa Appreciation Cards, attach it together when you ship your items to your customer – and they can use it as an excellent bookmark, too.

Will be listing it soon at my ArtFire store, do check it out soon.

The Ang Paos Winners and etc

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!!

Yes, I should have revealed the winner list for the give-away Ang Pao contest earlier, I really am sorry for keep you waiting for so long but I was REALLY busy after such long break! And hey, instead of selecting winners, I decided that everyone who have left a message for this post are eligible to take home with USD$5 worth of credit balance from me, looking at the list, we have 29 winners, so the USD$50 from me were for the Ang Pao, and the remaining are my gift to you as Valentine’s day present (though I am not sure if you would prefer having flowers instead LOL).

So here' s the Winner List (and dear readers if you know anyone of them please pass the message around for me incase they didn’t realize this!):

1. Lau Addiction (CLAIMED)
2. Poranna (CLAIMED)
3. Gaby Santiago (CLAIMED)
4. Melissa in NJ (CLAIMED)
5. Jenny Pong (CLAIMED)
6. Perri www.ShaktipajDesigns.etsy.com (Perri I don’t care I will come to you and force you to have my tutorial, good thing is you get to choose which! :P ) (CLAIMED)
7. Wendy Sue
8. Susyny2
9. ST (CLAIMED)
10. ShonaMac (CLAIMED)
11. ktdid1
12. Ingrid (CLAIMED)
13. ami (CLAIMED)
14. Sitha
15. SueS
16. Mei (WireBlissMei)
17. BobbiWired (Bobbi you will be getting my next tutorial for FREE I don’t care!)
18. Muddy
19. Barbara
20. heartdancr
21. colorsmiths
22. Nancy (Nancy you too will be the first to receive my next tutorial for FREE!)
23. preciously_p
24. Judy Whitfield
25. A Fly On The Wall (I like your nick Robyn, LOL!) (CLAIMED)
26. B3Boutique (CLAIMED)
27. L
28. Beaded Zen
29. Michelle

Terms and condition:

The USD$5 must be redeemed for TUTORIAL(S) ONLY at de Cor’s @ Artfire (I urge you to start visiting my ArtFire store because I ALREADY AM A VERIFIED USERS THERE! YAY!!!), towards the purchase of tutorial listed in de Cor’s Handmades online catalogue sold by de Cor’s Handmades. They cannot be redeemed at http://decors.etsy.com, http://decors.dawanda.com, http://jewelrylessons.com, or any of authorized dealer sites.

Alternatively just send me an E-mail to tell me which tutorial you would like to have.

The USD$5 cannot be used to pay for de Cor’s Handmades Gift Certificates.

The USD$5 has no cash redemption value and is not transferable or assignable.

Any unused balance will be placed in the recipient’s gift certificate account.

If the order exceeds USD$5, the balance must be paid by paypal.

USD$5 and unused portions of USD$5 expire one year from the date of issue, where permissible under applicable law.

Normal de Cor’s Handmades terms and conditions of purchase and for using the de Cor’s Handmades website apply.

Additional Information:

For those who already have ALL of my tutorials, please do me a favor by sending me an E-mail, too, I will put you into my spreadsheet so that you will be receiving my next new tutorial for FREE (regardless of it’s price).

Last but not least, I am still in the midst of listing products in ArtFire so you might not see all items I have, but I do hope you would get your desired tutorial through there if possible. Just proceed with the purchase and make payment – I will refund you the balance minus off the USD$5 later. For the item you wish to have but didn’t see it there in ArtFire, kindly E-mail me so that I could quickly make it available for you.

Once again I thank you very much for stopping by, and thank you for your support and I wish you have a peaceful Valentine’s Day this Saturday (and believe it or not I had never celebrated Valentine’s day, ever. :P)

I hope you like this offer. Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

xoxo

-Me-

Rosabella Earrings for the Spring

Technique: Rosabella Pendant Tutorial.

The greens and the blues are supposed to introduce the smell of spring to the creation. Enjoy!

 

-me-

MINI TUTORIAL - STEP BY STEP WIRE JEWELRY - Rosabella Pendant, DCHMT006

Tutorial-DCH016: Rosabella Pendant
Level: Beginner

Learn to create this beautiful Rosabella Pendant on the fly! This tutorial is categorized under Mini Tutorial Series.

This tutorial caters for all level of people who does wire jewelry. The tutorial delivers 6 simple steps to create this pendant, learn this to create them as a valentine's gift that everyone would wear on daily basis!

PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THE "ALL 8 TUTORIALS" and "ANY 3 TUTORIALS" packages does not include this tutorial.

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

DISCLAIMER:
Using jig will help producing more consistent result for this design. I use WigJig Centaur in this project.

Introduction:
There are total of 6 steps in making this pendant, to deliver the clearest instruction, the beautifully taken 38 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 Rosabella Pendant.

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: 516KB

Related articles:
1. Rosabella Pendant (First published in Dec 2008)
2. Rosabella Ring (First published in Dec 2008)

Back in action!!!

Hello, I am finally back from the South!!! I had so much fun in Singapore, great, great weather (I always thought SG is warmer than KL!), had too many good food, bought too many pretty stuff and most importantly, had too many good coffee!! OMG they have good coffee!!

Jones the Grocer

I love Jones the Grocer though they can’t make good bacon, but their coffee were great that’s all matters.

Bukonero

Someone cancelled their booking at Bukonero, so we get to go in there for dinner! Just a gentle head up for your if you are dining in - Photography is strictly prohibited in there though I don’t understand why, what’s the big deal really? Shouldn’t they be honored because someone is going to do a free advertising for them? :D Anyway I took this picture using my mobile phone and then I got warned by the restaurant owner. :(

Saddle club

Saddle club for breaky – Someone recommended that place, the ambience and the greeneries were great, but IMHO you could skip this and save your stomach for something else – they served cold latte, watered down Americano and poor hot chocolate – big, big disappointment!

Valentino

Valentino – very nice pasta and Risotto! Coffee not as great so you could make it a pass if you have daily coffee quota… (More pictures next time around, stay tuned! :D)

Highlander Coffee

It’s a pity that I didn’t get to find out more coffee available in Singapore, but this is the greatest so far I’ve had in the SG land. :)

WigJig

And I even found Wigjig Centaur (recommended by Ms. Perri) there. Apparently it’s cheaper for us Malaysian to get it from Singapore as compared to getting it shipped from the States. It’s USD$46 (shipping not included) from Wigjig’s website, I got it for SG$68 from Beads Etc. Not cheap at all, I do hope its a right decision to have bought it! :D

Driving home… :D

It’s such a great long break to me and I am all ready to create new stuff soon. Check back often for updates! :)

Happy weekend!

-Me-

Random Updates

I’ve been missed! LOL!! Thank you for writing to me (you know who you are!!!), I am doing just fine – been visiting and being visited, spending ALOT of time with family and friends, and thought I’d just quickly post some photos just to keep you updated with what I’ve been up to!

New bag by SHINZABURO from sister in law – my current favorite!!

 

MIL’s handmade’s deco – she is the master of all these, I shall take more photos of her pretties soon!

 

One of the reunion dinner – The dish in the center is called “Lou Sang”, we are supposed to mix and mess the dish up and yell out loud of the best wishes while we do that! :D

 

Flower tea – After dinner

 

And we have been on wines and cheese EVERY NIGHT for the passed one week.

 

It’s such a good catch up that we decided that we should extend the CNY visiting to another country for this coming week – so yes, I will be out from my country for the next couple of days, but we are going to stay in and will still be connected to the internet - so your purchase will still be attended. :P

 

Please drop a comment to win an Ang Pao if you not already have – the contest will be officially closed on the 15th day of Chinese New Year, which is on the 9th February 2009. Good Luck and I will back in action soon!

 

Many hugs,

-Me-