Lilyv

Chinese tend to read their supposedly fortune during Chinese New Year celebration, for as much as I would have ignored the commonly practiced activity, information reached out their ways from radios/ TVs and forwarded E-mails. So I’ve been advised to wear something round with diamonds last year, and my youngest brother was watching that TV show with me that moment. He’d asked if I could make something like that, I remember I said “shouldn’t be a problem.” He smiled, and said if I ever made one of those, he would want something like that, but for man, too.
Well, I WAS serious about making such thing is POSSIBLE, what I did not tell him was for as much as I have visualized it in my mind there and then, the conclusion I made was – too hard. I won’t want to start this unless 1) I am absolutely free and bored, 2) it is 100% necessary.
A little background of how this thing came about again after one year.
A friend requested for a pair of ROSE studs, and as I was making the stud base, she requested to have diamonds surrounding it. Hmm. Surrounding diamonds again. Well to cut it short, that request somehow reminded me that I do have a NEED to create something truly for myself, for an event happening this coming Saturday, and as I put the ROSE studs on hold for now since there are flaws needs to be fixed (I can’t figure out how yet), I jumped in for this project for myself. Yes you heard me right – this is something truly for myself. A total different approach of attaching diamond cuts Cubic Zirconias as compared to ROSE studs, another round of lots of trials and errors, too many wires and finger skins gone to waste. And now I am think I am done with this.

Personally, I am super satisfied with this pair of earrings. Do you watch Gossip Girl? I seriously think this IS something Lillian van der Woodsen a.k.a Lily would wear! *BIG BIG GRIN* – so now you know how the name “Lilyv” come about!

Hope you enjoyed viewing!
Have a great week ahead!
-Me

張三丰的智慧

[There are some terms can’t be translated into English and hence I am posting this entry in Chinese language. In short, the lesson learnt from this project is to forget everything I’ve learned about wires and knots, then let the new wires and knots surprised me in the end. The first picture shows the ROSE stud I have had in mind for a longest time and finally made, and the second picture shows the outcome after much of the brain-storming sessions with Christine. I like this kind of new sparks, and I appreciate all of the input she’d shared. :)]

童年時看梁朝偉在《倚天屠龍記》演出張無忌一角，其中最記得的，就是張三丰一面在教，一面又要人完全忘記的那幕。
我再也沒有比現在更能明白箇中道理的時候了。
用金絲銀綫創作，日子久了，於是對材料的習性了如指掌，這本來該是件好事，我一直覺得，只要熟悉了材料的能為與不能為，便能在創作時得心應手。我一直這樣相信，直到最近此等説法終于被我自己推翻。
與一位不諳首飾創造的朋友共同商討打造一枚首飾，竟讓我有了意外啓發：因爲我對金絲銀綫非常熟悉，加上“人”無可避免的惰性，潛意識總是讓我自然而然地從錯綜複雜的設計繞道而過，因而限制了創作能力。第一張圖，是本來的設計；第二張，是經過商議以後幾番屢戰屢敗屢敗屢戰后做出的成品。

原來只有盡量忘記所知所學、放空自己，才能像已然干透的海棉吸取水分。
與你，共勉之。
-Me-

Revised – Rose Surrounded by Diamond Cuts CZ Stones, Studs

Pretty much got this finalized. I’ve replaced the stones I’ve used in the first attempt to give it a more steady finish.

 

Learn the technique to make this: Rosabella Pendant & ROSE Pendant tutorial.

Looking for Cubic Zirconias I was using? It’s available HERE.

Hope you like it!

-Me-

Rose Stud with CZ

ROSE stud surrounded by Cubic Zirconias.
I like working with Christine – it was her idea to replace the focal stone with Swarovski Crystal Pearl (Gold), and surround the Rose with sparkling stones after I’ve told her the stud base is extendible.
I value constructive feedback, I am more than willing to take up new challenges and I am thrilled seeing the result.
:)
Learn the technique to make this: Rosabella Pendant & ROSE Pendant tutorial.
Looking for Cubic Zirconias I was using? It’s available HERE.

Happy weekend all.
-Me-

Oh my poor fingers: ROSE Stud {Colour Mixing}

Seriously, what do you think? I think the goldish made the texture shout, I think it is gorgeous, I think it made the details even more…visible!

Again this is yet another experiment piece – putting silver and goldish metal together. Unfortunately the half-hard non-tarnish brass simply isn’t right for this design, my poor fingers, though I might eventually make a pair for myself for keepsake.

There…. Observe my finger – those aren’t dirt, it’s my dead skin, I’ve made the stud last night and this picture is captured this morning, I thought my finger is sending me some sort of signal/warning. I think I should ditch this idea haha. I need be kind to my fingers so that I could create more! :P

 

What ya think?

Learn the technique to make this: Rosabella Pendant & ROSE Pendant tutorial.

Happy weekends all!!!

-Me-

ROSE Studs

This is a commissioned piece, still in prototyping and proof-of-concept stage.

The mission is to turn ROSE design into studs, and boy it is difficult. Anyway I am glad that I’ve at least made it to the success, though there are room for improvement and to be refined.

I will post the finalized piece if there is any, so check back soon!

 

Learn the technique to make this: Rosabella Pendant & ROSE Pendant tutorial.

Happy Friday all. :)

-Me-

Jane’2010

Gold is IN now, isn’t it, people? :)

This is a commissioned piece. Totally handmade including the ear wires. These pretties had just been delivered to the buyer – a birthday gift from her to her sister, her birth stone is Garnet. :)

 

Materials:

Garnet Briolette, Garnet round beads.

All metal are non-tarnish brass.

 

Thank you for looking, and I hope you enjoyed viewing!

-Me-

Multi-purpose Stick (Round)

I am using this as bookmark now, and I am loving it. :)

By the way, found a new way to attach the Diamond Cut Cubic Zirconia with wires! Will try to include that into future tutorial if there is any! :)

 

-Me-

Me and my JiaSha Earrings

That’s me at work, playing around with Hyper-V and colleague S came by to help, as I was testing it he took out his camera to test shoot – so this is me with my JiaSha earrings. :)

Download and learn how to construct this NOW: DHC012 Jia-Sha Pendant Tutorial.

Christmas @ Sing-a-pore!

So i went down to Singapore for Christmas - stay calm, Singaporeans, I didn’t join the crowd in O.Road, I wasn’t one of those 60 000 folks on the street that night.

It’s an escape for myself and hubby from the hectic KL life, and the itinerary says it’s a “Eat and Get Fat Trip”. We left KL at 8pm last Wednesday and arrived SG at 12-ish in a.m. Then stayed there til 28th Dec 2009.

Here’s some thing to share:

Christmas Eve – instead of count down with the anonymous, we stayed home and had home cook. Yum!

P.S. Cafe – don’t go, too expensive, and they will give you mosquito repellant if you complain there’s mosquito, and it cost us SGD$165 for 5 person for those bacon-sausage-pancake breakfast, and did not taste extraordinarily nice.

 

 

And something cool I think you might love to know:

Durian puff - SGD$32 for 20 pieces, eat this when it’s not stone cold, it’s de-li-cious!

And this – The most expensive truffles I’ve tasted ever, SIL bought it unintentionally, and hence we get to eat them. You don’t want to know it’s price. :P

So now we are back to where we were, feeling totally recharged, I think everyone should go on a holiday, be free from internet and the city, be absolutely free from people except for family as well. :)

 

-Me-