Snowflakes Earrings by Emily, Wired Chinese Knot

It was an ‘eventful’ week and weekend to me last week – first fell ill with burning throat and high fever, and then was informed by John, a dear friend who’d always proof read my tutorials before I’ve published them, with a news that one of my colleague, Eddy T, is diagnosed with H1N1. What he didn’t know was I actually bumped into Eddy on Sunday.
PANIC.
But since I was able to recover really quickly, doctor did not advise me to take a H1N1 test.
“If you’ve got it then the medication you have had would not work.”
That’s it. That’s all he said, and he granted me 2 days MC and that was it.
Phew. As I am recovering I hope Eddy recover soon, too.
Then, attended a seminar to help me to become a better person. :) Though I do check E-mails during breaks, I’ve got this mail from Emily, here’s what she said that made my day:

“
Hi Corra
How's everything at your end? I hope this mail will find you in the best of health and also I've been "following" you, so I know you've been real busy. You have a very nice smile in the picture that you posed in the LBD. (Emily, what is this??? LOL!!!)
Just a short email to let you know that I've tried out your Snowflakes Earrings. I tried many, many times and succeeded in completing not one but two pairs of it. I broke many pieces of wires along the way while trying to attach the beads and had to dump them. I got addictive after the first pair and proceeded to make the second one right after that. Wanted to make the third pair but I managed to stop my itchy fingers from going further. I can't find beads with big holes in my stash so I had to use bigger beads with bigger holes for the wires to go through twice.
Will make an attempt at your Jia Sha Pendant Tutorial sometime in the near future but first I have to get myself a drill.
By the way, am attaching here some pics of the Snowflakes Earrings to share with you.
Till then, have a wonderful and productive week ahead. Take care.
Emily Tan”

Tell ya what motivates me – this is exactly what could motivates me to continue to invent and teach! I am happy for Emily and I hope she sells tones of Snowflake earrings! And I don’t want anything from what my student gain from making and selling these designs for as long as they will create and sell them, just remember to give a tiny credit to me! Hehe!



Thanks Emily! :)
P/S More pictures on her site! So do pop-over and say Hi!
Hope you have a wonderful week ahead!
-Me-

Snowflakes Earrings, Purple Swarovski Crystal Pearls

 

Item available in my Etsy and ArtFire.

I can make them into the beads of your choice too. :)
Thanks for looking!

-Me-

Squarie | Studs

I chose Lilyv over this design for myself, so this is made before I’ve even finalized Lilyv. This is a prototype piece so please be gentle! :)
Learn the technique to make this: Snowflakes Earrings tutorial.

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

Snowflakes Studs, Wired Chinese Knot

 

Question: Is it possible to create a pair of studs earrings out from Snowflakes Earrings Tutorial that you’ve released for last year’s Christmas?
Answer: Of course.

In fact I have plans. A little something for you my dear readers, for those who have had the Snowflakes Earrings Tutorial since last year.
To make this pair of studs earrings, this is all you need to prepare:
Materials:

1. 2” of 20ga dead soft round wires
2. 7 X 2.5mm round beads (make sure the bead hole allows 20ga wires to go through)

Tools:

1. Round nose pliers
2. Flat nose pliers
3. Flush cutter
4. Ruler

Basic and Quick Instructions:
Step 1: Measure 1” from one end for both wires
Step 2: Make a cross and then insert one bead at each exit wires.
Step 3: Tie the Snowflakes knot as instructed in Snowflakes Tutorial.
Step 4: Now you will have 4 exit wires after tying the knot, choose ONE of the exit wires and fold it 90 degrees behind – this will become your post earrings wires. Measure 8mm for the rest of THREE exit wires and trim away the excess, use your round nose pliers to make a loop on each wires.
Step 5: Push each loop down to open them sideway, insert ONE bead to each loop. Push it back up to close the loop and you’re done.

Pretty simple isn’t it? I would love to spend more time creating more stuff but I really am very tight up recently, so I does everything in mind first. It took me 2 hours to visualize it in my mind before I execute it, and I’ve spent 30 minutes for the actual work, as what one of my very wise friend said: Everything that happens, happens two times, once in our mind and once when it happens because we made it happen. :)

Good luck, and say you love me!
-Me-

2 Hinged Cages and a Locket Tutorial By Bobbi

So here it is, Bobbi’s latest Wire Jewelry Tutorial that you never want to miss! 100% value add, the locket could have been another separate tutorial, but Bobbi didn’t. And did you realize the focal of the piece at top right in the first picture? As well as the one at bottom left? Yes, Snowflakes technique it is, loveeeeee how Bobbi bringing in stuff together! MUAH!!!

And… I really like this:

Bobbi definitely is an artist, an inventor, a trend maker...

Her blog entry: 2 Hinged cages and a Locket - Tutorial

Her Etsy Listing: New - 2 Hinged Cages and a Locket – Tutorial

Hope you have a great Tuesday!

xoxo,

-Me-

Midnight Sun, Wired Chinese Knot

 

Inspired by Stephenie Mayer’s abandoned project – “Midnight Sun”.

Extension from Snowflake Earrings, I merged it with Don Wright’s 12 point stars knotting (well, not quite, I modified it a little after all, but the basic was there) from Vince’s website (Thanks!). So if you have Snowflakes Earrings tutorial – go ahead and try this out!

I am a big fan of Twilight Saga, I read the books for more than 4 times in a month (I didn’t create anything the whole June 2009, remember?), and I watched the movie for more than 10 times, observing each and every pretty boy at a time in the show – I find Jasper is extremely hot, and have you ever realized he stares at Bella just as much as Edward Cullen? Heh!

 

I sincerely hope that Steph’d complete writing “Midnight Sun” one day, and soon. :) After all I love Edward Cullen the most!

 

Related Articles: CUBIC Series and Snowflakes Series

Have a great, great weekend all, it’s almost August now!

 

-Me-

Lunch @ Ninja Jones

photo courtesy by N.Choo @ June 2009 | Ninja Jones MidValley
Alright the reason why I posted this was – I was wearing my Snowflakes Earrings (design). :P

Come meet him!

Meet my nephew! (And my Snowflakes earrings!) XD

 

P/S Terribly busy with too many things at the same time, please check back from time to time!

 

Til then, take care!

 

-Me-

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-

Mocha Snowflakes Pendant, Wired Chinese Knot

It goes really well with gold chain!!
Matching pendant for Mocha Snowflakes Earrings.

Check out relevant tutorials:

1. CUBIC Earrings Tutorial [$9.95]
2. SNOWFLAKES' Earrings Tutorial [$7]
3. CUBIC & SNOWFLAKES' Earrings Tutorial Package [$15]

Thank you for looking!

Corra

Snowflakes' Earrings, Sterling Silver

This item is available at my ArtFire store at the moment.

Identical appearance from it's front and it's back. Absolute wearable fine art in it's super versatile design.

Weight: 1.1gram each
1.5cm tall without the ear wires, 1.5cm at its widest measure.

Materials:
* Sterling silver wires
* Sterling silver beads

*Today, less is more - today, I want it smart-casual, and low profile.

Check out relevant tutorials:

1. CUBIC Earrings Tutorial [$9.95]
2. SNOWFLAKES' Earrings Tutorial [$7]
3. CUBIC & SNOWFLAKES' Earrings Tutorial Package [$15]

Weekend random

Was out with friends for breaky on the Saturday morning (I know, majority of you all are having white Christmas, but it's WARM over here in Malaysia!), and took this picture of me - I was wearing the SNOWFLAKES' Earrings and the Flower pendant!

SNOWFLAKES’ Earrings & pendant: