Hello September

Forget-Me-Knot Earjacket Earrings and JiaSha Bracelet

You are finally here, my beloved September! ☺️

Lots to do for this month hey, and I am all ready!

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JiaSha Celtic Knot Jewelry Collection Video / Slideshow

I finally have time to digg out most of my JiaSha Celtic Knot Jewelry pieces photos and put them together to make a slide show for your viewing pleasure.

How Ihave missed being productive in jewelry making.
So my new year resolution for year 2013: Create more jeweleries. :)


So long, year 2012, it had been fruitful! Hello year 2013, I anticipate more great stuff to come! :)

Last but not least, I would like to wish you and you family have a wonderful year ahead!

Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

JiaSha Trio Necklace, Wired Chinese Knot Jewelry

 

♥ R E S E R V E D ♥
Custom order.

Fine Art Jewelry, Wired Chinese Knot.
100% Handcrafted.
All metal are 92.5 sterling silver.
Weight: 11.5gram in total.
Tall: 2.8cm including bail
Wire: 9cm at it’s widest measure.
Materials: Sterling Silver wires, garnet round beads and garnet teardrops.

 

Technique: JiaSha knot pendant (DCH012)

Corra @ Malaysia

Prototype – JiaSha Trio necklace

 

Custom Order – and this is the prototype piece. So now I have JiaSha series set! :P

Material: Artistic wires, black gunmetal chain and garnets (rounds and teardrops).

I use Artistic Wires for all prototyping my orders, and as soon as I would like to start the project I realized I’ve ran out of one of the most important material – 24ga wires. Freaked out! I have promised my client by weekend I will be able to show the prototyped piece! So I went over to http://beading.my, one of my favorite supplier, to see if they have 24ga, and then it says it’s all sold out. PANICKED! I text Steve from http://beading.my to see if he can source me some anyway, I texted him instead of call – cause it was already very late at night, I think it’s almost 11pm when I texted. He rang me up in less than 1 minute, and I told him what I need and need them urgently – gratefully, he told me he kept some. THANK GOODNESS!

So it will take one day if he were to send them via post to me, I decided to pay a visit physically (for the first time after he’d shifted) the next day. And then this is what I saw:

It was Ms. Mastura running a class! My heart was deeply touched when I see this – they are all paying their full attention creating TOGETHER! Ms. Mas is great, she’s so soft spoken and I can barely hear anything, and no I didn’t say Hi to them, I WAS TOTALLY SHY!!! And didn’t want to interrupt the class!

 

I think you crafters in Malaysia should really pay a visit there – it’s a cozy place that you will want to be there and be with people that shares the same interest. I am very comfortable in there and I didn’t leave immediately after getting what I need, I walk around places and chit-chat with Steve and Icyy, I even found out that Iccy and I had a common friend! All in all, it was a good good experience – I trust everything happened for it’s reason! I almost being thankful for running out of 24ga wires LOL!

 

Happy a good weekend folks!

- Corra @ Malaysia -

JiaSha Knot Necklace - Swarovski Tanzanite teardrop beads and New Figaro Chain, Wired Chinese Knot

 

 

 

♥ R E S E R V E D ♥
Listed and SOLD at http://decors.ArtFire.com.
Custom order. I am putting in this line as she requested:

"Purchase by a repeat buyer - who developed an unhealthy addiction to chinese-knot jewellery!"

LOL!

Fine Art Jewelry, Wired Chinese Knot.
100% Handcrafted.
All metal are sterling silver, the simple yet elegant design goes well with semi-formal to formal outfit.
Weight: 6.3gram in total.
Tall: 4cm including bail
Wire: 1” at it’s widest measure.
Materials: Sterling Silver wires, Sterling Silver Round beads, Swarovski Tanzanite teardrop beads.

This is the first time I’ve ever cut a chain, featuring JiaSha knot pendant, and handcrafted the eye and the clasps for the chain – the chain is 17” long, and the eye is attach at its 16”, I attach another Swarovski Tanzanite teardrops to make this necklace sexy. :)
Hope you have fun viewing!
-Me-

White JiaSha Earrings, Wired Chinese Knot

♥ R E S E R V E D ♥ M A D E - T O - O R D E R ♥
Specially made for someone who hadn’t spend anything on jewelry for his wife for past 12 years. *~GLARE~*

LOL!
This item is available in my Etsy and ArtFire.
Fine Art Jewelry, Wired Chinese Knot.
100% Handcrafted.
All metal are sterling silver, the simple yet elegant design goes well with casual to semi-formal outfit.
Weight: 2.4gram each, 4.8gram in total.
Tall: 3cm including ear wires
Wide: 2.5cm
Material: Sterling Silver, white Swarovski Crystal Pearls, rock crystal.

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-

Classic PIPA Pendant with Little Black Dress, JiaSha with Amethyst Earrings, Wired Chinese Knot

*Cough Cough*
A happy innovator I am, featuring JiaSha Earrings and PIPA Pendant. I put on my own little black dress to take this photo shoot for a preview for it’s owner, because this pendant is meant to go with a little black dress for a formal occasion.

Item listed and sold @ ArtFire!

Fine Art Jewelry, 100% Handcrafted.
Signature Design @ de Cor's.
This is a 2 in 1 design, you can wear it with the frame or without. This order is specifically made for a formal function and it is designed to go with the pendant owner's Little Black Dress, hence the pendant came with that beautiful a necklace featuring semi-transparent ribbon and leather cords.

Weight: 3.3gram
Earrings measure 3cm from ear wires, 1.8cm at its widest measure.
All metal are Sterling Silver (92.5)
Material: Cubic Zirconia, Swarovski Crystal.

Thanks for visiting! And hope you enjoy your week!
-Me-

JiaSha Earrings with Obsidian

   

Commissioned piece. JiaSha earrings with blue obsidian it is.

To learn to make this, here’s Jia-Sha Pendant tutorial.

If I don’t see you again, Happy Chinese New Year, and Happy Valentine’s Day! :)

 

 

-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.

Multi-purpose stick

Happy New Year! :)

Was experimenting on this stick with wire weaving plus JiaSha knotting, I see room for improvement, of course. This stick measures 5” long (excluding the heart-shape portion), perfect to use it as hair/shawl stick, as well as bookmark (sorry folks, I am a book person!)

I will find time to finalize the design soon, meanwhile, I hope you like this new stream. :)

 

P/S As much as I appreciate the increasing tutorial request in JewelryLessons.com, the tutorial can only be found on my official Site, Etsy, ArtFire. Thank you very much for looking!

-Me-

JiaSha Bracelet had been accepted!

Today I’ve got a notification from craftgawker, that my JiaSha bracelet had been accepted for admission at craftgawker.com! ^___^

Listing: #7930.

To check out what craftgawker is, read it through here. :)

 

Again, thank you very much for accepting all my submissions so far! And dear readers – you know what you should to for more eye candies!

 

Happy weekend!

-Me-

JiaSha Bracelet, made with continuous JiaSha knots.

   

JiaSha Bracelet adorned with 3mm and 4mm garnet beads, and I made the same toggle clasps I’ve made before for the Story of “O” bracelet.
Download and learn how to construct this NOW: DHC012 Jia-Sha Pendant Tutorial.
So here it is, a JiaSha bracelet made with continuous JiaSha knots, and I almost see a matching JiaSha choker already. Time it’s always time, I need more time.

And by the way, have a happy Sunday.
-Me-