Collector's Style

I’ve revisited my past bracelet designs (Amethisa, Karina and Aquatica) that feature several shapes/types of Swarovski crystals in a variety of colors and sizes. This bracelet is composed of Twist Bead (5621), Cosmic Bead (5523) and Cubist Bead (5650) – all in crystal copper color; plus Round Bead (5000) in red and Bicone Bead (the old type 5301) in greens to accentuate.

　
I’m sure I’m not the only one who adores the sparkle of Swarovski crystals and this kind of design is a great way to fulfill one’s wish or need to collect any shapes, sizes and colors of the crystals.

Fall Party

Again… I have another project published in Stringing magazine, issue Fall 2010.


These earrings appear on one of the mag’s earrings gallery pages and I think the design is pretty straightfoward to reflect the characteristics of fall. The colors bear earthy warm tones in copper/brown, orange and yellow (not really shown in the photo) with a little drop of pink. The leaves are the ultimate sign of what normally happens in this season: leaves turn orange/red/yellow/brown and start to fall from trees.


Initially, the earrings were intended to be worn together with this necklace. Only because I didn’t have flower charms or beads that might go well with the flower-motif lampwork beads, I used leaf charms as my last resort. This minor discrepancy was I thought acceptable because leaves and flowers shared the same theme: plants. So when both earrings and necklace were worn, they would still look in harmony.

By the way, if you take a closer look at the necklace, it actually has a rich color combo. Gold, bronze, orange, yellow, copper, red, brown and pink. Perfect for a party in fall!