A few new pieces for July

Large bright faceted pink Candy Jade is wire wrapped and topped with a cascade roped sterling silver and small keishi (petal) pearls and topped with a swarovski crystal. length is 1 1/2 inch from bottom of sterling ear wires.

Chunky Freshwater white pearls are wire wrapped with oxidized sterling silver wire and dangle from a detailed oxidezed ring and ear wires. Length is 1 1/4 inch from bottom of ear wire.
*all sterling is oxidized naturally not with chemicals.

Pale lavender Chalcedony is wire wrapped with sterling silver and dangle beneath a sterling silver twisted bead encased with lavender crystals. Lenght is just under 1 1/2 inch.

Swarovski crystals and brass findings dangle from Vintage sterling ear wires.. Length from bottom of ear wire is 1 1/4 inch.

New Chandelier Earrings!

New Chandelier Earrings, you can see more views and prices at http://obtp.etsy.com/

" Water Fall Chanderlier Earrings "

"Cascade Chandelier Earrings"

"Desire Chandelier Earrings"
"Chamelot Chandelier Earrings"

Temporarily Closing My Shop 30% off everything!!!!!!!!

I recently started a great new full time job and I'm finding it hard to keep up with making new jewelry, taking pictures and posting them, so I've decided to take a few months off. I will be closing my shop from Memorial day to Labor day so I can spend time with my family and be outdoors in my yard and garden during the nice weather.

That being said I am marking down all my items 30% I will be more than happy to send you a PayPal credit or email me prior to your purchase and I will mark it down then.

Here is a list of what the prices will be:
$55 = sale $38.50
$42 = sale $29.40
$40 = sale $28.00
$35 = sale $24.50
$30 = sale $21.00
$28 = sale $19.60
$25 = sale $17.50
$22 = sale $15.40
$20 = sale $14.00
$18 = sale $12.60
$15 = sale $10.50
Terri

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New Fall Jewelry!!

This is my new fall jewelry set called "Fall in New England". I used Fancy Jasper faceted rondell stones in 3 sizes, 10, 8 and 6mm. I love the multi color variation in each stone. The colors range from pale green,olive green to a dark forest green, lilac to a deep mauve and pumpkin to brick red with many shades in between. The center of the necklace holds a sterling silver tea rose surrounded by small fancy jasper rondells.

The center of the necklace holds a sterling silver tea rose surrounded by small fancy jasper rondells. The length of this necklace is 18 1/2 inch and the earrings are 1 inch from the bottom of the ear wire. Please visit http://obtp.etsy.com to see more views of this piece and more Fall Jewelry.

Fall Bead Preview

I just bought some beautiful Crazy Blue Lace Agate and Faceted Fancy Jasper. These crazy agates look like a mix of oil and water in tones of blue, shades of green, brown and cream. It's very hard to make a perfect match with these but I'll give it my best.

These Fancy jasper beads remind me of New England foliage. Beautiful shades of green,mauve,brick, slate and more. I've decided to make just earrings with these beads, or at least that is my plan. Please visit my Etsy store for newly listed items made with these beads.

Did you play with marbles when you were young?

Well look what you can do with them as a big girl. These are 2 of my new earrings made with marble teardrops. These beads have a beautiful high polished shine to them.


The grey on these marble teardrops remind me of a thunder storm. With the shades of grey swirls and the crystal rondelle being a flash of lightening. These are great earrings to go from a day at work to a night out.




These marble teardrops have the same color as a terracotta clay pot with swirls of cream in them. They have a triangle sterling bead cap and are dangling from a freshwater brick colored pearl. I picture these paired up with a crisp white top and kaki pants.

Cocktails on Saturday

Well I finally got some time to put together these beautiful black and white earrings with my Petal Pearls (keishi pearls). As I was putting them together they just reminded me of a little black dress with white ruffles across the top. You know the kind you would wear to a cocktail party. This dress is from Nordstroms.

All Wrapped Up

I love wire wrapped jewelry. I think it gives just so much more detail to some pieces. But I just can't do it. I have tried and tried. This isn't a boo hoo me but I am just all thumbs. I have at least 5 books with step by step instructions. I have gone through so much wire practicing thank goodness I wasn't using sterling silver. I decided to look for some pieces that really caught my eye and these are just a few in my opinion that are absolutely beautiful. I hope you enjoy them!

I don't think I have ever seen anything so beautifully done! These earrings take my breath away. Xinxinemin has used so many different Gem Stone colors and shapes. I love the way she has made the different flowers out of them. There is even a butterfly!
xinxinemin states; These butterflies swing in and out when you move, looks that they are flying above flowers

Features Red Garnet, Pink Tourmaline, Green Amethyst, Violet Amethyst, Rose Quartz, Aquamarine, Blue Apatite, Green Apatite, Iolite, Lemon Quartz, Peridot, Citrine. All findings are sterling silver.

I just can't imagine doing all this work and it coming out as beautiful as these earrings. The detail is unbelievable and so neat, everything matches up so nicely! You can see this and more wire wrapped jewelry at Augusta's, Inspired designs to reflect your distinctive style.
Theses earrings from Augusta are Wrapped and hanging from the graceful wire wrapped scroll work are gorgeous, high quality pink amethyst briolettes. Simple, understated and elegant.These earrings have been oxidized, tumble polished, lightly hammered and buffed to a beautiful shine. The earrings hang 2 inches from hand crafted earwires.

I love the way the tourmaline rondelles are wrapped around to frame the faceted ruby drop (which is one of my favorite Gem Stones). And the way the golden tone of the Citrine and deeper almost bronze pearls cluster on top to show off the color of the Ruby.

This beautiful wire wrapped necklace is from Jewellery Haven, Ruby focal measuring 20mm x 11mm suspended in a 14k gold filled frame wrapped with lovely petro tourmaline roundelles. Cluster of gorgeous golden citrine, petro tourmaline briolettes and pearls sits above the ruby. Chain length approximately 17 inches.

Visit Jewellery Haven for more exquisite wire wrapped jewelry.

And last but not least the extent of my wire wrapping. Each Phrenite bead is wire wrapped at the top and attached to sterling silver chainand ear wires. I added some black swarovski crystals to bring out the black inclusions in the Phrenite.

New Beads Just In!!

I just got some new beads in , Labrdorite teardrops, Clear crystal quartz rondells, Bright red coral, Raspberry quartz, Smokey quartz faceted teardrops, a large blister pearl focal and sterling silver findings.

Sometimes when I get an order in there is so much in it that I get overwhelmed. It can take me up to a week or more before I can put any ideas together. But this time I went easy and bought just a few beads and already had ideas for them. Can't wait to get started!

Don't forget to check out my Etsy store for the new pieces!!

A little something about myself

Hi and welcome to my blog! I've had this blog for about 2 years now, but really only posted pictures of my jewelry on it. I have now decided to use it to promote my ETSY store and other Fellow Etsians.

I have been making jewelry for just about 25 years. I have always had a love for art and color and making jewelry gives me unlimited possibilities. When you start with just a few beads in various shapes, sizes and colors and come up with a piece that someone's buys is so amazing to me. Especially now seeing there are so many people out there that make jewelry.

My husband Jimmy has always been very supportive of me but of course not without all the jokes and comments most men would give. He recently he had a portion of our very old basement finished into a bead room for me. Ok, ok so it's a bead room/laundry room but we all know I'll be the only one ever to go in it. So consider it just mine.

This is where I do most of my work. I bought a very inexpensive folding craft table about $45. It has a couple of compartments that hold my jewelry tools such as pliers, wire cutters, ruler, bags and of course my remote for the T.V. I also have a 4 foot folding table for extra work space and it is high enough for storage underneath. The peg board was my husbands idea and boy what a great idea! I bought some metal pieces that fit in the holes and have very thin wooden dowels with (S) hooks to hold my strands of beads. They also hold bags if you use a hole punch.

The 2 ceramic mask on the wall are from the artistic side of my daughter Briana!

This is a 5 shelf bookcase that I bought at BigLots for $20. I keep all my shipping supplies, jewelry boxes, labels, books and odds and ends. This fits perfect in a space that otherwise would be wasted due to the hot water tank being right next to it on the left.

I have my niece to thank for this photo box. She is a photographer that works for the Providence Journal and is always snapping away. She said it would be perfect for me to take pictures of my jewelry. She told my husband about it and this is what he got me for Christmas. I read on an Etsy thread recently that these can be made out of a cardboard box and tissue paper. Not really sure what would be used for a light though.





This bookshelf is used to hold props for my pictures. A few necklace holders that I found at an antique shop some shells and starfish.