Earrings

Zanzibar - mismatched (semi-assymetrical) earring pair

Left earring:

Vintaj brass earring hook

Brass flower link

Sky blue dimpled ceramic bead - ChelleV2

Light blue edged ceramic raku heishi bead - Jubilee

Horn bead

Antiqued golden leaf

Oxidized brass wire

Right earring:

Vintaj brass earring hook

Brass flower link

Brass spacer disc bead

Vintage ivory with gold lucite bead

Light blue edged ceramic raku heishi bead - Jubilee

Skye blue and bronze lampwork glass - Gardanne

Antiqued golden flower

Oxidized brass wire

(Please note that the Zanzibar earrings are a bit on the slightly heavy side, and I would not recommend them for everyday casual use, but more for evening wear or special occasions.)

Black & Fun - two pairs of earrings (sold separately)

Handmade almond shaped rosey copper earring hooks - E2SSupplies

Enameled copper head pins - PaintingWithFire
Black tabular resin squares 7-8mm
Colored seed beads

(These on the other hand are very lightweight.)

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All my jewelry is available for purchasing, even though I might not yet have listed them in my Etsy Shop. Please let me know if you are interested in any of them. Contact me at:
malindekoning[at]hotmail.com
:-)

All my best
Malin

I have copied Gaea!

Hi,

I have participated in Gaeas challenge "Copy Me".

So this is what I made. I believe I have stayed rather true to the original, if I compare with what some of you others have done.

I got the idea almost immediately. To exchange the chain and the tag with a bent wire forming the words "dreams". And started scetching and then bending the wire.

Now you know why I HAD to buy an anvil recently.

If you look thouroughly at the pictures it is clear that at the first part of the bracelet I was a total rookie at hammering on wire, but that I gradually got better, and at the last letter I was a pro. :-)

Great fun it was! And I keep hammering whenever I get the chance.

Here is a list of some more people who has participated:

Lorelei

Michelle

Erin

For My Sweet Daughter

SueBeads

Spirited Earth

Malin de Koning

Imaginative Jewelry

Also check out Gaeas blog for more info.

Out Of Africa. And I am in need of some advice!!

Bracelet "Out of Africa". With 3 kinds of gemstones:

1. Beautiful, wonderful and rustic dark purply brown Pietersite, from Namibia. (I loooove these beads. I ordered the last 9 ones left in the shop of StarEyes yesterday.)

2. Light opal green Prehnite sidedrilled irregular tabs, from South Africa.

3. Facetted rectangular Pink Quartz.

Copper Toggle Clasp

Giraffe charm in copper

Peace charm in copper

One czech square glass bead in brown picasso

Oxidized copper wire for all the wire wrapping

Advice me please:

Now, I listed this bracelet in my Etsy shop yesterday. I chose this photo above as the main one, the one that will show up in the searches. But even I, at first, couldn't spot my own bracelet among the other things when I was doing a search. Too pale and uninteresting, I guess it just kind of dissapears in the crowd. It is a big shame, because the bracelet is truly beautiful if I may say so myself. The colours and the shapes work so perfectly together. So now I wonder if I should choose another photo as the main one. And should I take away the peace charm and only leave the giraffe one?

Below you can see a few more photos. Which one of these would you choose as the main one for the Etsy listing? Or should I choose another one all together?

And look at this one: This morning I took one of the other photos, and I enhanced the saturation just very slightly. Should I do that to all the pictures? It actually gives a more true picture of reality.

Thank You so much for all opinions!

2 new pieces of jewellery by me

Necklace with rondelle beads by Heather Powers of Humble Beads and candy Jade. Copper findings and circular copper chain.
Earrings. Czech glass beads, cut to 3-sided, in green and two shades of turqouise and a bit of picasso finish. Brass findings and wire.

Bracelet - Copper & Lime

Copper rounds

Copper wire links

Lime green triangular glass beads