Today's Treasury: AquaViolet

Today's treasury has a favorite color combination: aqua and violet. While they are not complimentary colors, and as someone who loves op art and vibrant colors, it pleases my optic nerves because the color combination pops off the page.

Please come take a look at it, maybe click the items to look at them, and comment, if you're so inclined. You can find it here, before it's retired.

And as always, you may find our jewelry store at www.AdornMeJewelry.etsy.com. :)

Treasured Rose, A Romantic Era Necklace

Beautiful celluloid roses, oh, how I love thee!

The focal point of this one of a kind, Romantic period necklace is a gorgeous baby blue lucite rose. It is combined with 8mm Aquamarine Celsian Czech glass melon beads, and a fat wire-wrapped, faceted aqua quartz briolette. This is a necklace to treasure.

The colors in these melon beads are dreamy. Aquamarine and teal mix with golden greens in ways that make it hard for me to look away (I've already admitted here that I'm a magpie, so no surprise!). The cherry on the sundae is the light luminous iridescent they have, so that they glow and pick up the light to stunning advantage.

The melon beads travel up the necklace about 4 1/2" on each side, and then antiqued brass chain takes over and meets in the back, with a lobster claw clasp, as well as a brass hand that says "hand made" and a wrapped, matching melon bead.

The necklace is about 18 1/2" in length, but can be made longer or shorter at your request.

We have several other lovely necklaces featuring these roses, in different colors, as well as flower rings on filigree bases, and a lime-colored rose bracelet. More bracelets are on their way!

Just so you know, I bought the rose from Wendy and the beads from Gwynne. If you're unsure of who Wendy and Gwynne are, see this journal entry.

To go to the page for this item, click here. To see all of the other rose and flower items in my store, click here.

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Black Lilies

Can something be cute yet elegant at the same time? Yes, and this pair of earrings could be described that way.

These Black Lilies earrings, an original creation by James, are made with gunmetal findings, which nicely compliment the black Czech glass three-petal lily beads. Above them are aqua Czech glass bell flowers, and below are Siam swarovski crystals. Their simplicity is very attractive, and makes them capable of being compatible with a number of different kinds of outfits.

The Black Lilies are 1 1/4" long, including the wire, and they sell for $13.50, plus a reasonable shipping fee. They can be purchased by using the contact form at www.adornmejewelry.net.

Blooms and Leaves

Flowers are a theme that has been looming large lately at Adorn Me, and this is one more pair. They are not elegant, and are not little-black-dress material, but they are fun and pretty.

Large brass kidney ear wires hold these light burnt orange acrylic flowers, topped by golden Czech beads. Below the flowers dangle bi-color Czech glass leaves held in place with nice little brass head pins. Topping this all off are a couple of matching Czech seed beads strung on the ear wires. They are almost 3" in length, including the ear wires, and are shown, for scale, with a quarter.

These hand-crafted earrings can, and will, be made in a variety of colors, which from the left are deep aqua, light aqua, light burnt orange, light olive green and pale yellow. They will all have complimentary leaves and Czech glass seed beads.

These pretty, playful earrings fetch $14.00, plus a reasonable shipping fee, If you are interested in this pair of earrings, or a pair in any of the variety of colors, you can drop me a line by using the contact form at www.adornmejewelry.net.

Bluebells

This is a pair of big, aqua glass bluebells on big, brass kidney ear wires.
The complimentary pairing of aqua Czech glass bluebells with peridot swarovski crystals really works on these hand-crafted earrings.

The flowers are held together by brass headpins and are almost half an inch tall, while the ear wires are about 1 1/4" long. These earrings are substantial without being heavy, and the catch the light prettily. Having relatively short hair, I really like my earrings to hang down below my hair and catch the light; these are great for that.

In the last photo, you can get a sense of the scale of them as compared to a quarter. Canadian quarters and American quarters are the same size.

These pretty, playful earrings fetch $15.50, plus a reasonable shipping fee, and can be purchased by using the contact form at www.adornmejewelry.net.

Custom Designs - Art Nouveau Tulips

The tulips are popular. We have received several special orders for them, and they are fun to make. They all sell for $26.50.

The first pair is different from the others in that the ends dangle, and also, they are antiqued silver over brass, and have sterling silver ear wires and wires at the end.

They include iridescent silvery fresh water potato pearls, tanzanite swarovski crystals, frosted grape Czech glass and pretty little minty rice-shaped Czech glass partially coated with vitriol. They are a total of 3" long, including ear wires. Oh, and you should know, all of the tulip earrings have a lovely tinkling sound when they move. If you love that, these are for you. If you hate it, we have many other designs.

The rest of the photos are just to show some of the possible options.



Iridescent brassy fresh water potato pearls and AB swarovski crystals.











Spring colors in bloom. This pair have strawberry baby bell flowers with aqua swarovskis and some more of those little minty vitriol-encrusted Czech glass beads. On hoops.



















Grape Czech glass flowers with golden baby bell flowers and peridot swarovski crystals, on hoops.

Two new pair of earrings.

Of course people have varying preferences when it comes to earring length and weight, so I try to satisfy that by making a variety. Lately I've had a long-earring-jones, so I made two pair that are quite substantial, being a bit over 2" long.

"Springtime" is the name of the first pair.

This last Winter was a pretty severe one. Spring comes and it's like waking up from a slumber. These earrings express some of that joy of color and vibrant awakening.

These earrings are are about 2 1/8" long, from where the ear wire ends and the drop begins. They are made from two lampwork barrel beads with flower designs in shades of reds and pinks, white and aqua embedded in green apple glass. The beads are nestled between two silver accent beads and little turquoise seed beads.

Dangling from them are silver-wrapped 4mm garnet coin beads, peridot nuggets, white freshwater pearls and more seed beads. The ear wire is sterling silver.

These next earrings are called "Still Waters."

I tell you, these were the hardest darned earrings to shoot and try to represent accurately. They are made of large pieces of faceted quartz in the most delicate, watery aqua color, and they just kind of washed out under the lens of the camera.

These earrings are 2 1/4" long from the beginning of the drop to the bottom-most beads.

There is a hole in the upper third of the beads, from which dangle varying lengths of delicate sterling silver figaro chains.

At the end of each chain are silver-wrapped freshwater pearls, copper seed beads, peridot nuggets, turquoise seed beads, as well as 4mm aurora borealis and aqua bi-cone swarovski crystals. They're great on someone with short hair, and feel very swaggy. Not for sale, as these are sold.