Keep Busy, Blogging from Smartphone

This should keep me busy for many many hours. Lots and lots of Sparkly Rings are on the way.

I am testing out Blogger blogging app at the moment and if this post go live successfully, I may be using it a lot more in future.

The reviews on this app don't seems to be very positive so I am crossing my fingers and hope for the best.

Update: It works. I published successfully from my smartphone!

Happy Sunday my dear readers :)

Wire Wrap Porcelain Bead Pendant

How time flies.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is the 15th day i.e. last day of Chinese New Year.
In the last 15 days..... actually more than that, I have not touch my pliers, wires and stones.
I miss them of course.
They are just sitting there waiting for me.
Soon, soon! Coming soon.

This piece of wire wrap porcelain pendant was completed last month.
Simple coiling and wire wrapping.

Have a great weekend.

Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013

Finally an update and a belated Chinese New Year wish to all you readers out there.
The last day of my CNY holiday.
Back to work tomorrow.....but meself still in holiday moodleh.
Why do time seems to pass by faster when we are on holiday?
I am sure a lot of you feel the same way right...hehe.

Sharing with you the happenings during this year CNY celebration.
First of all...FOOD.
As usual the Fish Maw Soup, the main dish and my (and others) fav.

Prawns - for happiness and good fortunes

Children - for happiness, family unity and good fortunes (my own symbolism..hehe)
This is Abbie, all the way from Switzerland.
Henry's "1 Million Stars" little cousin sister.
The stars are Henry's own rating for cuteness.
Influenced by ratings given for apps.
Obviously 5 stars is not enough to describe her cuteness...

Children and fireworks.
This year the boys played lots of them - happiness.

Horsing! - happiness for Abbie.
She loves horsing around with the Kokos (brothers).

Hiyah! Look how fierce she is.

"1 Million Stars" cuteness.

The day after CNY Eve.
Red papers from the fire crackers.

Its hard to say goodbye to the "1 Million Star" after a week together.
Look how Henry is holding onto her....

I hope your CNY was a blast.

Should I or should I not?

The Valentine's Sales at my Artfire shop ended today.
Well, what can I say?
The sales is quite disappointing.
Maybe on my part I didn't do enough marketing.
Maybe people are not interested with DIY wire jewelry anymore, or maybe the market is saturated with too many projects? Or people just don't have the time.
I am contemplating shutting down my Artfire Shop.
It is not making enough to cover the monthly fee.

Do you have a store at Artfire?
How's your sales at Artfire?
If you have both Artfire and Etsy, which one is doing better?
I seems to get customers organically to my Etsy shop but not Artfire.
In fact, compared to Etsy, Artfire is easier to make purchase as it doesn't requires you to register.
Ermmm...wondering.....
Should I or should I not?

On another note, if you are still doing Valentine's shopping, and would like something different from Etsy and Artfire, you may want to check out Wholesale Jewellery. There is a section for Valentine's jewelry as well.

Before I sign off, here is a recently completed wire wrap New Zealand jade (or green stone) pendant for your inspiration.
This is done using the netted method similar to this turquoise pendant.
Love the green color.

Valentine's Sales Mode is on at My Artfire Shop - 25% Off

SALES Mode is back at my Artfire Shop.
25% off all Tutorials
Prices shown on the shop front are discounted price.
Just click to purchase - WireBliss Artfire Shop

I will email you the tutorial within 24 hours or less.

The sale ends 5th February.
Ample time to create the special piece for that special someone on Valentine's Day :)

Click here to get to my Artfire Shop front.
Happy wrapping!

Wire Wrap Bail - Wired Rose Motif

Something different this time around.
So far I have only designed my wired rose around rings and earrings.

Here, I managed to twist the wire into a rose's motif bail. The glass bead is rather large and I think the steel rose really complement the blooms on the bead :)

If you would like to learn how to make this wire rose (not this bail though),
you can get the tutorials for 25% less starting today.
I am having a SALES at my Artfire Shop - click here right now! or the direct links down here:
Wire Wrap Rose Ring Tutorial
Wire Wrap Rose Earrings Tutorial