New Wire Jewelry Tutorial

ADJUSTABLE Wire Wrap Rose Ring
(yeah another adjustable ring!)
Don't we just love one size fits all jewelry? :)

This tutorial is rated for beginner to intermediate level.
I am very sure anyone without wire wrapping experience would be able to make one of this ring.

Allocate about 30 minute or less for this project.
All steps and instructions are accompanied with clear close up pictures all the way till project completion.

Click here to Purchase (this link brings you to my Etsy shop)

The material required is to the bare minimum - a piece of wire.
The tools required are also minimum if you are not very particular.
Check out the details here - Project description.

Click here to Purchase 

Happy April and Happy Wrapping.

Wire Wrapped Sparkly Rings - slow

This is going rather slow.
Two dozens more to go.
I hope to get this done this weekend so I can move on to the next project.

What is your jewelry project this weekend?

Look at my working tray here.
That's all the space needed for this project ;)

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.