Another Flora Pendant

Actually, this wire wrapped flora pendant was completed last weekend. However, I was busy the whole week that I didn't get around to posting it till almost another weekend again!
Stones are combination of Tourmaline, Cherry Quartz, Rose Quartz (Focal) and Czech Beads (Leaves).
This one is my favorite so far although I have wire wrapped similar one back in June.
Hammering was kept to minimum as the 19ga wire is already hard enough.

 

Weekend is just a few hours away so here is wishing you a wonderful floral weekend! :)
Related Posts:
The first Flora Pendant
The second Flora Pendant
The third Flora Pendant, 7 petals

Wire Wrapped Flora Pendant - 7 Petals

Its almost Friday, 5 days since my last post. Mmm.....wish I can post more frequently.
The between posts is getting wider and wider.
This picture been sitting on my desktop for the last 4 days and I kept getting distracted although I kept telling myself to post it - everyday.
Tomorrow I'd be away whole day and by weekend I'd be busy with family matter so I am posting it NOW :)

This wire wrapped flower pendant looks familiar? Yeah, here's my first one. Only, this time around there are 7 petals instead of 5.
Another one similar to this design is the next project.
Hope to finish it this weekend.

New Wire Wrap Adjustable Ring, TAW Ring and Steel Rose

3 rings to share today - Twice Around the World (TAW) Wire Wrap Ring (Turquoise), Wire Wrap Rose Ring (all wire) and an Adjustable Ring, with my favourite gemstone, tourmaline.
I remember taking pictures of these 3 rings last week but I must have lost or misplaced them while transferring files from the old laptop. Can't find them last night so I retook these pictures this morning.

Planning to refine the technique for the newvAdjustable Ring (bottom left pic above) and hopefully to come up with a new step by step wire jewelry eTutorial :) Been a while.
Notice any difference to the Rose Ring (bottom right pic above)? :)

Close up of the TAW Ring. This I made with 22ga wire as it is easier to work with. If you have my tutorial for this TAW Ring, you will know why :) Its quite a handfull to hold 6 wires on one end and another 6 on the other end and at the same time shaping the ring shank and maintaining the wires at their position.

This one is another Japanese Bead Adjustable Ring completed earlier. A hit because it is easy to put on and eye-catching.

Related Posts:
Steel Roses
Japanese Seed Bead Ring
New Layout & Adjustable Ring
Available Tutorials:
TAW Wire Wrap Ring eTutorial
Wire Wrap Rose Ring Tutorial

50% Off at My Artfire Shop

Today is 10-10-10!
For TODAY ONLY, I am having 50% Sales at my ArtFire Shop - WireBliss.artfire.com
All items are already marked down to the discounted price.
For information, unlike Etsy, registration is not required to purchase from ArtFire.
See you there within this 24 hours.
Let your friends know about this too.

Visit WireBliss's ArtFire Shop
Thank you.

Religious Pendants - Wire Wrap Cross

Not very productive the last few days but I managed to complete these two custom order wire wrap crosses.
I use 19ga wire for the frame of this swirly wire wrap cross while the swirls are 20ga wire. The focal is a piece of coin pearl. Don't you just love those swirls - inspired by Erin.
I have a tutorial for this cross at my Etsy shop here - Wire Wrap Cross Pendant

This second cross is inspired by Iza. This time around the stone is tourmaline and the size of the cross is a wee bit smaller, as per request. Don't try this out, or else you will get addicted to the weaving :)

Here is wishing you a great weekend and happy creating.
Related Posts:
Aquamarine Weaved Cross
Peridot Weaved Cross
Cherry Quartz Wire Wrap Cross
Different Kind of Monstrance
Monstrance with Rays
Blue Themed Wire Wrap Cross

Deadlines, Surfing, Ink, T-shirts and TAW Wire Wrap Bracelet

Seems that my deadlines are never ending. They keep coming one after another. Can be good and can be not so good. There are many things I want to do here that I have been postponing for a long time and it is October already!!! Just 3 more months left for 2010.
I hope I am not boring you with my ranting about this again. Can't help it especially when it is a big part of my life - Deadlines.
Here are some of the things that I have been able to complete and partly completed (pst! besides my official "Work" of course).

ArtFire Group Deal: At least during this busy time, I decided to take up Artfire Group Deal of $5.95/month. I think it is a very good deal and investment :) Hopefully! In the next few months (don't dare to say few days or weeks), I got to set sometime to promote this ArtFire Shop of mine and use some of the tools available.
If you have been sitting on the fence, you still have few hours to consider (hope it is not too late by the time you read this) - follow this link ArtFire $5.95/mth Group Deal is ending today.

Net surfing and reading: Yeah! I do allocate a bit of time for net surfing and read interesting articles/posts from sites that I subscribe to as well as random sites. Life will be very boring especially if it is only about Deadlines :)

Here is one for information and knowledge - very short one, so won't take a lot of your time (I prefer short and straight to point articles. I am sure you do to). I am not into beauty products kind of person but if you are, check out this post from Blisstree- Beauty salon treatments health effects.
Her is How ink is made from Apartmenttherapy - Do you know how ink is made? Interesting.

Talking about ink, this website has all kind of things under one roof. First, I discover funny t-shirts that leads me to Cafepress funny posters.  Now that I have discovered this website, I need more time to explore. Lots of interesting ideas and potential here. For the short time I spent there, I know the site is for both artists and shoppers. You can open your own shop (both free and paid), create then sell your own custom-design products. If you prefer to shop, like me :) check out what you can find at savings.com. That should help us save some.

Wire Jewelry: Still my favorite subject :) and can't end this post without showing recently completed pieces. Here are 2 Twice Around the World (TAW) Wire Wrap Bracelets. Completed last weekend actually, but only managed to work on the pictures this week.
The darker one is wire wrapped with tri-color tiger eyes while the reddish one with agate.

Both measures about 7 inches long.

This tiger eye one is taken.
The agate one hmmmm....I am still thinking what to do with it.

So that's about it.
Signing off here and here's:
How to make this TAW Wire Wrap Bracelet
How to make a TAW Wire Wrap matching Ring

Have a great weekend!