Spring in Scandinavia lariat necklace

Susana/susanatp, Spain, has received the secret beader gift from me. I was a little bit worried since I have not heard a word from her and I sent it for almost two weeks ago. Here is the lariat necklace that I made for her. I called it Spring in Scandinavia and it is made of green AB seed beads, cream seed beads, Czech glass flower and leaves, Czech facetted glass, Amazonite briolette and sterling silver findings. The cream beads symbolise the melting snow during the spring season in Scandinavia, while the green seed beads, flowers and leaves symbolise the spring.

Secret beader gift 5 received

Today, I received a package from United States. It was my secret beader gift from Sue (suemiteff) in the BeadStyle forum! A jewellery set made of Swarovski crystals and freshwater button pearls. I love pinks, I love pearls and I love glittering crystals! This girly princess set is just perfect for me! :-) Thanks for the jewellery set Sue! See the other jewelleries from the Secret beader exchange gift 5 here.

Secret beader gift 5 sent

Yesterday evening, I finished the piece of jewellery for my secret beader. I have sent her the piece today. I will tell you more about the piece and post pictures when she has received it. Hope she likes it! :-)

Collection Wood and Stone

Yesterday I worked with a new collection called Wood and Stone. The materials that I use were wood beads and Swarovski crystals. Well, Swarovski is not a stone, but the greyish colour (Black Diamond) symbolise the look of stone in the nature. So far the collection consists of two items – bracelet and earrings. The bracelet is totally handmade including the clasp by using silver plated wire and each of the wood beads have unique pattern. The wood beads in the earrings have similar pattern, but the pattern is not identical, since each bead is unique. The collection will be available through my Etsy shop this week. :-)

Custom banner for my shop

I bought a custom banner on Monday from Sararae on Etsy. Sara delivered the final version of the custom banner yesterday evening. The banner is beautiful with sparkling stars (but the banner does not have the animate effect on Etsy) and can be viewed in my Etsy shop. She was great to deal with. I got the banner exactly the way that I wanted. Gorgeous! :-)

Spring wine glass charms

After the Easter set, I made another set of wine glass charms. This one has spring theme with Czech glass cup flowers and glow in the dark glass butterflies. :-)

Easter wine glass charms

Today I made a set of Easter wine glass charms. I hand made the hoops with silver plated wire. The set contains six different designs in Easter/spring colour scheme. The beads in the designs are Czech glass, Japanese Miyuki cubes and Chinese glass cat eye.

Secret beader gift exchange 5 in progress

The fifth round of “Secret beader gift exchange” is in progress. I signed up for this one last month and received the information about my Secret beader (receiver) last night from Lucy, the designer of Kitschkitty, who is the organizer of this round. I have participated in the third and fourth round of Secret beader gift exchange before and I loved it. I have made jewellery in different style and materials each time. Let see what I come up with this time! ;-)

PIF item (3) on Etsy

I have sold my third PIF item on Etsy. I changed the listing of a set of Christmas wine charms to a pair of earrings - Celtic Sweetheart. I made the Celtic knots myself and added pink cateyes and little puffy hearts. They were sold to a buyer in US within five hours! :-)

PIF item (2) on Etsy

I received a call today with happy news, so I decided to forward my luck to someone by listing another PIF item. "Pinky Eyes" is a pair of silver plated earrings made with pink cateyes (glass) and Czech glass.

PIF item (1) on Etsy

I have bought a Pay It Forward (PIF) item on Etsy. It was a package of three graphic logotypes design. I am so excited. Looking forward to see the logotypes!

So what is a PIF? A PIF is free for the buyer and often the item shipped without additional cost to the buyer. The only thing the buyer has to do is to list a PIF item on Etsy.

I sold a PIF item at midnight (Swedish time) to a Canadian girl. She bought the earrings for her mom! So sweet! :-) It was a pair of earrings from the collection “Dancing crystals”. They are made with Cosmic crystals, German seed beads and silver plated findings.

Wire works in papercraft magazine

I bought the latest issue of Papercraft Essentials today. The issue contains inspiration ideas for wire works like decorations and tiaras. Perfect for wedding and party!

Exhibition about jewelleries

Today, my boyfriend and I visited the Hallwyl Museum in the city. They have an exhibition “Silver & smycken – till fest och vardag”about jewelleries and sterling silver utility items during 10th February – 23rd April 2006. It is free entrance to the exhibition. Well, to be honest, it was too much utility articles and too little jewelleries. ;-) The exhibition showed jewelleries made in sterling and gold and different kind of gemstones e.g. Amethyst and Topaz.

Bargain shopping

I was at the craft shop Panduro, Barkaby (north of Stockholm) on Friday. It was sale and everything in the shop was 50 % off! I bought over 600 glass beads, mother of pearls pendants, funky plastic beads, findings, satin ribbon and waxed linen thread.

European bead swap

We have an European bead swap at the Beads & Button's/BeadStyle's forum . I received the bead package from Kristina in Sweden today. I picked some shell beads, lampworks and glass beads and replaced them with crystals, lampworks and glass beads. Tomorrow the package will be post to Kylee in France.

The beads that Kylee will receive look like this:


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Secret beader gift 4 received

These are the gifts that I received from Amanah, United Kingdom, at Secret Beader Exchange 4. The colour scheme of the key chain was blue – my favourite colour! The pair of earrings was lovely designed with glass beads and blue freshwater pearls. Yes, and the whole packaging concept was gorgeous with the pieces in organza bags and the organza bags in a black & gold box. It felt really luxurious. :-)

Bead exchange 4 - gift from Anne Cinnabar

This is set that I made for Karen/beadsbydesign at the event Secret Beader Exchange 4 at Beads & Button's/BeadStyle's forum . The picture is photographed by Karen.

The name of the piece is Electric Orange and is made of Red Aventurine stone chips, Swarovski Emerald bicone crystals and sterling silver round bead with etched stars.

The inspiration idea was autumn, since autumn colours are Karen's favourites. The Red Aventurine has the same colour as autumn leaves and the Swarovski Emerald bicones is the colour of the leaves just before the summer season turns to autumn. And the sterling silver bead with etched stars is just like the twinkle little stars upon sky in the autumn evenings.

Books about jewellery making

Today I went to the library and borrowed several books about pearls, chainmaille and shortcuts about jewellery making. The latter book has great tips about wire working (my latest obsession). Well, interesting books to read during the Christmas holidays!

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My name is Anne. I live in Stockholm in Sweden. This blog is about my favorite interest jewellery design. I have been making jewellery since 2004.