End of the year projects

 I think I was very productive during end of this year. I made totally 12 brooches and 4 pendants for friends and families, and  of course for myself. It is started when I found out that my netting was really bad. I  compared my works with friends who took lessons at the same time with me and I still left behind. Other reason was my husband started mentioning about how I bought lots of stones just to put them in the shoe boxes. So, one day I promised my self that instead of buying stones I would turn them into brooches and pendants. And these are they.... the two months brooches and pendants. Can you see the difference in my netting? I think I can do the netting better now. But still I always confuse doing netting near the top/beginning/end of the wire.

The first four are pendants, the rest are brooches (I put 4 brooches, ordered by a friend - Yeti- to different article.... just to make the pictures in this article less confusing). I bought the stones from Dnayra Sweet and the Druzy from Fifi Prinz (also known as Juna Lee).

Kowani Fair

I joint a show run by Kowani and IWAPI (Indonesia Women Entrepreneur Organization) from 9-13 May 2012... which was last week.....
Love it very much.... all participants were small enterprises or individuals. Many brought traditional items.... not as unique as in INACRAFT but still they were different...
Some which I like very much were batiks, tapis lampung, stones for jewellery......

For Batiks and tapis Lampung.... they revitalized old motives and used it with additional new designs or colors... very beautiful..

Now about me... I joint the show with 2 friends, Tini and Evi. They were both very creative and made our booth very beautiful as you can see in the pictures:

These are the pictures of our booth.... beautiful isn't it? and looked very vintage. We used curtain (taken from Tini's bedroom) with flower motives and used it as a background and put all the shawls we have (as long as there were red and purple colors in it). And if you see the table with white table cloth (top picture), it was not a table cloth at all, it was a curtain :)

So we used all that we have to make our booth looked incredible... Tini has earring hooks made from iron with a branch of tree shape (top picture). it really is unique.

And this is the three of us in front of our booth:

Evi - Me - Tini

New brooches

I made some brooches from stones and crystal yesterday.... I finished them, but I still feel unsatisfied, These are they:

I used stones and crystal - although I'm not sure what are the names of the stones. The green and purple stones are from Dnayra Sweet, while the top picture are consist of big stone from Studio Manik and small stones from Dnayra Sweet,

I love to see your comments on the brooches. I really like to change them.... but still unsure how...

New Wire Crochet Project

This is my newest project on wire crochet. I made this necklace using rose quartz from Manik Jawa and wire copper. I love the soft pink color which embodied  this necklace and made it looked very delicate.

What d'you think?

Again...... wire crochet project.....

 I thought wire crochet projects published on line were not as many as other wire works. However I've come to some very good links if you like to learn how to make wire crochet, like this one http://www.handmade-jewelry-club.com

Although it only has one wire project, but we can always make varieties of it. Like what I finished yesterday.

The bracelet is supposed to be made in three rows and more loose, so we can see each bead was placed one after another. But when I used this stones, the wire got wrinkle and shortened.... and all the beads crumpled..... But I think it kind of nice and I like it... :)

My butterfly brooches

I always adore butterflies.... they are so beautiful and colorful.... I made butterfly brooches and these are they:

And also from wire:

Wire Crochet

I love wire crochet.... loveeeee it very much.... and it seems that many people love it, so I have some orders on the crochet bracelets and below are the pictures. I used natural stones bought in the Gem stones market in Jatinegara, flowers from Dnayra Sweet and Studio Manik (red and white flowers), and agate from Manik Jawa.

light brown wire crochet bracelet

green wire crochet bracelet

light brown wire crochet with flower 

purple wire crochet bracetlet

To crochet wire, what we need is wire (28 ga) and a crochet needle, like this:

My other wire crochet works are:

Sooo... lets crochet the wire.........