Newly listed jewellery items: purples, yellows and greens!!!

After filling my Etsy shop parltradet with lots of skinny slim soft bangles, I decided to list some chunkier stretch bracelets for those who prefer larger beaded adornments for the wrist.



This first bracelet is simply made of flat purple silverlined puff-coins and matching silverlined round beads as well as lilac seed beads as spacers.
Next is a a purple version of my standard elegant stretch-choker with stretch-bracelet set.



I have changed the pattern slightly, making it, I think, a little more comfortable to wear.



And I am finally stocking my shop parltradet with colour-coordinated earrings. These cube-shaped earring with antiqued brass findings go with all of the purple pieces. I will stock several models of purple earrings and, naturally, even ones with sterling silver findings too.



For my Etsy shop AnnasAdornments, that carries everything and anything that is NOT stretch-jewellery, I have listed a purple heart pendant necklace which is not new, but appropriate for Valentine's Day: (Thanks to AnnaLela this heart-necklace has been featured in a treasury, 'February love...'.)




Also at Anna's shop, I have listed a wire-wrapped bracelet made of antiqued (=oxidised) copper wire and chain and rounded free-form honey-quartz nuggets. I do so much that is so refined. I though it might be fun to have a piece that was not only chunky, but even a wee bit rugged.



Something to wear with an oatmeal-coloured knitted sweater on a cold day in February? Or why not something yellow, shocking-pink and frivolously silly in July?
(Many thanks to Carita at Jealousydesign for her recipe for oxidising silver using only a boiled egg. It also works with copper wire!)



What do you do with leftovers? Some jewellery artisans make 'bead-soup' of their leftover stones and beads. These quartz nuggets are too heavy for earrings, so I made an 'ooak' (=one of a kind) stretch-bracelet for parltradet using some very large purple tube-shaped lampwork beads and some garnet chips and 4mm round Czech glass beads as spacers. (What would we do without the Czechs?!)



And finally some lovely light greens, when you are dreaming about springtime! As you can see I took this shot a couple of months ago when the fall leaves looked yellow (in October). But I haven't had time to list this item until now! (I have about ten yet to be listed pieces of jewellery waitng for their turn to be in the spotlight!)



This is a stretch-bracelet that is not really 'chunky', but not a 'slim-soft-bangle' either, but just a nice in between bracelet size that many would enjoy wearing. And the stretchiness makes this bracelet super-easy to put on and take off (which is 'parltradet's motto: 'Beautiful and easy-to-wear jewellery').



You can use the CraftCult widgets on the sidebar to get to my Etsy shops 'parltradet' and 'AnnasAdornments'. Or click on the names here.

Best wishes,
Anna
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Mellow Yellow Monday # 60: Elisabet helps make a green & gold stretch-necklace

Dear Folks at MYM: Can we call Gold as a sort of Yellow???

This morning I got this idea to make a beaded necklace with these bright and cheery, grass-green-coloured 6mm round Czech crackle glass beads.

Why not put them together with light gold-coloured silver-lined seedbeads?

Elisabet wanted to help string the necklace.

So it became a joint effort. It's not ready to list yet.

But if we keep playing with beads and colours, it might become something.

Happy Green and Gold Monday!
Anna & Elisabet

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Mellow Yellow Monday #59: Earrings, earrings! International Women's Day

To celebrate International Women's Day (or however it's called in English, please correct me, anyone) I would like to show some new earrings that have not yet been listed in my shops.

Here are some yellows:

Take a closer look at these cat-earrings. I've made them with orange squares too. (These are in honour of Calle Cat's new venture "The Red Cat Society" Take a peek here.)

And here are some greens,

since Saint Patrick's Day is just around the corner: (Love those little glass squares!)

And all the while I was working with these earrings, Elisabet was making a necklace for herself:

Well, she actually made two!

Happy Monday!

Anna


P.S.

(To the world's best photographers who may happen to stop by an see this post: Yes, I know these shots are horrible with the flash. Yuck. Natural lighting or a tripod and well-placed lamps are better! I have had a terrible day and the sun went down when I finally got around to taking the pics. I promise to not use these photos in my shop, then no one will buy these earrings. To women everywhere in the world who are working double, I salute you sisters!)

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Some of the last flowers blooming before the final killer frost

As I have mentioned several times before, we have a lovely garden.

But I am always finding interesting plants along our neighbors' fence.

These bright red-orange flowers looked like this about a week or so ago. I don't know what they are called. If anyone can tell me what their name is in English, Latin or Swedish, I would be very grateful. According to Jakill from Jean's Musings, these flowers are nasturtiums. (Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me! Best wishes from Anna on October 14th 2009)

Yes they were this bright! I will miss the lovely greens and bright reds, oranges and pinks of spring and summer.

On the other hand, I can make jewellery as cheery as summer-flowers all fall and winter.

Please come visit again and see!