Amoronia pieces are statements. Period. If you want to win this bracelet, head to the relevant EGST blog post. Do not leave a comment below this post!
Good luck!
Good luck!
Showing posts with label bracelet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bracelet. Show all posts
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Monday, November 21, 2011
All About Little Red Riding Hood Rustic Bracelet
This bracelet is such a darling! Available here.
Elegant and chic, but with a rustic feel, particularly suited to people who can't live without fairy tales, this bracelet is perfect for those who prefer earthy colors for their outfits, as it combines red, green, yellow and brown together.
'All About Little Red Riding Hood' came from a very old, vintage book. You can think of this bracelet as an uncommon ID, which still leaves plenty of mystery...
Elegant and chic, but with a rustic feel, particularly suited to people who can't live without fairy tales, this bracelet is perfect for those who prefer earthy colors for their outfits, as it combines red, green, yellow and brown together.
'All About Little Red Riding Hood' came from a very old, vintage book. You can think of this bracelet as an uncommon ID, which still leaves plenty of mystery...
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Skull Bracelet or Necklace
I have an obsession with skulls lately. I wear a lot of skull jewelry that I have made for myself, and I can totally identify with it. Sometimes it's the gothic version, sometimes I need something to cheer me up. Since I am often inspired by what I would wear myself, this piece belongs to the second kind.
You can wear this piece either as a triple wrap bracelet or as an asymmetrical, adjustable length necklace. Truly wonderful!
You can wear this piece either as a triple wrap bracelet or as an asymmetrical, adjustable length necklace. Truly wonderful!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Victorian Rocker Leather Cuff
I love the Victorian and the rocker trend this season! I had saved this piece of fabric with black rhinestones embroidered on it for when the inspiration would be right, and a few days ago, eureka! I combined it with a grey leather part from an old handbag which had not been used at all, and connected the ends with chain. The cuff fastens with two magnetic clasps, if you pull the chains enough for the magnets to come close. I have to say, it is one of my favorite creations, and it's one of a kind!
Hope you like it!
Hope you like it!
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Metal Buttons and Chains
I really don't know what to call this bracelet. It is one of the most beautiful pieces I have made! I'm so excited...
I used vintage metal buttons and new and old pieces of chain, together with old findings and some raw brass wire. I was inspired by traditional Greek costume jewelry, only instead of coins I used vintage metal buttons that feature decorative motifs and patterns, military themes (a crest), nautical themes (an anchor, a ship), even goddess Athena (on a 1937 penny button) and the Versace logo (with the Medusa encircled by the Greek key). I think it looks superb! And it's one of a kind.
Now I would love it if you could help me find a name for it... Think Greek traditional costumes, Byzantine armours and shields, whatever comes to your mind when you see the bracelet.
I used vintage metal buttons and new and old pieces of chain, together with old findings and some raw brass wire. I was inspired by traditional Greek costume jewelry, only instead of coins I used vintage metal buttons that feature decorative motifs and patterns, military themes (a crest), nautical themes (an anchor, a ship), even goddess Athena (on a 1937 penny button) and the Versace logo (with the Medusa encircled by the Greek key). I think it looks superb! And it's one of a kind.
Now I would love it if you could help me find a name for it... Think Greek traditional costumes, Byzantine armours and shields, whatever comes to your mind when you see the bracelet.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Important Things
The Age Of Innocence is Martin Scorcese's 1993 masterpiece, a film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel. If you have seen it, you will surely remember Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer. And if you haven't, you should see it before anything else!
For this bracelet I was inspired by the following scene, and I used recycled acrylic white pearls, in various sizes (12mm, 6mm and 4mm). Total length is 20.5cm or 8 inches, but it feels more like 7.5 inches on the wrist.
ELLEN
I see you've already chosen your corner. This is the hour I like
best, don't you?
ARCHER
I was afraid you'd forgotten the hour. I'm sure Beaufort can be
very intriguing.
ELLEN
He took me to see some houses. I'm told I must move, even though
this street seems perfectly respectable.
ARCHER
Yes, but it's not fashionable.
ELLEN
Is fashion such a serious consideration?
ARCHER
Among people who have nothing more serious to consider.
ELLEN
And how would these people consider my street?
ARCHER
(lightly, disparagingly)
Oh, well, fleetingly, I'm afraid. Look at your neighbors.
Dressmakers. Birdstuffers. Cafe owners.
ELLEN
(smiling)
I'll count on you to always let me know about such important
things.
For this bracelet I was inspired by the following scene, and I used recycled acrylic white pearls, in various sizes (12mm, 6mm and 4mm). Total length is 20.5cm or 8 inches, but it feels more like 7.5 inches on the wrist.
ELLEN
I see you've already chosen your corner. This is the hour I like
best, don't you?
ARCHER
I was afraid you'd forgotten the hour. I'm sure Beaufort can be
very intriguing.
ELLEN
He took me to see some houses. I'm told I must move, even though
this street seems perfectly respectable.
ARCHER
Yes, but it's not fashionable.
ELLEN
Is fashion such a serious consideration?
ARCHER
Among people who have nothing more serious to consider.
ELLEN
And how would these people consider my street?
ARCHER
(lightly, disparagingly)
Oh, well, fleetingly, I'm afraid. Look at your neighbors.
Dressmakers. Birdstuffers. Cafe owners.
ELLEN
(smiling)
I'll count on you to always let me know about such important
things.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Lena Horne Legacy ID Bracelets
As you all know, I truly cherish Lena Horne and have already created a necklace and earrings with 'I'm me and I'm like nobody else'. Yesterday I felt the time had come for me to start a new line, that of ID bracelets. Here's what I have made so far:
The first one was done with white opal and strawberry pink quartz, and it was created for the current EGST challenge, and the second one was done with green aventurine and black glass beads. I really love the way they turned out!
The first one was done with white opal and strawberry pink quartz, and it was created for the current EGST challenge, and the second one was done with green aventurine and black glass beads. I really love the way they turned out!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Sparkling and Ecofriendly
The following double link gold tone rhinestone chain bracelet was created with a piece of rescued chain and a piece of rescued black ribbon. Only the wire and the clasp are new...
This pair of earrings features a rescued piece of silver rhinestone chain and some pink lace, which I kept from the Greek fashion designer THEIA's invitation to her show last fall. The collage was done on sustainable bamboo.
What do you think of my new, recycled and ecofriendly creations?
Sunday, August 8, 2010
An Act Of Love
I was organising my supplies the other day, when I found out that I have quite a few beads that seem to have always been there... You know, the kind of beads that you may have found lying around, never really knowing where they came from.
I made this colorful OOAK bracelet using many of them, and they are so diverse: acrylic, wooden, glass, porcelain beads, I combined them all with a message charm that reads 'Would you please stop smoking?'. It's an act of love!
Interesting fact: This line actually comes from the film 'Lost In Translation'!
I made this colorful OOAK bracelet using many of them, and they are so diverse: acrylic, wooden, glass, porcelain beads, I combined them all with a message charm that reads 'Would you please stop smoking?'. It's an act of love!
Interesting fact: This line actually comes from the film 'Lost In Translation'!
Friday, May 28, 2010
The Way To Ithaka, Bracelet
'Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and
wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities
did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and
customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea
while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home;
but do what he might he could not save his men, for they
perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of
the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever
reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter
of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.'
(The Odyssey by Homer, Book I, rendered in English prose by Samuel Butler)
Ithaca is a Greek island of the Ionian Sea. To make this bracelet I thought of the green on its mountains and the rose of its sunsets. A humble island it is, so I only used humble materials, like papier mache and watercolor to paint it, and common seed beads. No, the beauty of Ithaka lies not in its wealth or power. Ithaka is the destination and the journey itself. And, if you've read Cavafy's Ithaka, that is the only wealth and power one may ever truly claim their own.
'Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.'
(From C. P. Cavafy's Ithaka, translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard)
wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities
did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and
customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea
while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home;
but do what he might he could not save his men, for they
perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of
the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever
reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter
of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.'
(The Odyssey by Homer, Book I, rendered in English prose by Samuel Butler)
Ithaca is a Greek island of the Ionian Sea. To make this bracelet I thought of the green on its mountains and the rose of its sunsets. A humble island it is, so I only used humble materials, like papier mache and watercolor to paint it, and common seed beads. No, the beauty of Ithaka lies not in its wealth or power. Ithaka is the destination and the journey itself. And, if you've read Cavafy's Ithaka, that is the only wealth and power one may ever truly claim their own.
'Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.'
(From C. P. Cavafy's Ithaka, translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard)
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