Jewelry Designer Blog. Jewelry by Natalia Khon

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Welcome to this week's blog hop!

This blog hop runs from Monday 12:00 PM through Friday 11:59 PM EST.

Your hosts:

Sara from Content in the Meantime

Kassandra from Coffee and Their Kisses

Meet your co-hosts for the Month of October:

Jewelry Designer Blog. Jewelry by Natalia Khon

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Featured posts of the week:

Posted below is the featured blog post of the week. I love to find unique blogs and post to share about and write little comments on their writings. I try my best to give every blog a chance to be chosen, so make sure to enter your blog every week!

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Here's a new post for DIY Fried Rice from WannaTalk2Us. A healthier way to make fried rice, and it is cheaper than buying it from a take out place. Thanks for sharing!
Congratulations to the featured blogs!

Don't forget to check out the other blogs from last week!

What have I been doing?

Natalia's post: Wooden Candy Bowl - Guest post by VZBrelo

Sara's Post: Pinterest Experiment: Egg Muffin Souffles

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Behind the scene. Let's see what is happening at the studio of a wedding accessories artist!

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

This is a guest post by Anna of Gentle Decisions. You can see all Anna's guest posts here.

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Hello all! Today I'll tell you about my work on one of the latest orders. I made two wedding combs. It was a difficult, responsible and interesting order. It was a great experience worth sharing!

I usually start with choosing my materials. There are many kinds of polymer clay, each of them is better than others depending on a purpose of the accessories that are ordered. For example, if we are talking of a comb for a bride that she is going to wear all her wedding day long, then the comb needs to be very light in weight.

I also need to know all the kinds of flowers and their colors and hues before I start. I would need to dye some flowers after I finish making them.

To avoid confusion I wrote a list of the flowers that I needed to make for both ordered combs. I needed to make an orchid, the daffodils and the hydrangeas for the first one and an orchid, the rose buds, the dogwood flowers, the daffodils and a few small chrysanthemums for the second comb. I took out the combs that were finished already, so it would be easier for me to copy the flowers attached to them.

All flowers are set on a piece of wire. Each flower requires different thickness of wire depending on its size. Each pistil and stamen needs to be set on a piece of wire too.

The orchids were going to be the center pieces of each comb. I rolled the clay by hand to make all the orchid petals. I chose not to use the cutters for that job. Then I textured the petals and set each of them on a piece of wire.

The color of the orchids needed to be off-white. I dyed each petal in a hue that my customer requested.

I took a few pictures to show my work in progress:

Everything is sorted out here, so I can start putting flowers into the "bouquets":

I sketched a few designs of the "bouquets". My customer decided to add a few more smaller flowers around the orchids. I took the "bouquets" apart to add new flowers, then put the "bouquets" together again.

All was left after that was attaching the metal combs to the "bouquets". They turned out very light weight, so the bride would feel comfortable without even feeling them in her hair on her wedding day.

The flower compositions were considerably longer than the combs. It just meant that they would need to be secured with a couple of hair pins.

I hope you enjoyed my story!

Here are a few links where you can find more of my work:

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Jewellery masterpieces. Fine jewellery by Nobuko Ishikawa

Diamond pin by Nobuko Ishikawa

Jewellery giveaway by Ginger Mint Collection

Today we have a wonderful giveaway by Ginger Mint Collection shop.

Ginger Mint Collection

Vintage - handmade - quirky

The Ginger Mint Collection of jewellery, buttons, Christmas decorations and more is fresh, zesty and just a little bit different.

Here are just a few samples of what you can find in the shop:

Prize:

Willow Pattern jewellery including pendant, hanging on silver-plated chain, and Willow Pattern French Incognitos. These interchangeable earrings, hanging on .925 sterling silver ear wires and featuring two different willow pattern earring 'drops' may be the most comfortable earrings you have ever worn! Made from polymer clay, these willow pattern pieces are light, durable and lovely to wear.

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Monday Inspirational Quote

Monday, October 12, 2015

Monday nail design

Love this shade of red suggested by Roza for October! Classic red is not that old-fashioned, is it? :)

Wooden candy bowl. Guest post by VZBRELO

This is one more guest post by the VZBRELO girls. You can find a list of all their "behind the scene" post here.

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Hello! I am Maria and here is our third guest blog post here. Today I will show show you how we've made this candy-bowl.

My favorite wood to work with is cedar, so I have chosen it to make a base for the bowl. Cedar is a soft wood with an incredible aroma! Often we cannot use it in our works because of it softness. However, it was perfect for the bowl project. I was very pleased that I got that cedar project!

We started with a sketch, then calculated all the angles of the future bowl and the length of the bars that we would need. The next step was to make the bars!