A Pretty Rock Jewelry » black http://www.aprettyrock.com Adorn Yourself Because You Deserve It... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:48:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tassels live on http://www.aprettyrock.com/blog/site-news/tassels-live-on/ http://www.aprettyrock.com/blog/site-news/tassels-live-on/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:47:40 +0000 Yazmin http://www.aprettyrock.com/uncategorized/tassels-live-on/ Continue reading →]]> As I was organizing and cutting up strands of stones for storage, I noticed how pretty some of the tassels were that came at the end of the gemstone strands. That’s when I thought to myself, how neat would it be to incorporate tassels into a few of my pieces?

Pendant waiting on chain

I’ve already made a pendant component with one of the tassels. This mother of pearl black shell disc was selected specifically for it’s yellowish tones. Around it, I created a secure frame accented with gold-filled rounds, to which I attached the tassel. It came out quite nice. I’m just waiting for my order of chain to come in this month to finish of the piece.

However, I have these other tassels that aren’t all nice and straight like the first one I used. I don’t want to throw them away because they are rather nice and can be much more so if tamed. Does anyone know how I would go about straightening tassels?

]]> http://www.aprettyrock.com/blog/site-news/tassels-live-on/feed/ 3 Ring of Colors http://www.aprettyrock.com/blog/custom-orders/ring-of-colors/ http://www.aprettyrock.com/blog/custom-orders/ring-of-colors/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:24:53 +0000 Yazmin http://www.aprettyrock.com/uncategorized/ring-of-colors/ Continue reading →]]> As you may know, one of the things I like to do most is create custom jewelry. When someone knows what they want and asks for it, I have no worries about whether or not a piece I make will eventually get some love and wear for it. That makes me happy.

Recently, I mentioned that I had a customer ask me to recreate a criss cross bangle into a ring. After spending several days in search of uniform 4mm freshwater pearls in various colors, I finally decided to abandon my quest and move forward with other suitable solutions – in this instance, Swarovski pearls.

The first thing to tackle was getting an array of colors for the ring. Swarovski traditionally selects more muted and toned down colors for their pearls than what I originally used for the cuff. Since I wanted to make sure that I had colors that matched each other in tone and saturation, I bought 9 different strands of Swarovski pearls to play with. I’m glad I did as some of the pearls I originally selected would not have worked well with each other! Luckily, I already had the gold pearls from a long ago project.

After selecting 6 colors to work with, I have to say I’m very happy with the outcome of the ring. It’s absolutely beautiful and I will definitely be adding it to the listing of available rings made-to-order.

(As an after thought, it occurred to me that this would be a great post for this week’s Etsy Bloggers Street Team theme of Carnival of Colors, hosted at Bead Jewelry by ShopGirl. So there you have it!)

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