Allons-y! It's my first Doctor Who jewelry set!

A couple days ago I purchased a metal stamping kit to create jewelry with awesome quotes and sayings. I've always admired this kind of jewelry, but it does take some investment to get the required tools! I finally broke down and now I'm having fun with a rustic metal look that I've never really incorporated into my jewelry pieces before.

It's probably not a surprise to you all that I am a Doctor Who fan. I have my online friend Elenatintil to blame for introducing me to the show, and several irl friends to blame for getting me completely addicted!

For those of you not familiar with Doctor Who... it's complete bonkers to explain. You always wind up sounding like an idiot, but believe me when I say the show's eccentricities make it epic. Basically it is a BBC show about an alien known only as the Doctor who goes around in a 1960's blue Police Box (which is actually a spaceship called the TARDIS) with various companions (typically a modern day London girl), traveling throughout all of time and space and having wacky, deep, usually-quite-intelligent, and hard-to-explain adventures. Oh, and the Doctor is played by several different actors.

This was an image which greatly inspired this jewelry set:

I don't know who made the compilation graphic with the quote on it, but the artwork featured in this picture was made by Alicexz on DeviantArt.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect,

but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint -

it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

I love that "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" quote. It's handy to flourish when your brother is asking you to think about light cones and fourth dimensions. :) "It's all just wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff!"

One of my favorite things about Doctor Who is the pure wonder that the Doctor has bubbled up inside of him and how much beauty he sees in everything from the construction of a man-eating robot to a distant star to a single leaf on planet Earth.

This line, which he says when inviting a friend to join him on his adventures, is short and beautiful:

All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was... Where do you want to start?

I handstamped the letters onto aluminum, cut out the metal and sanded the edges, punched in holes for the TARDIS blue eyelets, and strung everything onto darkened steel chain sprinkled with blue glass cats-eye beads.

If you are interested, the necklace and two bracelets are for sale as a set on my Shoppe.

Also, I LOVE my camera and its lenses. They were a graduation present and I've been having SO MUCH FUN playing with the settings. :)

Fellow Whovians... what is your favorite Doctor Who quote? And your favorite episode and companion and Doctor? Personally I love Don't Blink, Amy, Martha, and Clara (don't make me pick!) and my bug-eyed Doctor (lol-- it's a joke in my family-- I mean the talented David Tennant of course!).

As a bonus, here is the very first piece that I made with my stamping kit! "Inconceivable!" is, of course, from The Princess Bride, one of the most quotable movies of all time. This one has chainmaille details.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

I'm Having a Wrist Party

Have you heard of wrist parties? I just found out about them from a fashion blog; they are what you call a wrist full of tons and tons of bracelets.

I decided to have a wrist party, too, and put on all some of the new bracelets I've made-- and they are all made with used guitar strings. :)

Have you done a wrist party recently? I think it's a really cute idea and would love to hear about your favorite "wrist party."

I try not to post about my Shoppe stuff all the time because I, at least, personally find it annoying when bloggers talk about nothing but the stuff you can buy from them.

But since this is the only way I'm currently making money, and since I've recently made a ton of jewelry and listed it on my online store... I have an announcement: You can buy these!

Go check out my Shoppe! Over the past two weeks I've slaved away and have listed 40 new items (WHEW. Listing the jewelry takes almost as much energy as making it!).

I won't post them all here right now, but in addition to guitar string necklaces, earrings, bracelets, bangles, and rings, there are some Elven jewels, a medieval circlet, custom rings, and more. The guitar string jewelry can be found under the "Novelty" tab, alongside steampunk and other geekery.

Oh, yeah, I'm also having a FINGER PARTY, baby! *cue the rock music, because wearing lots of bangles and rings makes me feel uncharacteristically like a rock star*

(No, I've no idea whether finger parties are a thing. If they aren't, I just invented them.)

Recent Custom Orders

Over the past couple of months, I've had quite a few custom orders. I put a great deal of work into these pieces (it can be pretty hard to figure out just exactly what the customer wants!), but they never get the spotlight on my Shoppe or here.

And so... may I present the  custom orders from the past couple of months? (Or at least the ones that I snagged pictures of before sending them to their new owners!)

And remember... if you see anything that the Shoppe that you would like in different colors or sizes... or if you see something but one this-or-that changed, don't hesitate to email me! See something on the blog or in my gallery? Email! And if you want a specific piece of jewelry, have an idea in your head of what it should look like, but don't see in listed in the Shoppe... just email me!

I'll do my absolute best to help you get the exact piece that you want!

I love custom orders-- I don't have enough $$$ to buy supplies for every piece of jewelry I want to make, but having a custom order gives me the perfect excuse!

These are sacrifice / good deed beads (see my blog post about sacrifice beads HERE). I had one listed on my Shoppe, and was contacted to see if I could make 13 of them! I was ecstatically excited-- it was my first large custom order! 

Plus, the customer had a brilliant idea-- turning them into bracelets!

Just a couple of weeks later, I got another order... this time for 20 sets of beads and in 2 different colors! YAY!

I should probably make more of these to list in the Shoppe... the only problem is that I used up all the medals and need to find a good place to get them at.

A bracelet for my aunt

Her wrist is small, so I had enough jumprings left over to make a pair of earrings and a necklace!

An Evenstar with custom earrings to match-- this is reversible! One side is green and the other a silvery white!

My favorite Fireworks Earrings in bright colors.

OK-- so this one wasn't a custom order. I made these Elegant Fireworks Earrings as a birthday present for a friend.

Two pairs of leaf earrings!

Two more pairs of leaf earrings!

More Fireworks Earrings... in fun colors and with an extra touch of sparkle. They were made to match a necklace that had been on my Shoppe:

Another not-custom-order-- decorated bobby pins. Not sure why these were in my Custom Orders file, but they were, so here's the picture! :)

This order was sooooo much fun! 3 sets of Fireworks earrings and necklaces in beautiful colors! Doing 3 helped me to perfect the design. :)

Oh, I might have gone camera crazy. Just maybe? I made this order while my little photography setup was set up, so of course I had to go picture crazy.

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Elven Inspirations

*fangurl squeal*

Have you seen the new behind-the-scenes video for The Hobbit? You can watch it right here if you haven't:

Here is the Hobbit Movie News website. It sounds like they are changing things up from the books a bit... adding in more of the stories happening at Middle Earth during the time of the Hobbit (not just telling the Hobbit story). They started filming a couple months ago. I can't wait can't wait can't wait for this movie!

This brings back so many memories... makes me want to re-watch The Lord of the Rings ...makes me marvel at how much detail is in the set and how little you actually get to see in the movies (just look at that Rivendell!) ...and got me into a full-blown inspirational swing.

I'm now re-addicted to Elvish designs.

Last month was good for sales, so I had a bit of extra money to spend on the Shoppe. I splurged on new (albeit a wee bit more expensive) colors and styles of my favorite Czech glass leaf beads.

I'll take you through a picture tour of some of my new designs! (I say some because these are just the items that I have actually taken the time to photograph and upload to the Shoppe... and I still have plenty of beads left!)

Please have a peek at these new designs! Click each image to see more and larger pictures of the jewelry!

My Evenstar design has always been very popular. I rarely make the same exact Evenstar more than once (unless it is a custom order)... This one is reversible. One side is a shiny gold-green, and the other a pale sage. It features little swirls, genuine Swavroski pearls, and a 3-strand-half-braided ribbons in matching colors.

I've figured out a much prettier and sturdier way to make my second most popular design-- Enchanted Forest Earrings. 

So... I made Evenstar/Forest Earring sets! This one is reversible-- one side iridescent blues, and the other deep midnight tones. Also, check out the star beads on the Evenstar... aren't they exquisite? I was so happy to find them on sale!

Another Evenstar/Forest Earrings set... in Pixie Pink. With pink wire, oh yeah!

And now for some Evenstar variations! Arwen's Evenstar has more of a "droplet" look than my twist on the Evenstar. The above is my attempt to replicate the shape in the original Evenstar.

btw, just for fun, here is a picture of the Evenstar necklace from the movies:

I took the techniques that I use to make Evenstars and combined them with some brand-new and pretty difficult wirewrapping techniques that I just figured out. 

Click for bigger pictures-- I learned how to weave wire, attach beads ontop of leaf beads, and create a "zig zag" wire filler.

When I got the new leaf beads and had so many pretty colors and new techniques to work with, I just had to experiment! The above is a pretty, freeform pink and purple necklace.

Another freeform Elven/fairy necklace... It's all swirly. :)

FYI, several of these new experimental designs are OOAK (one of a kind, meaning I will never make them again)-- especially these freeform necklace. They were fairly difficult to make, using special beads, and there is no way I can replicate them exactly.

So, if you do get one of these, you'll be assured that you'll be the only one with that style necklace! And if one of these designs sells but you want a copy... I can't do it. I can do something inspired by the original design, perhaps similar, but won't be able to replicate it.

Hair combs! I looooove hair combs and was so glad to be able to make them!

Another new technique-- I've figured out how to form the Czech leaf beads into a flower!!! This necklace features details all the way up the string, and it is reversible. That means that it was alot harder to make... but I'm so happy to have figured it out! ...it "only" required breaking two of my beads...

This sweet little pendant combines my new wire weaving techniques and the leaf-beads-into-pretty-flowers-thing.

Ohmygoodness. I was so tempted to keep these earrings for myself (I wound up making myself some in a different color).

I figured out a very pretty way to wirewrap leaf beads (leftover ones that I don't have enough of that color of to make other Elven designs).

The ear wires are Elf-style earwires handmade by me. (Yes, I figured out how to make ear wires, harden them, and file the ends!!!).

The earrings look long, but that is just because they are so slender and elegant. They are actually shorter than my Enchanted Forest Earrings-- they are under 2 inches long total.

 I only had a little bit of pink wire left and decided to see if I could make even spirals, coils, and bead cages. Result-- pretty whimsical little things.

 I LOVE THE PARASOL! Is it bad to be so excited about something I made? 

I used all of my new techniques and it's so pretty. Pinks and golds... It looks like a parasol or seashell. And it's on one of of my 4-strand ribbons and hangs fairly long and I was so tempted to keep it for myself...

 A fairy bracelet cuff...

 Wirewrapped bracelet... My little sister called it a Princess Bracelet.

This bracelet features handmade wire beads! It's inspired by Steampunk, but I think it's also very fantasy looking, what'dya thunk?