Oh Tannenbaum

Oh Tannenbaum

I have been thinking about this design for about a year. Last year I was looking for pictures to base Christmas earrings on. I knew I wanted to a Christmas tree and I saw a Christmas tree like this and couldn’t figure out how to do it. Then this year I discovered craft wire and there you have it.

 

You might remember three weeks ago I was saying I needed a tool and some materials. I decided to make the tool instead of buying one and the materials I ordered took five weeks to arrive. Well the wire finally arrived but I had to contact the vendor and let them know I never received it. They sent out another batch. I finally buckled down to make the tool only to find that it didn’t really work the way I wanted it to. The problem with my homemade tool was that I couldn’t get the finished product off of the tool. In the end I figured it out but it took several days to get right.

I tried a few different designs until I found the one I was happy with. This is one of the trials I did. Part of the problem was I didn’t want them to be too big. I also wanted the option of adding beads for decorations if I wanted. But in the end I decided not to add them.

As I said last week the earrings I made for last Christmas took weeks to get right. Once I made them the way I wanted them I found the paint came off. So I ended up having to pretreat them all and then seal them so the paint didn’t come off. So I am determined to make this year’s designs easier for me which will be less costly for you.

I suppose this is a good time to let you all know that the journey is making another stop. This time a MacMillan  Nurses Christmas Bazaar once again at the Wraysbury village hall. It will be Saturday November 26 from 10am to noon. They will be serving coffee, tea and cakes and having a raffle. So make sure you stop by and see us. Purchases made in person save postage!

£3.75 including shipping within the UK. $8.53 including shipping to the US

Jacqueline Frost

Elegant Snow woman

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This was the original post I wrote for last week. CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!!

Two weeks ago  I was out of sorts, turns out I was coming down with a cold. I did finally make my butternut squash soup along with Carrot and Coriander (that’s Cilantro in the States) soup. Since I was under the weather I didn’t get out much. And my materials still haven’t come. I contacted the vendor and they are sending out another set so hopefully I’ll have it by the end of the week.

Hopefully you noticed that I put up a few albums on the Dangling Journey's Facebook page. While I was loading the pictures I realized that I had a Christmas idea that I’d forgotten about. So since my new materials haven’t arrived I made these for this week.

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Last Christmas I made really creative artsy earrings. It was fun but actually took a lot of work because the material I used didn’t like to be painted so I had to treat them before painting and after so the paint would stay on. This year I decided to make more abstract designs for Christmas. I even made an Ice Snowman pair.

 

I saw a similar pair to these while I was looking at earrings to make for the wedding collection. In a way they are very similar to one of the wedding earrings but because of the different sized pearls it resembles a snowman.

Crystal Jacqueline Frost only £4.00 including shipping to the UK. $8.75 including shipping to the US.

Vivacious!

 

This is a great example of one of a kind jewelry just for you.

 

Last week I created some photo albums on TheDangling Journey’s Facebook page. My sister saw this pair in the wedding album. I told her I wore them to my wedding which she attended. So she asked if I could do them in Black … Voila!

In place of the pearls I used Onyx beads. And just like the wedding earrings these feature Czech crystal Chambala beads, crystal rondelle spacers and the Swarovski peardrop. Of course they are called Aisha after my lovely and vivacious (which is what Aisha means) sister. She said these earrings are her to a tee. I couldn’t be happier.

You too can have one of a kind jewelry made just for you. And as long as my supplier keeps their next day order turnaround I can get the earrings to you in 1-2 weeks depending on your location.

I actually had something else planned to post for today but since the supplies came in right away I decided to post these especially. This years Christmas line  will be starting next week.

£12.50 including UK shipping, $20.00 including US shipping

Out of sorts

 

I have been really out of sorts for the past week. First off I ordered some supplies online for my Christmas designs and most of them haven’t arrived yet. I couldn’t order them from the supplier I usually use and this supplier said the materials would arrive a week ago. I also discovered a few weeks ago that I needed a special tool to do what I have planned, but after researching the tool I came to the conclusion that I could make my own easily and save the money, it could potentially be an expensive tool. I have just about all the things I need to make the special tool but I haven’t felt like making it, and it isn’t a hard thing to do – at all! Finally I have a recipe I want to make and we bought the ingredients for it so I need to make it before the ingredients go bad but I just don’t feel like it. Every day I get up intending to do these things but then Neil says “Oh, it’s a nice day we should go ____” and I say okay when I know I have things I need to do. You can read about our outings here. Or I plan to do them after I do some chores but when the chores are done, I just want to relax.

Monday came and I hadn’t made any earrings for this week. So I started digging in a container I keep finished earrings and I saw a bunch of things I’d done a few months ago, in the early spring actually. I just purchased the craft wire and I found videos on designs to make. I made two from watching the videos but they were very difficult to make, so difficult in fact that I’ve forgotten how to make them. So on Monday I made my own design based on them. The craft wire is so delicate that you can’t over work it or you will ruin the finished product. And as with any handmade thing you can never make two that are exactly the same. Each one, each side even are slightly different.

So I’m hoping that by next week I’ll have gotten my act together; cooked the yummy fall soup, made my tool and produced my first holiday design. Keep your fingers crossed!

£4.25 including shipping to the UK, $7.75 including shipping to the US.