Last Summer Outing & Beaded Copper Fall Leaf Necklace

I made this gorgeous Fall Leaf Necklace with Earrings and never had time to post about it in here last week. I posted it on my Etsy site.

We took some time last week to spend with our granddaughter and took her to North Shore Lake Tahoe. There is a beautiful beach there and it’s a great place to take the family for a day at the beach and picnic lunch. The sand is soft and it’s gorgeous there.
After we play on the beach and in the lake we go for a walk and have some Dryers Ice Cream. She loves to go and it’s kind of a special thing my husband and I do with her now each year.
We all love going each year. For us it’s less then a 2 hour drive. My granddaughter and I also went to the zoo one day and made some candy. She starts back to school tomorrow.

~Kat

New Fall Leaf Wine Charms in 4 Colors

They’re’ back! Swarovski Crystal Fall Leaf Wine Charms, this time in four fabulous fall colors. Purchase a half set of which is four or the full set of 8. Add a wine bangle to go over the top of your wine bottle on the half set for $1.50 extra.

These wine charms are top of the line made with the finest crystals in the world! Swarovski Crystals outshine the rest and are well worth the extra price when making your jewelry and trinket purchases.

You can find the wine charms here.

Add them to Wine Bangles to decorate your wine bottle.

Until Next Time Have a Super Great Week! ~Kat

Photo Shop & Hand-Made Jewelry

What does photo Shop and Jewelry have to do with one another? well lots because every piece of Jewelry Art you put out needs a good photographer and a good program to edit the photo in. I use both Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 and Photo Shop Elements newest version for Mac. I am still learning Photo Shop Elements since I got my Imac earlier this year. There is so much to learn that I need a book to learn it all. No book came with the program.

Today I played around in the Photo Shop and did a Cut Out and then put a background behind one of my pups Effie and me. I have another pup Edie. They have their own blog.

This week was so busy, but I made a beautiful bracelet using Right Angle Weave. I made 10 Beads using the technique with some Copper Beads, Copper Bead Caps and Chain. I then made some matching earrings and again it was sold before I could post it to my Jewelry Website Krystal Kat’s.

The bracelet was made in all the colors of beads used in a Psalm 23 The Lord is My Shepherd Bracelet found on my website.

Though I do not presently have a this particular bracelet for sale on my website in copper I am happy to make any custom orders if anyone is interested just let me know?

Once I learned the stitch I had fun creating a few fun things. I am working on Fall Jewelry and so I will just keep posting little bits and pieces of what I make new each week in here.

Here is the Cut Out from Photo Shop I did today. I forgot my dogs tail but it seems to look okay cause she might have had her tail down? who knows right?! I made the photo very large to show the detail of how nice the background came out. Really Cool Stuff!!

And here is the before photo. I am still learning but turned out okay excpet my hair looks funny I had it pinned up and it’s very curly.

Well until next time have a great Saturday night! ~Kat

Making Beads with Beads

It was my daughter Kirsten’s birthday this weekend and I had quite a few orders to fill today and yesterday so there was no time to post in my new Jewelry Blog until today. So here I am with just a tiny bit of what I got done last week. 

For one I had made my daughter a cute necklace as one of her presents. Shown below a cute Swarovski Crystal Green Beaded Necklace with Bugle Beads, Seed Beads and Cat’s Eye Beads. The Focal point is either a 5 point star or a flower. I tried to make it with 5 points and it didn’t work out right. 

I had also made these really cute Skull Earrings to sell online at my Jewelry Website Krystal Kat’s, but they were bought before I could even get them online. I think these are really cute and I will try to make them again and get some more online. I had made one pair in Pink Swarovski Crystals and the other in AB Black Swarovski Crystals.  

On Saturday before I left for the birthday party, I had time to learn a new beading technique. I took 12 Swarovski Crystals and made a bead with them. The end result is pretty cool! I will have to add some more photos of how I started out and made it look like it does right now.  

Have a wonderful Tuesday! ~Kat