Bernadette [Update] - SOLD

[Update] Forgot to mention that these are my only pair of clay beads in this design. So it's a one piece only creation. Don't hesitate to grab it if it's already calling for your heart. Also cloisonne butterflies can be customised if you prefer the pair in one colour.

I've teamed these purple polymer clay beads with similar cloisonne butterflies, a black and a white. This kind of reminds me of chinese tales? mythology? (I can't think of the right word, if you can help me out) We chinese believe that there is a pair of black and white ghosts that come to collect your soul when you pass away. Also when you see moths/butterflies in your room it means that a soul has come back to look for you. Sorry for the rather dark twist towards these pretties. Especially the polymer clay beads with sparkles of pink and the sweet mocha-ish petals hiding shyly beneath the luxuriant green leaves.

Diandra

Diandra is an american name for unique and this piece sure lives up to it's name. The only 6 beautiful rose tile beads in the world by Karin and twisted black czech glass nuggets. When I was modelling it, it looked rather cool, something to wear to funk up your normal t-shirt and denim skirt combi or something with a nice white shirt with pants. Yep you can dress up and dress down with it. Unfortunately somehow we just didn't manage to get the effect. I've double threaded the beads on black stretchable thread. Will fit a 7" wrist, however there will be no lengthening of this cuff bracelet as these are the only 6 rose bloom tile beads in the world. Yep you heard it right, the only one.

[Update] I've now selfishly kept the only piece for myself. But only because someone paid for it in full. Hehe.

Sheila - SOLD

Sheila tops the pretty turquoise teardrops with a pearlescent shell bead. A pity the shell bead was overexposed and caught too much light. The shell beads are really pretty! Total length excluding earhooks: 4cm

Insect Love - SOLD

Nope no creepy crawlies, just some cute little dragonflies in pewter and acrylic, enameled ladybugs, pewter butterflies and small dainty pewter flowers. 6 3/4" in length, toggle closure. Wrist length can be customised. I can picture it sitting pretty on a young girl's wrist, or as the name of this creation suggests, someone who loves these little cute bugs.

Customizations

Customizations for a classmate's niece. I personally like the 1st bracelet especially that clear glass bead with pink waves through it. But I also like the 2nd bracelet for it's design, simply coz it is something different. =)

Luanne - Sold

Luanne uses 8mm pearls capped with 3mm gold bicone Swarovski crystals. Fully adjustable gold plated chain "rope" burning on both ends with mauve & cream Swarovski pearls. Earrings can be adjusted from a minimum of 5cm to a maximum of 7.5cm excluding earhooks. I've been toying with this "rope" design for some time in my mind, finally found the perfect piece to execute it. Perhaps more to come!

Lucille - SOLD

Hopefully you can see this picture clearly. Lucille's focal uses 8mm Swarovski pearls capped with 3mm gold bicone Swarovski crystals. A chain of love letters hang below in crystal, white opal, black diamond and jet envelopes. Earhooks & chain are gold plated. Length excluding earhooks: 4.5cm.

Rozene - SOLD

Jonquil, light rose & fire opal Swarovski crystals resemble sunshine cheer dangling off clay roses. Earhooks, hoop & chain are gold-plated. Length excluding earhooks: 3.5cm. Rozene is Violet's cousin, gold hoop can be excluded and vice versa.

New Links & Updates

I've posted up a new link, Angelicious Creations on the left. She does rather nifty wirework stuff and they're really pretty! She provides lessons on wirework as well, if you're interested drop her an email or something. Support local crafts!

Another link is Karin's Kamoe-Clay Design, she is the source of the beautiful polymer clay beads that you see on my works recently. If you buy a polymer clay creation you're supporting two crafters, what a wonderful way to 'pay it forward'.

I'm still thinking of whether I should come up with a Valentine's Day collection as my brain doesn't seem to be churning out ideas that are related to V-day when I stare at my beads. I'm still making earrings, just not very V-day-ish. There will be V-day promos, just let me get down to working it out while juggling my school work, so give me a bit of time. Customizations are available, but try to drop me an email earlier so that I don't get too jammed up nearing the date, as I'd be submitting assignments around that time too.

In the meantime look around, drop me an email, leave a comment, make contact. =)

Love,
Dawne
-transmission complete-

Irena - SOLD

Irena is yet another polymer clay creation with a name of german origin. I've topped the ice bloom lentils with black diamond, alabaster & crystal bicone swarovski crystals.

Carlotta - SOLD

Update: I've changed the crystal that topped the polymer clay from rose alabaster to fuchsia.

I've named this pair of earrings Carlotta, a name of german origin, because the polymer clay beads were handmade by a talented german lady, Karin. Also Carlotta being the name of one of the characters to my favourite musical, Phantom of the Opera. The polymer clay lentils are capped with gold and fuchsia crystals of different sizes. Right at the top of it all is a glass bead with colour swirls that match the colours used in the polymer clay bead. Frankly speaking the glass bead was the first batch of beads that I bought and I thought I'd never be able to use it at all. Amazingly it match the beautiful polymer clay beads so well. A very plesant surprise indeed. Karin describes her lentil beads the best, "Pink/red flowers, green leaves and aquablue swirled on a frost and icy light blue basic. Look at the silver foil to give the imagination of crackling ice ;-))"

Kawena - SOLD

Kawena means sunrise in hawaiian and this bracelet is a bright cherry piece for hitting the beaches to catch the sunrise. A matching bracelet for Caribbean Dreams, this bracelet uses similar materials with the addition of a treasure chest charm, topaz and gold bicone swarovski crystals, red resin bead, light colorado topaz round swarovski crystal. The highlight still belongs to the 15mm turquoise teardrop, which accompanied by the shell beads brings to mind images of white sandy beaches and clear blue water. Gold plated chain will be adjusted accordingly to your wrist.

Trina - SOLD

Trina is a blue-themed earring with a blue pressed glass cube with gold trimmings, blue czech glass beads and tensha with blue rose blooms. They are the exact length although the right looks a little shorter due to the card it was hung on. Total length excluding ear hooks: 4cm

Eliyana - SOLD

Eliyana hangs a 15mm turquoise teardrop within a gold plated teardrop frame on dainty french hooks. These pretty turquoise teardrops are rather rare, since most of the time I only see them in other shapes. So I was rather delighted to find these teardrops in such good quality during my Christmas trip to KL.

Turquoise have been worn as natural protection against the powers of darkness in the past. In modern gemstone therapy, those suffering from depression are recommended to wear a turquoise or a chain with turquoise beads. The turquoise' cheerful colour is said to endow reticent personalities with more confidence. It is also often given as a gift, a stone of friendship, for the turquoise is said to be responsible for faithfulness and constancy in relationships.
Source: ICA

Caribbean Dreams - SOLD

Doesn't this piece evoke images of white sandy beaches as you bask in the warm sunshine with a pina colada in hand soaking up the idyllic atmosphere of the caribbean beaches. This beauty will attempt to seduce you from the real world with a combination of pink shell beads, a 15mm turquoise teardrop, 14K gold charm & a creamy white pearl. Chain available separately.

Eliza - SOLD

Eliza is such a cutie who refused to allow me to pigeon hole her, instead letting you choose what you want to turn her into. A pair of earrings? A bag or handphone charm? Or a pendant with a gold hoop around her? She says I don't get to choose. A japanese maroon glass bead is the evil bead putting ideas into Eliza's head. Cloisonne butterfly dangles a 6mm light azore swarovski crystal, that insists on a pink butterfly glass bead as company. Chains are 14K gold plated. Total length of Eliza: 4.5cm.

Lisa - SOLD

Lisa's white cloisonne ring holds a gold spacer bead, creamrose swarovski pearl and a gold bicone swarvoski crystal. While creamish white pearls of different sizes, with the slightly bigger accented by another gold swarovski crystal, dangles of the ring of treasures. I will try to take another picture that will capture the gold tone of the crystal inside the coin. But the weather doesn't seem to be cooperative these few days. -cross fingers- Total length excluding ear hooks: almost 4cm.

Jonelle - SOLD

Jonelle has been updated with a star shaped head pin instead of the normal flat headpins previously. Jonelle marries cloisonne and ceramic beads for a somewhat peranakan look. Kinda chinois without screaming chinese new year.

Present for the little girl

This bracelet is a birthday present for my little cousin. She'll turn 6 this year on saturday. Very sweet little darling who hugs me and showers me with love all the time. I've used czech baby blue glass beads, green acrylic beads with silver stars, pink ceramic beads spaced with light pink seed beads for this creation. Find it quite sweet, hopefully it doesn't slip off her wrist as the accomodations for an adult's wrist and a child's wrist for bracelets are slightly different. Must remind myself to bring a camera to take some pictures this saturday. Her mom's a talented crafter as well, the box in the picture for Sakura was made by her, she used to make lovely embossed cards and she bakes wonderful cakes and muffins! I am so lucky to have them as my family. =)

Sakura - SOLD

A dainty black quartz teardrop dangling off the black cloisonne ring with pretty cherry blossoms that marks the arrival of spring. Right timing for these pretty blooms. Cherry blossoms are a symbol of ephemeral beauty in Japan. Hopefully this serves as a reminder to us all that beauty does not last and like life, transient, and to cherish what we have now rather than til it's gone.

Lavinia

A gold twist frame encases the pretty pearls that a classmate of mine, AT, gave to me. I've used french hooks to hold up these elegant beauties. Simply stunning and very pretty for evening wear.

Gina - SOLD

Gina's beauty lies in the japanese glass bead that is similar to Renetta's. I simply love the details of the beads with it's white streaks and varying red hues. This time it's capped with gold bicone swarovski crystals with a creamrose swarovski pearl. The pearl looks a little mauve in the picture but it's really more brownish (a leeeeeeeeetle bit). I can't find the right colour to describe the actual colour.

Johanna - SOLD

Think Johanna looks and sounds familiar? That's because you've seen her from before. Only thing is she's gone for a makeover and looks more demure now. Baby blue czech glass beads, pretty bloom on the tensha bead with turquoise and rose alabaster swarovski crystals adorning the dainty feet of Johanna.

Beatrice - SOLD

Beatrice looks regal in the deep royal blue tone and I have to admit I've fallen in love with blue once again. You know how when you were young, everybody's favourite colour was blue so was yours. A very simple creation, I've allowed the cloisonne beads to steal your breath while the lapis lazuli bead sits on top quietly, like a demure princess waiting for her prince charming to come. Princess Beatrice won't settle for anything less.

Celeste - SOLD

Celeste uses czech faceted white glass beads interspersed with pink glass donuts and capped with milky white rice beads. All beads strung on rhodium 2.5cm diameter hoop. Simple and pretty hoops which would definitely brighten up your outfit simply by smiling daintily on your ears.

Violet - SOLD

Violet uses clay roses and different coloured crystals hanging off a single 14K gold plated chain. Very spring fresh and sweet. As the weather turns drier, the roses bloom into beauties for the new year ahead. Cousin of Rozene, gold hoop can be added.

Candice

Wooden hoops with glitter encircling three different coloured pearls. The cream coloured potato pearl is obscured by the burgundy and bronze pearls. Didn't have another chance to take another photo as I've already gifted this to a relative for Christmas. Hopefully she likes it. In fact I was so forgetful that I can't even remember the name of the earring, since Candice is the first name that popped into my mind, Candice it is.

Happy New Year

May the New Year usher in peace and the hope of new beginnings! We've just placed on order for beautiful Kamoe-Clay beads from Karin in Germany. Beautiful beginnings for beautiful days ahead! The FAQ section is finally up and if you'd like any features, just drop me a mail and I'll see what I can do. Back to making earrings.

Love,
Dawne

Cherry Blossoms - SOLD

A sweet pink number from top to toe. The ceramic beads with handpainted cherry blossoms is capped by swarovski crystals of varying hues and opacity/translucency, while a pink clay bead with little pink, white lined squares prettifying the bead. Although it may seem a tad too pinkish, it's not just for the demure girl, but also the girl who likes mixing old and new, and a different touch to the cloyingly sweet pink beads.

Perla - SOLD

Perla is the spanish word for pearls, I know it seems like I don't have much creativity in naming my earrings, so please pardon me. These are swarovski pearls which have been made to imitate real pearls. Ultimately they are still crystals beneath, but they are able to imitate how real pearls adapt to skin warmth therefore the premium as compared to normal glass pearl beads. Hanging on different lenths of 14k gold plated chain are light creamrose and bronze coloured pearls, with a drop of 4cm excluding ear hooks.

Renee - SOLD

Renee is definitely simple but stunning, my favourite favourite piece. Ok I like simple designs so shoot me. Heh. Gold hoops (3.5cm across) with turqoise chips. Funky, elegant, classy. I've made one for myself but there are still 2 more pairs available.

Jamie - SOLD

Pressed glass beads and gold acrylic beads were combined to exude elegance and sass. Attention grabbing piece at work or at play. Gold discs are 2.5cm in diameter and the drop excluding earhooks is 4cm.

Vienna - SOLD

Vienna would not lose its lustre in a black and white movie, with the shine of the quartz briolette and elegance of the filligree capped howlite beads. Interestingly howlite is used to to calm and reduce tension. It's also purported to aid creativity. Maybe we should get the government to give a howlite stone to each household to become more creative and think out of the box. Entire drop is 3cm excluding 925 silver ear hooks.

Ariel - SOLD

Rich burgundy glass disc (2cm across) topped with a faux pearl with a pretty shiny sandstone dangling off it. Sandstones are essentially quartz and are rather hardy materials. In fact they're even used in buildings! The Taj Mahal was originally constructed with red sandstone, so this quartz has gone places! Entire drop excluding ear hooks is 4cm.

Opulence

I guess these necklace designs are rather in vogue lately so I've customized these necklaces for my aunt who will gift them to her nieces. An angel charm was used but it doesn't seem to show up very well in this picture. A black quartz briolette and 2 swarovski crystals in different sizes top off to make this suitable for someone who's young and modern without looking too 'old'. You know how some designs look really classic and as a result ages you. We don't really want that for an 18 yo girl do we.

Girlish Secrets

Girlish Secrets comes with lock and key charms, cloisonne butterfly and a glass bead with a 3.5cm gold ring to top off this sweet creation. Necklace is 9" with a lobster clasp to lock everything together. It's customized for a sweet 14 yo girl. Hopefully she likes this necklace and if you're the recipient drop a comment to say hi or something. =)

Christmas Sale

Yes in less than 2 weeks time, Christmas will be here. So Earring Addict is celebrating with all of you by slashing its prices on all the earrings and necklaces you see. Most of my earlier collection with lots of crystals on hoops are now going for $6, use them as wine charms, as a gift to a friend or as door gifts to your Christmas party. Other earrings without price revisions will have a 10% discount just for this special season, yes even the new designs! So hurry up and grab it all before it's all sold out!

I'll also be away from the 23rd - 26th, so if you want anything don't wait til the last minute. Have a Merry Merry Christmas!

Love,
Dawne

Radiance - SOLD

Radiance was a naughty girl who refused to look pretty against a white background so she was shot against a bright red postcard which incidentally was a brochure for the Arts Festival in Y2K. I couldn't resist the design of the postcard that i decided not to crop it out of the picture. Rose quartz butterflies are carved with faux pearls dangling off it. Chain and parts 925 silver.

Pink of Health *Updated version

Pink of Health is a deviation from the names that I usually use to name my creations, but the blushing pink of the carved cherry quartz butterflies made the word pink flashed so many times in my mind that I decided to name it as so. Especially since the aventurine cones are supposed to aid sleep, lack of sleep will lead to ill health so there you go. Was supposed to just pick up some beads to remake something for a classmate but I ended up buying lots of beads! All parts are brass, and nickel-free (good news for peeps with sensitive ears).

**I've updated the design to include a peridot jasper because I just noticed that if you looked at the earrings from far the carved butterfly doesn't seem to show much of it's transclucency and looked rather opaque and orange. So from far the entire earrings just looks like a single colour - orange. But you're still welcome to purchase either one, or as is displayed in the picture. The peridot jasper is capped with brass filligree. The drop for the updated version is 5cm/2inches excluding the earhooks and the original is 4cm/approx. 1.5inches.

Retail Price: SGD20/SGD23

Renetta - SOLD

Renetta's got the warm, plush look for this christmas season. Wear it with your Santarina hat or LBD and paint the town red! Japanese glass beads hanging on a 14K gold chain, with a crown of topaz and siam swarovski crystals.

Larissa - SOLD

Larissa is for the sweetie pie with the baby blue and baby pink colour combination. The faceted baby blue briolette is crowned with rose and rose alabaster crystals with the glass rose atop. It kinda looks like a stick girl with the round head and triangle skirts.

Work Schedule

From now on I'll keep to a schedule of making earrings on the weekends. Of course any orders or customization requests are accepted any day of the week. Hopefully i'll be able to churn out more earrings for the festive season for you and your loved ones (pressies for them! *wink*) !

Love,
Dawne

P.S.: I'll be working this coming weekend so watch out for the following weekend instead! My sincere apologies for the bad news after the good news.

Shannon - SOLD

Shannon isn't as photogenic as I had expected her to be. The faceted czech glass bead is a royal blue which looks better if you saw her face to face. Rhodium heart encrusted with swarovski crystals, with the royal blue being the focus colour of this earring. Earring hooks are rhodium which means people with sensitive ears can bring this home too! One piece only. Although I have a similar one with fuchsia and pink crystals coming up soon. I'd have to search for a nice bead to match it though.

Fiorella - SOLD

Pale green glass roses with opaque baby blue czech glass beads, rose & violet Swarovski cystals dangling off it. Fiorella kinda reminds me of spring with all the pastel colour combinations. The second picture is a more accurate picture of the roses.

Johanna

Johanna is tickled pink from all the compliments that she's the prettiest rose in the bunch. Of course being the prettiest means you get all the attention with gifts of turquoise and rose alabaster crystals. She even has suiters all the way from Czechoslovakia bearing blue glass beads to win her heart. No wonder Johanna is blushing.

Retail Price: SGD12

Kalyca - SOLD

Kalyca uses an oval tensha bead as the focus, topped with rose alabaster 4mm & fuchsia 3mm Swarovski crystals. Very english, lovely for the afternoon tea with scones and a flouncy dress.

Tabitha - SOLD

Close-up

2 black crystals cap the black tensha bead, while 925 silver chain accents are tipped with a 4mm Swarovski crystal. The top feature is dark while the bottom catches the light effortlessly for an interesting contrast. Total length excluding ear hooks is 5.8cm, perfect for the long necked. Last piece!


Retail Price: SGD 12

Farfalla - SOLD

Papillon's cousin is matched with iredescent blue crystals that turn purplish in the day. I've tried very hard to capture the blue at night, but it eludes me. So to see the blue you'd have to catch it with your own eyes.

Meris - SOLD

Meris comes from the sea bearing a brown mother of pearl donut, cultured pearls and mother of pearl squares. Although you may be tempted to go near the sea with Meris constantly calling for her home, she can be easily soothed by afternoon catch-up with the girlfriends, shopping trips and fancy dinners. Length excluding ear hooks: 4cm.