Autumn - necklace and earrings

summer is still here, but I already look forward to my favourite season


Red, brown and very nostalgic :)

And warm...

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Lavender, orange and lime - life is perfect!

Lately I am having a "coloful earrings" mood :)
meet my new babies - all crocheted with cotton yarn. Up-cycled wooden beads serve as a basis.

Lavender :)

Orange :)

Lime :)

As always - everything is for sale in my cozy shop.
Every pair is $16.5 free shipping, but you can get any pair of earrings for freee with the purchase of two necklaces :)

Taking photos

everyone knows that taking good photos is essential, especially if you expose your product online and not in a real live shop.
And so keeping an online shop is a constant process on working with your images, improving the angles, experimenting with backgrounds, waiting for good light, mastering photoshop.

The photoshop part is a bit too much for me. I usually add light and contrast to my images, but ideally I would like to master photoshop so that I could play with the depth of field, designing new backgrounds etc. But well, since I am not a graphical designer, I know just the simplest actions. My plan is to really invest time and effort in it - take books from library, download online workshops.

But let me show you how (in my opinion) the angles of my photos have improved. Let's take the photo of my crocheted earrings.

The first two are "before" pictures. They are not awful, but could be improved.
This one is good because it shoes the exact size of the earrings. But the light is bad!

This image "earrings hanging on the glass" is not a bad idea, but in my case I think it is badly done. The white ballance should be fixed and I find proportions of the mug a bit wrong. Also this matte
This photo on the page of an old book is much much better then the first two. The background is quite, but not plain. The depth of field is shallow, with makes the earrings in the very focus of the image. And the light is neutral - the color of the earrings is exactly like they are in life.

Should earrings be photoed on models? Good question. Those who are against this claim that buyers are turned off by seeing their potential purchase being worn by someone else. But believe me, those who will be turned off are minority, more customers will be attracted to a beautiful model, showing how exactly these earrings will be worn.
But since this issue of taking pictures of earrings on the models is sensitive, make sure that yours is outstanding. So that you definitely can attract more customers than those you will probably turn off. Create a lifestyle in your pictures - the lifestyle that your product represents. In this particular case it is - gentle, innocent, graceful, old-fashioned, beautiful with a touch of fairytale.

And the last tip - if you make several copies of the same item - mention in the description that the item on the model is just for visualization. You customer will receive a completely new and unworn item.

Lemon Curd earrings

These ones are very very LEMON :)

The beads were once part of an old necklace. I crocheted around them with ecological cotton yarn.
I love them :)

Little pumpkins in your years :)

I need some Halloween :) Do you?


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Orange and Turquoise

Another experiment - mixing orange and turquoise.
Let's prepare for Halloween in a happy way :)





If you click on the images, you will be forwarded to my shop.
The price for the necklace / bracelet is $23.5 Free shipping
Earrings - $12.5 Free shipping
If you purchase the set, it will cost $32, see the details in my shop

Spice up your autumn!

Yes, here comes the spicy one!
Inspired by warm August dinners and the colors of coming September.
Striking combination of mustard yellow and sparkling red drops... Final touch - olive and whiskey colored faceted glass beads and crystal pieces.
Enjoy the best season of the year!

Earrings with feathers - orange

How could my shop stayed without feathers for a month!

Here they are back :)

Unbearably light :)

sunny beach collection :)

and here is my new direction - whites and blues.
The more it brings summer to you - the better

Amber magic

Well, as promised, I started a new amber collection - as a way to celebrate sunnier days coming :)
I loved working with amber - having a handfull of "golden" sparkling and warm pieces. Just look at the way they respond to the sun beams - it is real magic :)
Besides chips of natural Baltic amber I also used my favourite glass cubes, and other glass and wooden beads.





Both earrings and necklace / bracelet are available for sale in my Etsy shop

Finally blueberry!!

Finally I had enough time to make a matching pair of earrings for my favourite "Emily's blueberry dreams". Here is the necklace / bracelet

And here are the earrings: I made two pair - with different shades and array of glass and wooden beads.


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Trying to feel the spring coming :)

There can never be too much green, can it?

Two new sets - foresty green and green with purple.

Let's talk earrings :)

I made a few lately - what I love about earrings is that they are fun to make and it takes much less time than a necklace. And they look unusual!








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Berry theme

Juicy earrings - mmm

Crocheted earrings - blue and brown

Long and noticeable, but also light (due to wooden beads) and gentle (due to airy crocheted chain)

A dominating item in your outfit! Infinitely summer feeling, that will warm you up during long winter evenings!

They are 8.5 cm (3.3 inches) long (without earwire).Metal earwires (for the cost of an additional dollar can be changed to sterling silver ones).

Please, notice, that it is possible to purchase only 1 earring instead of the pair. In such a case, the price will be $5 (shipping details stay the same). Just comvo me prior to buying if you're interested in purchasing only 1 earring.

This item on etsy

price - $8
(plus shipping, unless you live in Stockholm, in which case I do a free delivery)

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Earrings, earrings, earrings.

Had put my earrings on today, and they had a success :)

People actually did like them! And why should they not? Actually very cute, made with love and devotion. I would never expect myself to be so proud to wear my own jewelry and to actually promote it - I am completely proud of it's quality, it's design, it's materials and the message it conveys. Well, otherwise I would never have dared to open a shop :)


I am keeping my fingers crossed. I really want it to turn out a success, which will make so many many people happy! And I will make everything possible to make it come true. A little casual Monday resolution :)


And here is an illustration of today -

EARRRRRRRINGS.....