3/31/2012

Phew! Time sure is flying around here. Even though spring technically only began a few weeks ago, it feels like summer is already making her presence known!
I'm working on a little nice little projects, and expect the shop to get a little more tidy over the next few days.
I will be having a sale soon to make room for some new inventory coming soon, so look forward to that!

Hearts in March

It's been pretty quiet around here lately. I've been mostly working on things around the house and a few other non-jewelry projects, but it was time to settle down and get down to work!
I've been experimenting with a few new ideas lately, trying to mix up what's in the shop. I've decided that I should make more of my own chains. It's time consuming but totally worth it!

 The Hearts necklace is already up in the shop! I found this gorgeous faceted green amethyst heart and went nuts! I wasn't even really sure what I was going to use it for and almost used it in the solitaires collection but now I'm glad I paired it up with some lavender quartz, pink topaz, and rose quartz. I hung it from a hand-linked chain with more of that hot pink topaz. I think it came out pretty great and will make the perfect gift for any woman who needs a little love!

Also up in the Etsy shop is this glamorous baby! I came across this oval pearl while visiting one of my favorite supply stores and couldn't resist. It's the palest shade of gold and was the last one! I decided to keep it simple to show off the wonderful color. All I added was a gold fill bead wedged between the pearl and the vermeil headpin to match the tiny vermeil beads on the satellite chain. Great for a wedding detail or for any outfit! I'm excited to add it to the collection of uniquely shaped and colored pearls at Silver Fox Gems!

Solitary Creatures

New in the shop today is a small collection of solitaire earrings. I found these gems to be irresistible, but also found that they were too gorgeous on their own to add anything to.

 The fist are the Sunflower earrings! Perfect now that the weather is heating up, these flower cut citrine briolettes are wrapped in gold fill wire on gold fill earwires. They make me wish it was summer already.

And gorgeous ametrine emerald cut briolettes hang from gold fill earrwires for a stunning set. THey look like the point where light turns to dark in a sunset.
Look for these in my shop, and look for more in the future if I find more gem sets that need no other gems to look so elegant!
Silver Fox Gems on Etsy

Exciting Things!

As promised (a few days late), my mother's bracelet that I made for her and some new additions to the shop.
I wanted to make my mother something nice because she really is one of my biggest supporters, and she is a very glamorous woman with exquisite taste. That being said, it was challenging to make her something because she is a woman who knows exactly what she wants and exactly what she likes and I'm not always spot on in picking what she likes. I decided to go with a color scheme I have seen her use a million times. It's a safe bet, but it is nonetheless a beautiful pallete.

I would also like to add I designed this with the help of my stepfather (who also paid for it) so this is completely a family made gift. I'm pretty pleased with the results. The large stones are mystic champagne quartz and in between the large nuggets are clusters of tundra sapphire, black spinel, and garnet. I love the way the larger spinel and garnet onion briolettes almost look like berries, which is further accentuated by the wine, orange, grey, and pink of the tundra sapphires. A gold fill toggle finishes it off.
Mom loved it, and I'm glad she now has a nice piece to wear out for brunch with girlfriends or for when she goes out to dinner. I also made her small earrings with similar stones for a matching set, but wasn't able to snag a picture of those.
Unfortunately, the strand was only big enough for one bracelet but I plan on getting more of these mystic champagne nuggets in the future, so similar designs are possible.

In other Silver Fox news, there are new pieces up for sale in the Etsy shop.

First up is my rose quartz and pearl cluster earrings, designed for spring weddings. The pearls dangle off of vermeil headpins and hang from gold fill ear wires.

This one is becoming one of my all-time favorites. A huge faceted London Blue topaz is topped off by a cluster of apatite, emerald, tundra sapphire, black and mutlicolor spinel, rose quartz, lavender quartz, and grey moonstone. It sits under a champagne citrine coin bauble andhangs from a gorgeous gold fill chain.

You may recognize these nuggets from my mother's bracelet above. I couldn't stand letting the few pieces I had left to unused, so I set these on vermeil headpins with a gold fill bead on the end for a finished look and topped them off with clusters of multicolor rose and pink spinel, rose quartz buttom rondelles, and shiney black spinel. They sit on gold fill French ear wires. I'm pretty happy with how they look, so nugget earrings may be making a few more appearances in the shop!

All of these pieces are available now in the shop and are ready to ship out.

Rain, rain, go away

The weather down here turned pretty nasty today. I still got some pretty important work done though, seeing as tomorrow is my mother's birthday! Unfortunately I couldn't get a picture of her gift, but I will snag one tomorrow when the weather is better.
Until then, dreaming of nicer weather and bigger flowers!

Arm Adornments

We now have a ring and a bracelet up in the shop, with more coming! Stop by and see the new Hydrangea Ring in spring confetti:

It's in a size 7, though future rings will be in varying sizes. Also in the store: my quartz cluster bracelet! It features large pale green mystic quartz nuggets with citrine and gold fill bead clusters overflowing between them. It measure about 8 inches from toggle to toggle.

Stop by and see them both!
Silver Fox Gems on Etsy