I got the eye of the tiger!

Tiger eye stones makes me wanna sing Katy Perry's Roar but also at the same time reminds me of Rocky Balboa.

I happened to find nice tiger eye chips in a craft store in Semarang, Toko Satria, for Rp 15k/string. That is less than a dollar. I just had to buy two strings.

At Toko Satria's sister store, Ratu Paksi, I found round tiger beads in different sizes. I bought a 6mm tiger eye beads string for Rp 35k and also-if I'm not mistaken-a 14mm one for Rp 75k. It is way, way, wayyyyy cheaper to buy tiger eyes in strings because once it becomes a bracelet or any other jewelry, the cost of it is equal, or maybe more expensive than buying it in strings. I also bought assortments of other natural stone beads. It's so darn easy to spend money in those stores. Bead hoarder I am!

I turned the tiger eye chips into a ring, which looks a bit too big and messy for me but somehow my senior. who lives in Yangon, Myanmar, loved it and wanted one. So then I made one for her and also added another ring (which the stone she gave me from Yangon) and a dangly pair of earring.

Oh, funny thing is that although tiger eye beads are abundant in Yangon, my senior said that she can't find tiger eye stone chips. I guess Indonesia has more variety than Myanmar.

Here are the pics of the jewelry and way down is the tools and materials used. Enjoy!

My tiger eye ring. I haven't used it yet because it feels rather bulky.

The ones for my senior.

Tools:
Round nose plier
Flat plier
Wire cutter
Ring mandrel

Materials:
Tiger eye chips
4mm tiger eye beads
6mm tiger eye beads
Random green natural stone
0.8mm wire
Chain
Headpins
Earring hooks

Pretty in Pink

Some things that I made for a friend who adores pink stuffs and also shabby chic thingamabobs.
These are a mixture of origami, decoupage, a little beading, claying and everything else in between.

O yeah, this post will be writing heavy but I'm gonna list everything I used just in case someone would like to make something similar. If there's any question, just holler at me. :

Materials:
 Flashdisk
Shabby chic metal container
Craft foam
Origami paper
Glossy Accents
Crackle Accents
Origami paper
0.5mm wire in Gunmetal
Masking tape
Pink acrylic paint (I mixed red, white and a bit of Ranger Ink's Liquid Pearl in White Opal)
Gold acrylic pain
Memento ink in red (don't really remember what exactly)

Dreamcatcher Necklace
Round wire (I used a thin wire bangle wrapped with sticky tape to poof it up)
Pink satin ribbon
Pink acrylic paint (see above)
Water spray (for the ombre effect)
Nylon thread
6mm Rose Quartz
4mm Indian Agate
White stone chip
Metal butterfly
Salem lace
Cord closures
Eye pin
Jump ring

Binder clips
Binder clips in different sizes
Colourful masking tape (or washi tape, you use what you have)

Paper clips
Metallic paper clips
Hot glue/epoxy clay (epoxy clay is much more safer and neater to me than hot glue)
Acrylic paints
Glitter
White glue
Liquitex acrylic sealer

Tools
Round nose plier
Chain nose plier
Wire cutter
Scissor(s)
Needle
Paint brushes
Mod melt molds
Glue gun (if you're using hot glue)
Nail file/sandpaper (if you're using epoxy clay)
Silicone/non-stick mat
Rubber stamp

The Owl...

Pussy said to the Owl, “You elegant fowl! How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?”
Edward Lear - The Owl and the Pussycat

I have no idea what focal stone that is being used here. I think, in Indonesian, it’s a “kecubung karang”. Kecubung is amethyst and karang is coral. But who knows, I’m no geologist.

For the wire, I used 0.8 Artistic Wire in gunmetal, another gunmetal coloured wire size 0.4, and two other type of wires for the tail and the branch. Other stones that I used are un-named pebbled stones, tiny cat eye stones and two yellow crystals.

The idea originally came from Nancy Wickman. I like it so, so much that I have to make one of my own. Do you believe that this is my first try in making this owl? Not bad, eh. Hehe.

Also posted here. 

Materials:
cabochon
small cat eye beads
two yellow crystal beads
white pebble beads
0.8 mm Artistic Wire in gunmetal
0.4 mm wire in gunmetal
0.8 mm soft rose-gold wire
1 mm copper wire
eye pins
toggle clasp
gunmetal chain

Tools:
round nose plier
flat nose plier
wire cutter
nylon hammer