Our Piece Featured In a Blog!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27111950

Our piece "Red, White, and Blue Chandelier Earrings" is featured in a great blog. Check it out:

http://www.examiner.com/x-3805-Baltimore-Style-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Do-July-4th-in-style

The post is "Ten Must Haves For July Fourth" so take a look at the other Etsy sellers who were mentioned, too :)

Fourth of July Inspirations

Angie and I created a number of Fourth of July inspired pieces. The first is a patriot pendant made from a vintage key. We bought this key, along with a tiny box of other old keys, at a yard sale a couple months ago. Going to college in an affulant town has some perks: the yard sales have some pretty nice stuff! This includes some very nice old jewelry (or keys), which we LOVE remaking into new pieces.

The second piece, which we casually refer to as our "Whitney" style earrings (inspired by a friend with the same name), is "officially" titled "Independence Dangle Earrings." We used, once again, a vintage element (the sparkling blue center bead), this time taken from an old box of jewelry given to us by our Nanna. The box contained gorgeous, but broken, vintage jewelry. So far the bits and pieces of old jewelry have gone a long way in defining our newest creations.

The third piece is a design we call "Chandelier." We use quite a few Czech glass beads for these earrings. Using Czech glass is a good, less expensive althernative to Swarovski crystal. Czech glass has a lot of sparkle and class, just like Swarovski, but with a smaller price tag.

Happy Fourth!

Sarah

As the Fourth of July Approaches...

Today Sarah and I created a few pieces for the coming holiday! I am very happy with the results. I created a key necklace pendant with Czech glass beads and a red spiral. Sarah made a pair of "chandalier" earrings with red, white, and blue Czech glass beads. These pieces and others will be posted soon (hopefully tomorrow) on our esty.com page!
Angie

P.S. I am currently listening to the soundtrack for Pride and Prejudice (which I just saw for, I think, the 5th time). It puts me in such a romantic mood. Possibly some more Pride and Prejudice pieces will come from this... :)