Another Jewelry Designer Who Inspires me

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  Mine was just great!!!  Spent with my family in Texas.  It was great to really get to watch niece and nephew open presents and be awed that Santa really listened and granted their long list of wants.  Then spent 2 days eating and drinking and hanging with friends.  So, needless to say i haven't made anything but that's okay I had a fab time.

So I thought i'd share another of the handmade jewelry designers who really inspires me with her awesome use of color and design.  This lady puts together some colors that I would never in a million years put together.  Her name is Lorelei Eurto and her designs are really awe inspiring to me.  She has a great eye for color but i love her designs also.

Below i'll show some of my fav designs of hers:


I love this design.  It's wintery yet summery.  Could be worn in any season.  It's just shimmery.

I love her bracelets and this one is no exception.  The way she puts elements together is an inspiration to me.  I would never put those beads together!  She's a genious!!!

Now those green beads would have made me turn my nose up--as in yuck.  But these simple earrings are really pretty paired with brass.




This necklace is gorg! Again, never would I have put those colors together. Light blue, navy, limey green.

She uses lots of artisan beads which i cannot afford at the moment.  She made several of these long necklaces with many colors that i really like a lot.  Of course i tried doing it and i just didn't like my color choices.  But this lady just has an eye for color combinations and i really admire that.

Look at this gorgeous necklace.  I see peach, green and blue and purple or pink.  Now if I did that it'd look hideous i'm sure.  This lady is another one that when i can afford it i will purchase a necklace.

Since my fav color is blue of any hue i love this necklace.  I especially love the moon on the one side.  The tree pendant just makes me smile.

I really love the muted colors in these earrings.  The different textures used calls to me.  This artist has a store on Etsy that sells waxed linen in color combinations.




Love love love the beads and the pink and yellow waxed linen just wreaks of summer and and really cottony shift dress and sandals.  These really inspire me to create something in that vein.  They make me smell the ocean and feel a breeze blowing!!!

Another long necklace with a pendant and colorful beads.  The blue just stands out for me on this one.

This is one of my most favorite necklaces of hers.  Those glowy pink beads and the pendant are so mellow to me.  It's a calming piece to me.  And then that green just sets the whole thing off.

So hop on over to her blog and check her out for yourself.  She also has an etsy store where she sells her designs.  One day I will buy one.  Hope you enjoyed seeing another of my jewelry designer inspirations!  Her blog is here.   Happy reading!  Hopefully i can settle down enough this week to start making some of my own designs.

A Wonderful Jewelry Designer i'm Obsessed With

I have talked about this lady for sometime now so I thought i'd post some of my fav designs she has made.  She inspires me with her mixes of colors and the fact that she can seemingly make something out of nothing. 

You all must visit her blog here.

The bracelet below is great. I love the elegance of the gold with simple beads and the crust on it.

These earrings are beautiful.  Love the green which she said were just cheap cabs.  That's what I mean by how she can take something a lot of us would never use and use it in such a creative and beautiful way.

These cutie pie mismatched earrings remind me of a merry go round for some strange reason.  I think it's the horse.  I think they go so well together without matching.

And these stunners are heavenly.  There's crust and gold and yellow.  The black findings enhance the colors of these earrings.

I also love her necklaces.  Love the colors in this necklace.  She uses really unique things that I would pass by in a heartbeat as junk.

Love this necklace.  There's something simple but elegant about it.  It's bright yet dark.

So check out her blog.  She is a generous artist who shares some of her techniques and even where she finds some of her oddities.  She also sells tutorials which I bought one for making bracelet stacks.  I made some of the bracelets putting my own spin on them and they were snapped up in a hurry.  For whatever reason i haven't made anymore but i just may have to make some more.  They are fun to make because you can do so many creative things with them.

Lest you think I am plugging her stuff i am but i also think you can gain valuable insight from reading her blog.  TTFN

Some Jewelry Inspirations From Pinterest

So i'm looking at my jewelry inspirations board on Pinterest and thought i'd share some things i've found that really inspire me.  Not only to inspire my jewelry making but they are some items I find simply stunning.  Check them out!



I love these earrings.  They are colorful without being too bright.

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I have a bunch of raw crystals.  I love long chains with chunky elements hanging from them.  This is def an inspiration piece for me.  I'll be sure and show the piece I make using this piece as inspiration.

This chunky monster is beautiful to me.  I have a lot of large beads bought by accident that I never use because people I know want smaller stuff.

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I love leather used in jewelry.  I've only made a couple of items and people snapped them up.  I have a small stash of leather in diff colors that I for some reason horde.

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The colors used here remind me of the ocean.  It gives me an idea for some stones that I have.  Def using these as inspiration.  That sterling is gorg.

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Am obsessed right now with old rusty stuff especially keys and locks.  They are extremely popular.  I made some and trimmed them with rhinestones.  But they were brass and don't look old.  So i'm looking for more to darken and make crusty as  Fanci of fancifuldevices.blogspot.com says.  Ya'll should check out her blog.  This girl creates some of the most creative designs and she makes everything look crusty and old.  I'm obsessed with her!!

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Rhinestones.  Loving them. Oh to find a haul of vintage rhinestones pieces that I could afford.  I look for them all the time!!  I have a few but they are not vintage so they would need to be aged.

Don't you just love the simplicity of this necklace?  I do.  I would wear this with all sorts of colors.

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These colors remind me of a sunset.  Talk about inspiring!

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Rhinestones and an aspirin tin top.  Genious!!

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I have a key this big and i'm now gonna use it! This necklace is simple but eye catching.  Lets see what I can do with it using this as inspiration.

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I'm not usually into red but the way it was used here just makes it pop.  Those turquoise stones are gorg.



That's all i'll bore you with now.  But what type of jewelry inspires you??