Kits

A locket is a pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a special photograph, a precious lock of hair or any other small keepsakes. Lockets are usually given to loved ones on holidays such as Valentine's Day and occasions such as christenings, weddings. And during the Victorian Age, at funerals.

Wear it next to your heart. Keep your secret close. The locket lid is a glittering rhinestone bezelled in cubic right angle weave. The locket is hung from a sinuous rope decorated with 2 glittering bezelled chatons. It opens to reveal your Secret Within.

Glass Rhinestones available from here

Wooden Disks available from here

The Belle Époque era is a period in French history between 1890 to 1915 charaterised by optimism, regional peace, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific, and cultural innovations. In particular, it was a time of increasing wealth and flourishing arts, literature, music and theatre. In contrast to the horrors of recent wars, it is often considered the golden age and a time when joie de vivre was experienced to its fullest.

Belle Époque jewelry encompassed three jewelry design periods: Art Nouveau, the Arts and Crafts movement and Edwardian. Precious metals like gold and platinum, thin fluid lacy lines, cloisonné enameling and gemstones feature prominently in Belle Époque jewelry. In particular pearls, especially cultured pearls, gained massive popularity.

La Belle Époque features a beautiful navette rhinestone encased in cubic right angle weave bezel. Cubic right angle weave fluid lines embrace luxurious crystal pearls. The pendant is suspended from a delicate pearl embellished cubic right angle weave collar.

Lakshmi is one of the most popular goddesses of Hindu Mythology. She is known as the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Lakshmi typically wears a red dress embroidered with golden threads, symbolizing fortune and wealth.

Lakshmi is resplendent from its glittering crystal centrepiece to its decorative tassel. Worked in Cubic Right Angle and Double Cubic Right Angle Weave, the necklace is lush and luxurious. A beautiful sparkly centre piece is hung from a slinky rope with echoes of the decorative DCRAW disks embellishments.

As seen in Bead Art & Embroidery Japan October 2020

Glittering and sparkling, a circle of 8 hearts radiate from the center of the pendant giving this piece its name.

The lacy ring of hearts lie on top of an equally sparkling crystal. Embracing this ring of hearts is a beautifully woven cubic right angle weave bezel. To ensure there is an even more sparkle the side of the bezel revels a rings of twinkling Czech firepolisedh beads.

The rope is cubic right angle weave with double cubic right angle weave accents woven with delicious tiny firepolished beads.

Definitely a statement piece for the bling aficionado.

Additional glass rhinestones are available here

La Dolce Vita or the good life, is a celebration of how wonderful beads are during these unprecedented times of global pandemic. The ability to indulge in my passion for beading is so comforting to me, as it must be for a lot of you.

La Dolce Vita uses Cubic Right Angle weave to form graceful arcs which embrace a beautiful Swarovski pearl. These arcs form a gentle curve to sit at the base of your neck. And suspended in the center is a magnificent crystal that glitters and shines brightly.

A keepsake is a small item kept in memory of the person who gave it or originally owned it. We treasure them as it brings back great memories we had with that person. What is more appropriate than to keep it in something as beautiful as the keepsake itself.

The Keepsake Vessel is an 8 sided self-supporting bead woven container worked exclusive in peyote. The vessel is embellished with surface netting as well as an embedded crystal cup chain. The vessel stand is self-supporting “wings” embellished not only to look beautiful but also to give structure and support. The lid is topped with a beautiful Swarovski pearl.

In all a fitting vessel for your precious keepsake and the beautiful memories it brings.

Cubic Right Angle Weave squares in various sizes are connected to each other to form the pendant. Squares of various height embrace a sparkling crystal at its center to give sophistication to the necklace. A slinky detachable strap is knotted around the distinctive bail.

Cuff Available here

Additional Chaton Montees Available here 

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Cubic Right Angle Weave squares in 2 sizes are connected to each other to form the cuff. Squares of various height embrace a sparkling crystal at its center to give sophistication to the cuff.

Necklace Available here

Additional Chaton Montees Avaiable here 

Sweet charming and just enchanting.

Incanto is a stylized flower woven completely out of Cubic Right Angle weave.

Individual petals are woven then assembled together and embellished with a sparkly crystal to form an enchanting flower. More petals embellished with crystal chatons form part of the centrepiece of the necklace. A unique double toggle is the closure for the necklace allowing the closure to be made from either the right or the left.

One of the loveliest Chinese festivals in Singapore is the Mid-Autumn Festival, falling on the 15^th day of the eighth lunar month.

Marking the end of the autumn harvest, the Mid-Autumn Festival is traditionally a time to give thanks to the gods. The moon is at its brightest at this time of year which is why lunar legends have always been attached to the celebration.

One of the most notable legend is the story of Chang Er, the wife of a merciless king. To save her people from his tyrannical rule, she downed the elixir of immortality that he had intended to drink. As the story goes, she ascended to the moon upon her brave act, and has been worshipped by the Chinese as the Moon Goddess ever since.

When dusk falls, celebrations go into full swing. Lanterns decorate the streets and gardens. Children come out with their lanterns vying each other who has the best lantern. Moon-viewing parties are popular as well. Family and friends sit in gardens lit by the soft glow of paper lanterns, sip tea and nibble on mooncakes.

Chinese lanterns are traditionally made of paper and it symbolizes the wish for a bright future.

Our lantern is not made of paper but of thousands of little seed beads, twinkling in the moonlight. A self-supporting central column supports “wings” that extrude from it. Between the wings are twinkling crystals adding to the glittering moonlight. Although inspired by the Chinese beautiful lanterns, The Lantern is designed as a drapery tassel (tie back) or a Christmas tree ornament.

For more information about this lovely celebration, please visit www.visitsingapore.com/festivals-events-singapore/cultural-festivals/mid-autumn-festival

Additional tassels available here

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Born Arjumand Banu Begum, Mumtaz Mahal was the Empress consort of the Mughal Empire’s emperor, Shah Jahan. Poets extolled her beauty, gracefulness and compassion. The emperor even conferred upon her the title of Mumtaz Mahal meaning Exalted One of the Palace. Mumtaz Mahal had a very deep and loving marriage with Shah Jahan and travelled with him throughout the Empire.

She died giving birth to the couple’s 14^th child. In the immediate aftermath of his bereavement, the emperor was inconsolable, and he went into secluded mourning for a year. When he appeared again, his hair had turned white, his back was bent, and his face worn. He began planning the design and construction of a suitable mausoleum and funerary garden in Agra for his wife. A task that would take more than 22 years to complete and Taj Mahal, a monument to love was the result.

Mumtaz Mahal takes its inspiration from the Empress consort herself. An elaborate bezelled crystal pendant is hung from symmetrical spiralling ropes. More ropes hang below the pendant giving the impression of endless spiralling loops.

Sabine is a series of Double Cubic Right Angle Weave (DCRAW) and Cubic Right Angle Weave (CRAW) units to form a firm self-supporting structure. It can be either a circular or tear drop pendant. The bail is a right angle weave (RAW) strip connected to DCRAW units. A series of CRAW units interspersed with DCRAW units for a pliable, textural rope. Sabine can be worn long or short. A hidden magnetic clasp is used to close the necklace when worn short.

Instructions for both round and tear drop pendant as well as the hidden clasp closure are included. 

A big thank you to Sabine Lippert of trytobead for her Double Cubic Right Angle Weave stitch.