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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

A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces tilted to each other at an angle. Objects at one end of the mirrors are seen as a regular symmetrical patterns when viewed from the other end due to repeated reflection.

Our Kaleidoscope is not a working kaleidoscope but the reflections of the beautiful sparkling dome crystal from Swarovski reflects light symmetrically just like a kaleidoscope.

A dome crystal is placed at each end of the pendant connected to each other with a beautifully embellished beadwork tube. The tube further sparkles with twinkling little Czech fire polished beads further reflecting light to enhance the sparkle of the crystal.

The pendant is suspended from a simple unadorned herringbone rope to allow the beauty of the pendant take center stage.

Amoeba comes from the Greek word amoibe, means change. It’s a tiny, one-celled organism that moves by changing its shape.

Just like these one-celled organism, the Ripple beads shimmer and shine and appear to change its shape and color all on its own.

Woven on a simple base, the Ripple “amoeba” are embellished with glittering Swarovski lachrosen for that added shimmer. The clasps is hidden and making the cuff appear endless, with no beginning or end. 

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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One of my favourite design houses is the House of Chanel started by Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, more well known as Coco Chanel. She is often credited with liberating women from the constraints of the "corseted silhouette" and popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. She is well known for the little black dress, tweed suits, distinctive costume jewellery and the 2.55 bag. Her use of beautiful tweed and always the pearls makes her fashion exudes style, sophistication, class and timelessness.

The Gabrielle Cuff is my homage to Coco Chanel who is very often my personal muse when it comes to beading. Her love of pearls is evident in a bold cuff that is studded with luscious pearls in a grid pattern. The grid is further embellished to resemble the look and texture of the tweed she so loves. Gabrielle may be worn 2 ways – one with a clasp and for those of you who would like to touch of whimsy - a ribbon can be used as closure.

Note :
Ribbon Not Included
Additional clasp available from here 

Cubic right angle weave geometric pendants are strung on an embellished chain.

Beautiful sparkling backlit tear drops are interspersed between bezelled chatons around the chain.

Tide pools, or rock pools, are rocky pools on the sea shore which are filled with seawater. Many of these pools exist as separate pools only at low tide.

The herringbone bezelled crystal rivolis sparkle like pools of light - just like an ocean tide pool. Luckily for us though, our Tide Pools do not disappear when the tide comes in. They continue to reflect light and glimmer on our wrist.

Maria Theresa was an Austrian archduchess, the only female ruler of the Hapsburg dominions and also the last of the House of Hapsburg. Sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress. She was also the mother of the infamous Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI of France.

Maria Theresa promulgated financial and educational reforms, promoted commerce and the development of agriculture, and reorganised Austria's ramshackle military, all of which strengthened Austria's international standing. A ruler very much ahead of her time.

The Maria Theresa Collar is in honour of this modern woman who shattered glass ceilings way before the notion of glass ceilings. Shaped prismatic right angle weave embrace a glowing Swarovski crystal pearl to form sweet components. They are placed on a fun necklace of embellished swirling balls made from Czech crescent beads. Learn to make swirling balls that swirl in opposition directions for perfect symmetry. An elegant collar fit for a Holy Roman Empress.

A lanyard is a cord or strap worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist to carry such items as keys or identification cards.

The Lanyard is a flat spiral strap that is supple and lush flat. Hundreds of glittering firepolished beads form the spine of the strap. A huge sparkly lobster claw at the end of the Lanyard is used to hang a twinkling jewel encrusted Swarovski crystal pendant. The pendant is removable and the Lanyard may be used to hang various items from keys to name tags and mobile phones.

The Horned Necklace is a 3-dimensional self-supporting pendant suspended from herringbone rope sections.

Beautiful backlit glass cabochons are bezelled with tiny seed beads. Gradual increases in bead count create “horns” that rise from the mid-section of the pendant. It is then topped by another bezelled cabochon to make it fully reversible.

Sections of herringbone rope are linked with double sided connectors that twinkle in the light to form a pliable, elegant rope.

A tassel is a finishing feature in fabric and clothing decoration.
It is a universal ornament that is seen in varying versions in many cultures around the globe.

It is made by binding or otherwise gathered threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the tassel is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end. As decorative elements one often finds them attached, usually along the bottom hem, to garments, curtains, shoes, ceremonial robes and even as pasties covering the nipples of burlesque performers!

Using the brand new Hubble stitch, the Tassel Lariat hangs from a pliant rope of tubular Hubble stitch. Multi-layered Hubble stitched waves form the decorative body of the tassel. To finish, a Hubble woven fringe hangs in lush skirt below the body of the tassel.

Beautiful sparking Swarovski pear shaped crystals are bezelled with tiny seed beads. Delicious tiny fire polished beads are studded along the side of the bezels to give it rich and luxurious look. A briolette hangs from each of the pendants.

The Prismatic Right Angle Weave rope is embellished with “stopper” sections to keep the pendants in place. A luxurious and flexible rope that will hang beautifully from your neck.