Twisted Wire Hooks!

I have been wanting to make these for a long time now. Procrastination cost me probably about a year. Part of it insecurity at my ability to actually pull it off and part of it never seeming to be the right time...

 I made so much twisted wire, I should be able to make a couple hundred of these easy! So, since they turned out even better than I had hoped, I am sharing them with you!

 I have listed these in my Supply Shop on Etsy in two different ways. You can find the Individual Listing and you can find the Three Pack Listing. By buying the three pack you do save some money, but if you want to test run them first, try the single one.

 They are made of 16 gauge solid copper. Twisted, shaped, hammered, filed, oxydized and polished. They are work hardened and quite stiff. They are chunky and solid!

 They vary slightly in size and shape, but that's the beauty of handmade! I can not promise which piece you will get, I can only say they are all good quality and durable!

I sincerely hope you like these. I will be adding other things to my shop soon, more clasps, links and headpins. If you have requests I can certainly try to fulfill them!

Marie

p.s. I am also finishing some raven pendants this week, should be in the shop by the weekend!

 

Beads of Clay Blog: Beads of Clay Spotlight Designer of the Week!

 Come see my interview with Beads of Clay!! Really excited to be the featured designer!!

Beads of Clay Blog: Beads of Clay Spotlight Designer of the Week!: Introducing............................ Marie-Noel Voyer-Cramp of  Skye Jewels Everyone say Hello to Marie! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

Smile!!

 Just a few favorites to make you smile...
I am taking a break for a few days as I am about to have my 4th chemo treatment, the one that marks the halfway point. I am happy to report that the tumor is shrinking! All the pain and suffering has not been in vain! This makes me incredibly happy and grateful!

 So in celebration of happiness, I post some of my newer jewelry. Pieces that I love that make me happy! Pieces that make me smile! Pieces that I hope you will love enough to go out and buy if they are still in my shop! lol After all, that is why we do this, us creators of jewelry! We create to sell, to have the money to buy more beads to keep on creating! The circle of beading shall we call it?

 All these have Art beads. Beads created with love by someone passionate about their craft. As I am about mine!

 I don't have the energy today to give you all the details of the wonderful artists who made the beads, but most of them are listed in the listings in my Etsy shop, as tag words.

 I hope to return to creating a about a week or so, though it may take a bit longer. I hope to see some orders coming in, it certainly has a healing effect! I am just unsure when I will be able to ship.

 I will do my best not to make you wait too long if you do make a purchase. I may hire my Husband James temporarily if the need is there!  I do have many pendants to list, but I have not taken pics yet. I really need to do that soon!

I love giving you a lot to look at! I know it's always my favorite thing when I am on a blog. I love to look at all the pictures and seeing what everyone has been up to.

 I included a few pieces that have already sold. I do however promise that there are still many lovely pieces in my Etsy shop for you to choose from!

Thanks for all the support and friendship and especially prayers!

Marie

New Ephemera to Feast the eye on!!

I took way too long to finish these, but finally it's all done! I have over 300 new pieces to show you and I am really excited about it!

 I am most excited about these new Live Love Laugh tiles. These are EXCLUSIVE to Skye Jewels! Images made just for me, that no one else can purchase. This makes these a little more original and harder to come by, which makes your designs more original since I never mass produce anything!

 That makes 42 images no one else will be selling! I am very proud of these and really hope you will support me in buying these originals for your jewelry designs!

I know many, many of you requested Poppies! I managed to list just a few... I have a couple left to photograph and list, but there are not many left... already. I hope you enjoy them, I will make more soon!

I restocked the butterflies and dragonflies section. They are one of the top sellers for my shop. As always, I will keep making more, but grab them while they are there! I can't promise when the next batch will be ready...

Now for my exclusive, hand tinted keys. The first batch sold pretty fast, so I made more and those sold almost as fast. These are the third batch and I can't wait to see how fast they will go! I have 13 committed to a shop in Rocky Mountain House, AB but the rest will be yours for the taking! Each one is unique, I hand tint them with alcohol inks and seal them. 

For now they come in 1X2 and 1X3. I have had a request for smaller ones, so I am considering a smaller set, we will see. Exclusive sheets are quite pricy. Since the artist is not able to sell them to anyone else, I pay full price for the design. This is good for you, my customers because you know you get a unique product, but it makes my pendants more costly to make. I hope to keep my prices on these the same as the other pendants, but may not be able to. It depends on how well they sell! So it's up to all of you to help me keep my prices low, by buying Lots of Exclusive pendants!!

Last but not least I wanted to share with you one of my favorite necklaces I have ever made, featured in the August issue of Bead Trends Magazine!! "Vintage Carni" It was a fun piece to make, filled with all sorts of wonderful elements!! It includes one of my handmade pendants, some of my handmade lampwork beads in light ivory, vintage buttons and our all time favorite brass, Vintaj!!

This awesome pendant although made by someone else was the inspiration for my request from Ella Bouchard of Calico Collage, to make this amazing sheet!! You will be seeing pendants from this sheet very soon, I just finished them today in 1.5 inch!!

Thanks so much for stopping by

Marie

 

Calico Collage - High Quality Digital Collage Sheets: Published!

 It is a real pleasure to be able to share this link with you. Calico Collage is my main supplier of digital images and Ella has become a close personal friend. We have worked together on many of her new collage sheets to help fulfill both our customers needs, which has been a real treat! Ella is an amazing digital Artist and a real pleasure to work with! Having a piece published with one of her digital images was a very proud moment for both of us! I hope you will take a moment to visit her blog, leave a comment or two and even follow her! She comes up with great tutorials you do not want to miss!

Ella is also having a sale in her ETSY SHOP right now. Visit her FACEBOOK page to get your discount code!!

Calico Collage - High Quality Digital Collage Sheets: Published!: I was so happy to find out that some of my buyers have been submitting their own creations that include Calico Collage's design in them.  I ...

Marie

Featured Inspiration!!

Today I simply wanted to share a few inspirational creations made with my charms and lampwork glass beads. They are made by several artists I consider my friends and I hope to share many more in the years to come...

 A necklace by Heather Powers of Humblebeads and Humblebeads Jewelry. A wonderful generous soul who has been a huge support to me these last few years. Thank you for being my friend.

Earrings by Shannon Chomanczuk of For My Sweet Daughter. A girl with strong principles and a big heart. Thanks for standing up for what's right!

A Necklace by Erin Prais-Hintz of Tesori Trovati. A constant inspiration and support with never a bad thing to say about anyone! Bless your heart my sweet friend!

A necklace by Cherrie Fick of En La Lumiere. A longtime friend and sweet soul! I Cherish our friendship.

A bracelet by Barbara Betchel of Second Surf. A wonderful friend with amazing talent, I love chatting with you.

A bracelet by Donna Martin Bradley of Stranded Beads. A kind and sweet soul whom I have come to depend on in times of hardship. I hope I can do the same and more for you if there ever comes a time of need in your life.

A necklace by Megon Workman of Broken Wings. A new friend that I have found to be a Kindred Spirit. Thank you for Finding me!

A necklace by Kristy Abner of Kristy's Kreations. An amazing talent full of the most clever ideas and sweetest soul a person could imagine! Thanks for your heart.

A necklace by Jess Italia Lincoln of Vintaj. Creative genius at it's best! Thanks for all your support and your friendship.

 Earrings by Cindy Cima Edwards of Zimaj. A sweet and friendly soul. Thanks for being my Cover girl! {Stringing Magazine} 


I could go on and on... So send me your pictures and I would love to add you to the list! Don't feel left out if you are not up, I just might not have any good pictures ;)


Thanks for visiting!!


Marie
 

A Few New Treasures!

A few new things you will find in my shop that I hope you will enjoy! Not too much to say these days, tired and doing my best to live life to it's fullest! Recovering from Chemo and ready for the next round on Friday! So please enjoy the photos and feel free to visit my shop!!

 

Pendant by Martha Eason of Menagerie Studio!!

Beautiful blues wrapped in solid copper with Spirited Earth beads!

 Stunning Butterfly Pendant with Solid Copper chain!

 Vintage Key pendant with Lampwork by SueBeads! 

 Stunning green embossed metal earrings with more Sue Beads!

 French Eiffel Tower Necklace with large crystal!!

 Mixed Metal Bird earrings! Super fun! 

There is much more being listed, so please go have a look!

Feel free to leave me a comment or two, I love to read them!

Marie

Is anyone still out there?

It has certainly been a struggle to be normal lately. I am posting more for the sake of posting, and to let all of you know that I am still here than to show anything really new that I have created!

 Many of you now know of my health struggles. They have hit a peak that I was not expecting and now I have to take a step back and re-evaluate my existence!  I am fighting because I am never one to give up easily. I just can't see this being the end of anything for me! I just might be away more than on and I may be missing from your favorite magazines for awhile until I am better. I don't want to be gone completely, but I have to take care of myself or there will be no more me.

 I need to continue creating, I find it to be very therapeutic, so it would be silly ti give it up altogether. I just want to create from my heart. So I will no longer be taking special requests or custom orders, since these cause me stress, and I have to avoid that as much as possible. That does not mean I won't consider making something like what you might be looking for, but I just won't make any promises.

 In the meantime, you can go shopping and purchase what I have in my shop. I have lots of beautiful things in there just waiting for a new forever home. I will keep adding things to my shop for as long as I can and will only close temporarily when my health dictates that I must. Help me fight this fight! Stay positive! I will make it through! As a good friend of mine once said, "Don't say you 'think' you will make it, say you 'will' make it and you will"

I love you all and I am blessed to have you in my life!

Marie
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