Gemstone earrings and necklace sets

What is your favorite gemstones.  I personally love them all !  I just recently purchased a HUGE order of chalcedony, quartz, pearls, peridot, amethyst, garnet, carnelian, jade and many other stones.  While waiting for them to arrive I got thinking of unique wedding jewelry that I could incorperate the gemstones into.

I have a large binder full of amazing gemstone jewelry designs I want to turn these stones into, so that should be a lot of fun !  Half of the gemstones are destined for sale on Etsy.  So stay tuned.

Favorite piece of jewelry

Everyone has one...their favorite piece of jewelry.  Besides my wedding ring, mine are a pair of diamond stud earrings my husband gave me for Christmas two years ago and my Pandora bracelet and charms.  I also have a lariat necklace that I really love a lot too.

Growing up my Mom always wore the same gold filigree earrings and I just adored them.  I wanted a pair for myself so bad.  She had lots of really neat and unusual jewelry.  I loved rummaging thru her jewelry box and fondling her pearl necklace.  The pearls felt so good against my skin.  To this day I love pearls !  I exclusively use Swarovski pearls in my jewelry designs because of their similar characteristics to real pearls.  The same weight, feel and look for a fraction of the price.

Earrings, Necklaces and Bracelets oh my !  Thats what I am up to this weekend.  I have a huge wedding party jewelry order to complete this weekend and if I have time, I plan on trying to fit in some yard work.  I have 30 flowers, shrubs and decorative grasses that need planting and a lot of weeds that need to be picked. The yard is finally taking shape.

Pantone fall colors

While designing crystal earrings tonight I decided to check out Pantones site. Pantone is where I go to preview the next seasons "HOT" colors.  Lets just say their names are very unusual. How will the Pantone fall colors translate into Wedding colors ?  Not quite sure but there are some very odd colors for fall. Endive, golden glow, living coral, lipstick red, purple orchid, chocolate truffle, woodbine, oyster gray and rose dust. I suppose I should order some swarovski in these colors....just in case :)

Here is the link in case your interested in seeing what we will be wearing for fall / winter 2010

http://www.pantone.com/downloads/articles/pdfs/PANTONE_Fashion_Color_Report_Fall_2010.pdf

Welcome

HourGlass Studio's specialty is custom jewelry. Wedding jewelry for the bride, bridesmaids and other special events and occassions. My name is Laurie and I am the designer behind HourGlass Studio. Each piece is created in my jewelry studio and given the utmost attention to detail, thus ensuring quality pieces that any woman will be proud to wear again and again.

Please visit HourGlass Studio on ETSY to view my entire collection.

http://www.hourglassstudio.etsy.com/