Weekly Spotlight: "Enchanted"

From Chan: "I've had this cab for a hot minute because I find it hard to come by enhydros (at least, ones that I like enough to snag). That said, I didn't remember all the details about this one other than it had this killer enhydro dead center in the front. I sat down with it and was originally thinking I was going to create an "Escape" collection design for it but I needed the top to be something a little more special. So I sat and played quite a bit and ended up coming up with this absolutely killer design! I struggled with what stone to pair with it for a full day, even taking to asking in my IG stories for input. Many suggestions were given and one person suggested even leaving it as is. I adjusted the design a little bit and BOOM! There she was! I was absolutely enchanted by this design. (No really, some kind of fancy music was even playing through my head when I sat back and looked at this as a whole!). During the live, someone pointed out that there was another bubble in the cab. We flipped it around and lo and behold, it was a second enhydro! I'm so excited for this to have found a home, and know, too, that it will forever be engrained in my memory."

The Artist Behind the Designs

Greetings! Most of you know me as "Chan." A small glimpse into myself: I've loved jewelry and making jewelry ever since I was a young girl. Wire wrapping has become especially enjoyable to me and my hope is to create pieces that you will love enough to take home and add to your collection.

Thank you so much for supporting me and my family by continuing to buy, browse, and share the jewelry I create!

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10k solid gold pearl necklace. The pearls and nearly perfect symmetrical ovals, with no odd knots bulging from the sides. This one is sold, but I can make more. Send me a dm, I have several different pearl colors available as well, including black, purple, pink, and even green. An 18" runs around $300. You can request ANY length (even 1/2" and 1/4" lengths), and the price will vary with it.These are handmade to order. #originaldesignbychan #crystals #crystalcollector #gridding #saturdaynight
Fail!!!
Live tonight
Not the greatest photo mostly because it doesn't show the color as well as I was hoping, but I sure love these earrings!

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Made these for a custom and I love how they turned out.
This is the sterling silver cleaner. 

If you choose to use this solution, please take a moment to read the full description here.

It does indicate to not use gemstones in it so do so at your discretion. The pendant in this is more of a throwaway item that wasn't going to break my heart if it got ruined. (No pun intended). 

The solution removed the tarnish off of all of my jewelry pieces very well. They look the same way they did when I first made them, including on the artisan chains. 

I DO NOT recommend trying this solution on porous gemstones such as pearl, turquoise, opal, etc. (Yes the pendant in the video has an opal). I say this primarily because of the following ingredients: Thiourea, Cleaning Agents, Sulfuric Acid, Acetophenone. While I do not know the specific effects of each, I cannot conclude that they would be safe for such stones. 

I did use the "fine jewelry" product on an Oregon sunstone pendant in gold filled metal as well as on my gold filled artisan chain and the results were satisfactory. I additionally used it on my wedding ring. 

****The results of using Fine Jewelry Cleaner (Connoisseurs) on my WEDDING RING showed discoloration on the soldered joints of the basket holding my main stone****. I reserve my suspensions on why that happened, but proceed with caution if you plan to clean major items like that. I would recommend a professional cleaning over the solution for such items (wedding bands, special jewelry, etc). 

Do NOT use Connoisseurs Silver Jewelry Cleaner on rhodium plated sterling silver or silver plated jewelry. 

Do not leave your sterling silver jewelry in the solution for more than 10 seconds & be sure to clean only one item at a time (including earring sets).

I did use it on several of my personal, unplated, sterling silver items and it worked fine, but time will tell.

*I DO NOT KNOW THE LONG TERM EFFECTS OF THIS SOLUTION.*
Garnet and spinel
Live this evening
Birthstone live in the works...
Thank you so much for an awesome night! If anyone wants to claim something, comment the code or send me a dm. 💜
St. Patrick's Day theme! Live tonight around 7pm MST
Pricing things always makes me incredibly nervous. There's a lot of people out there that make negative comments about higher priced items. There's a lot of people that think that wire wrapping should be cheap because of their own opinions. The reality is that why are wrapping takes a lot of time and a lot of planning and mistakes that you have to correct and or even start over. I have worked so hard to get where I am and I've got a long ways to go for improvements and so forth. I've always felt like charging a fair price to me is going to upset somebody but I have to remember that my price is high because my time is valuable, my products are good, the quality is great and undervaluing myself does no justice to the progress I've made. I think we should all remember that and I've said it before but we don't get paid less at 9:00 to 5:00 jobs for getting better. We get paid more because we get better and because of our time and tenure. So with that in mind I'm no longer going to apologize because I wouldn't apologize to my boss for getting a raise and I wouldn't apologize to the company for doing well and earning that raise. Wouldn't you agree?
They turned out pretty well I think. I definitely need a pair. Anyone else? #originaldesignbychan #tourmaline #moonstone #crystalcollector #jewelrysale #shopsmall
Happy mail today.
Don't mind my fingers. I was digging in the garden 🤦