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Pure White Trash Pure-ity Necklace by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry
Sunday post. Same old post about what I’ve been doing, with some related photos of my jewelry. Boring. Boring for me to write. Boring for you to read. Blogs must be evolving. Thusly, there cometh evolvement. I’ve seen how popular my Behind the Twinkle posts have been and I’m listening to the people .
Pure Sin Pure-ity Necklace by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry
I want to say Likers but that’s too Facebookian for me. And you must have guessed by now I’m not the biggest FB fan in the land. So, I’m not going to copy my Behind the Twinkle posts, but I will do the incredible.
I’m going to use my blog to bring together all my social media photos and ideas for a particular Glamour Twinkle piece, showcasing them all here. That way, you lucky blog readers will get the ultimate sneaky peek into the latest Glamour Twinkle. And here’s to our new piece:
Pure-ity Necklace – Pure Sin & Pure White Trash
Let me lay the ground work. Obsessed with Craftrunner, I’d bought a bunch of charms, pistols with cute stars stamped on them in gold and silver (plated); skull and cross-bones in silver and gold (plated); puffy hearts; stamped stars; bezels, cabochons; and on and on and on.
And then I get jewelers block. It’s like writers block only with jewelry.
I had a box full of fantastic new charms and I could NOT think of a single thing to make with them. Instead of making a bunch of horrible pieces that I would only end up pulling apart I waiting until the inspiration hit me.
It did not. So I go to Etsy. And I do a search on “guns” and inspiration strikes. I spend a good evening looking through everything tagged “guns”. It was a good lesson on tagging and gun related jewelry. To my delight, no one had made anything that looked remotely like my pieces. I was happy. And I still am. I had created some pretty cool looking necklaces.
Pure White Trash Pure-ity Necklace by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry – media ready option… a work in progress.
So I unveil one on instagram (@glamourtwinkles) and it gets a couple of likes. Always a positive sign. And I also promise to load it onto Etsy. Which I’ve also done. See?
So, all in all, I’ve been a productive Twinkle. Of course I’ve done more than just make two necklaces. I’ve been shooting and editing and tweeting and instagraming and everything. But you’ll need to tune in next week to see what else I’ve been doing with my Sunday.
Byesies!
New Orleans. It’s a million miles away from me, down here in the land down under the land down under. But I have always wanted to visit Norleans. Ever since I started reading Anne Rice books. I was a little obsessed by The Vampire Chronicles (meh, to Twilight), but that was before I read about the Mayfair Witches in The Witching Hour.
White Skull Gold Cross Black Key Voodoo Earrings by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry, available on Etsy
I so badly wanted to visit New Orleans and see the mardi gras. I would be in glittery heaven with all those fabulously gaudy beads strewn all over the streets (and around naughty girls necks, I know what those necklaces mean…). But I digress. This post is another mix and match opportunity.
Voodoo is somewhat synonymous with New Orleans in my mind. Voodoo is fascinating as well as being somewhat scary and a recognised religion. I like it for the jewelry connotations. To me, Voodoo can be encapsulated in earrings. It gives me a chance to goth up some little skulls I purchased a while ago. I really should get some more because they’ve proven to be a popular item in my little social media circle. I can’t say that I’ve sold any of my Voodoo-esgue earrings but they are well liked.
Black Noir Chunky Charm Bracelet by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry, available from Etsy
Now, what would sit better with said Voodoo inspired earrings that a jet black chunky charm bracelet. Another favorite item in my jewelry stable, this black beauty is a noir masterpiece. An adjustable sturdy chain festooned with big, black bold glass beads.
I think these two pieces paint a nice dark picture, don’t you?
That is how I would describe my busy-ness this weekend.
I have spent most of this weekend putting together and shooting my exciting new range of Pure-ity Rings. Check out these:
Pure Envy Pure-ity Ring by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry
After taking my sister’s advice and squashing up the spacing between the words I’m rather happy with how well these rings have turned out.
Pure Jerk Pure-ity Ring by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry
I had a stroke of genius the other day. At the last-minute I decided to put a different coloured ring around the “border”, for want of a better word, the same size as the cabochon.
Pure Shit Pure-ity Ring by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry
I’ve also been trying to get into the habit of almost daily Etsy listing renewals as well as keeping up with my Twitter. My day job has been pretty full on this week so I really had to force myself to not neglect Glamour Twinkles during the week.
This weekend I’ve made a couple of new necklaces, Etsy bound, natch. I’ve used a somewhat simple necklace design that allows me to use my favorite skull and crossbones charms as well as the little guns I ordered a while back.
Enjoy your sneaky preview of Glamour Twinkles Jewelry Pure-ity Rings, they’ll all be available in my Etsy shop very soon.
The colour of love, rage, danger – red speaks to us all over the place. We see red stop lights, red stop signs, we want red hair and those prone to anger see red everywhere.
Instead of seeing red, Glamour Twinkles Jewelry will have you wearing red.
Red Gothic Pagoda Earrings by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry, available from Etsy
Don’t get mad, get glamoured. Imagine the radical redness of this statement Red Adjustable Beaded Bauble Ring, matched perfectly with the Red Rosebud Gothic Pagoda Earrings.
Amaze!!
In my ever changing quest for internet domination of Glamour Twinkles Jewelry I am unveiling a new slant to Behind The Twinkle posts we all love so.
After reading the Etsy blog the other day (yesterday, actually) I learned about a brilliantly simple way to keep potential customers looking through my shop. I simply add a link to another item in my store. Now, you can get a visual idea of how I would put “a look” together.
Well, you can’t really. Because when you click on one item, read the oh so funny description (that does have important sizing information) you will see that some items, have a link to another item in my shop. But alas, you can only see one item at a time. Wait a second, why not visit this here blog to see two items pictured together. Why, what an awesome idea, Miss Twinkle. Thusly I am unveiling Behind the Twinkle Miss Match (we’re still working on the official title for this incarnation of “B-the-T”)
Light Blue Gothic Pagoda Earrings by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry available on Etsy
Blue Leaf Beaded Bauble Ring by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry available from Etsy
So you need something glam to wear to your latest movie premier or “The Red carpet” as they say in”the biz”. Look no further than these eye-catching Light Blue Lampwork Gothic Pagoda Earrings, paired with a Bright Blue Adjustable Beaded Bauble Ring to keep those paparazzi flashbulbs blinding you into online infamy. And why wouldn’t you be noticed? You’re wearing some bold statement jewelry that are exclusively available to only the very discerning customer, YOU!
Bright Blue Adjustable Beaded Bauble Ring by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry on Etsy
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Gold Ice Charmed Ring by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry Copyright 2012
…a picture is, worth 1,000 clicks, I mean. Poetic and cryptically clever. It is every online businesses’ dream to get 1,000 clicks and I can personally attest, it takes around 1,000 clicks to edit every single photo I have online. Well, those that I want to look fantastically polished and professional. Today’s post: every thousand click photo in all its screenarrific glory, the behind the scene process.
First, the choice. Oh so many,. I generally look for the photo that has the brightest white background. I’m still stunned how bright it is in the light box when I shoot the photo and how dark the photo turns out once I get it on my pc to edit. Nevermind….
Choices
Now I have the chosen one…
The Chosen One
This little photo needs some levels adjustment I love Levels. It brightens up the white background without losing the detail in the jewelry item. Like so…
Levels
And now we need to brighten this sucker up. Brightening it loses some detailing but Contrast seems to bring it back again. Dunno how it works, it just does. See…
Brightness and Contrast
Now lets lightening up that pic just a smidge and bring some colour back into those beads with Hue and Saturation. This secret weapon has something called Lightening that gets rid of any stubborn shadows in the corners.
Hue and Saturation
Golly, that’s an awful big photograph. I think I’ll crop it down to a more internet-friendly size. Setting the crop size…
Cropping
That’s better…
Cropped
Now we have something to be proud of. But it still needs some tweaking here and there… secret work being done behind the velvet certain (bangs, crashes, kabooms)
Last minute tidy
And I give you, The Chosen One.
Red Blue Green Charmed Ice by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry Copyright 2012 - left facing.
Note the name of the photo. Apparantly you can inbed the copyright name in the photo to protect against anyone who may use it for "nefarious" purposes. They can still take it but you have proof of it being yours. I'm still working on doing that...I can't track down the blog that I read it on. D'oh...
Now, I only have to repeat all those steps for the right profile photo, the left profile photo, the front facing photo and the backwards facing photo. And I have to do THAT for all of my rings. I’m going to be a very busy Twinkle…
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During my sisters jaunts to the UK she sent me a link. But not just any old link. It was a link to a bead catalogue. The shop? Only the bestest little bead shop containing the coolest beads in the land Beadworks. She instructed me to go through the shop and choose whatever I wanted and she would get it for me. Naturally I would pay her back when she came up with the goods. So I go on my webby way, clicking and printing out stuff I wanted, and after converting to NZ $, falling to the floor in a financial faint, I trimmed my dream shopping list down to the most special of special beads that I knew I couldn’t get here in EnZed – you know, all of the good ones.
Oriental Butterfly Necklaces by Glamour Twinkles
Among my order were some fantastic copper enameled butterfly pendants. Being somewhat of a butterfly fan (not the real insect kind though) I could not resist having these pendants in my stable. When my sister arrived back to the Land of the Long White Cloud and showed me the pendants I noticed, with mild alarm) they were much, muchbigger than I imagined. Too big for me to think of what to do with. And so these pretty little (well, large) pendants sat in their little sealed baggies until I could come up with an idea for using them.
Peach and Turquoise Oriental Butterfly Necklace by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry available on Etsy
One day, while flipping through Vogue back issues (don’t I sound like a lady of leisure) I noticed a necklace that had a very familiar look to it. I couldn’t quite put my finger on what is was…. oh my goodness. It was an exact replica of the Oriental Butterfly Necklace.
Yes, I blatantly copied someone elses work. What’s more, I’m blogging about it ONLINE! Isn’t imitation the highest form of flattery? No, I’m a big fat copy cat. Or, I’m making something that was once only available to the rarefied Vogue reader available to the normal average gal on the street. You or I for instance. And that, dear reader, is the story Behind the Twinkle.
ANZAC Day, it’s a day of remembrance, a day where soldiers proudly wear their medals. I actually find medals interesting. I recently learned that they must be in a specific order on a uniform, and that the colours have great significance. Also, during the Anzac parade you are allowed to wear the medals of your relative if they have slipped this mortal coil. My apartment building is actually on a flight path and every year I hear the air force jets fly over. Actually, this is New Zealand, we don’t really have much in the way of “jets” so our military helicopters fly over my building for the dawn service. What does all this random history have to do with Glamour Twinkles? A lot… well, a little bit actually.
Not so nice bracelet, chock full of potential Glamour Twinkles Jewelry pieces
I had done my Equip and Diva pilgrimage and purchased the above (yucky) bracelet. But, looking past at its ordinary blandness, I could see great potential. I snapped up two bracelets and went home to pull them apart.
Attaching chains to the top and bottom of the hearts I was struck with the “emblemness” of the earrings. At first I’d made the earrings using the same gold plated chains. Yawn. They looked nice but the world is full of “nice” jewelry pieces. I wanted “interesting” earrings. Rummaging through my stock I found thin silver plated chains and, affixing them to the bottom of the medals I had created Emblem Earrings.
The name has caused me confusion. Whenever I make a new piece I generally have a name in mind, and no matter what, I always remember it. Until these earrings came into being. In my mind they’re called emblem earrings or medallion earrings. I always get the names mixed up. But I’ve got to think about names that potential customers would search for on Etsy. I don’t like my chances of someone jumping on Etsy to search for medallion earrings. Not that emblem earrings is any more likely to be searched for, but I have to call them something. They remind me of medals so the medal name stays.
I’ve hit 100 items in my Etsy shop! Happy Hundreds Day, Glamour Twinkles.
Nothing viewably exciting to report to my little fan base. I’ve been chipping away at my mountain of To Do Tasks this week. It’s all boring behind the scenes stuff – updating Etsy tags, uploading some new photos for random items and editing my fabulous new media friendly photos for my e-course. I know, I know, I started the marketing e-course in January (damned blog making my procrastination a public concern).
Work in progress, getting that white background...
I’m not completely happy with the first lot of media photos I took last week, so I’ve spent some of this lovely long weekend shooting more photos. I will have high res white background photographs on my media page if it kills me.
Trialled a flash for this shot. Kinda like the look of it...
Actually, I’m rather enjoying shooting the photos. I even dug out the instruction manual for by beloved Pentax I-10. I’m definitely NOT enjoying trying to “style” or “pose” necklaces and bracelets for their portrait. I ‘m looking for photos tat scream “oh wow”. At the moment my photos say “meh”. Ands I don’t want to use filters and showbiz effects on the finished product. I want to do as little photo editing as possible to achieve a plain white background.
It makes me appreciate a great jewelry photo. I used to look at photo of a diamond ring and say “so?” Now I look at a photo of a diamond ring and say: how the heck does that not have any shadow, no reflection of the photographer, even, crisp white background and on and on and on.
Truth time: I’ve had these necklaces in my jewelry stable for a while but I love them. I love the juxtaposition of the dainty black chain against the big chain. Hey, what poet laureate hijacked by blog!?
I’m back. These necklaces are actually secretly named after Biggie Smalls. Yep, that is the original true life Behind the Twinkle story to the Gangster in Lil Gangster Necklaces. Now I know the “g” word has negative connotations (dang laureate’s back again) but that is the honest truth behind the gangster label – in this case. One day/night, I was watching some video show, a Biggie vid comes on, he’s wearing humongous (undoubtedly genuine) gold chains. Thus was born the first incantation of the Lil Gangster Necklace.
Lil Gangster Diamante Filigree Heart - Original OG
But it was a little ordinary for me. I found a bunch of black thinner chains that I draped all across the original necklace to “goth it up”, making it look a little bit more like something I want to convey to my market (bugger off business plan girl, being back the laureate).
The ones you see on my Etsy shop are the only ones in the whole world. So you better snap ‘em up before they all gone (sic). Chuckles, oh laureate, you jokester, you.
