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.

Pure Sin Pure-ity Necklace by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry

Pure White Trash Pure-ity Necklace by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry

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!

White Skull Gold Cross Black Key Voodoo Earrings by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry, available from Etsy

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.

Black Noir Chunky Charm Bracelet by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry available on Etsy

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?

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.

Red Adjustable Beaded Bauble Ring by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry, available on Etsy

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!!

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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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Last week I put in an order with Craftrunner. My charms and pendants arrived two days later (fantastically speedy service!). A couple of days after that while messing around with some feathered earrings that weren’t looking very glamour twinklesy, I tried out my new charms, namely “pistols” and “flowers” and BAM! The clever pun earrings are born – sans a proper range name.  Sneaky earrings peak below:

Guns n Roses Feather Earrings by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry - soon to be available on Etsy

They might’ve been inducted in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, and now you can wear ‘em in your lobes:  Guns and Roses Feather Earrings. Chortle to your heart’s delight over the name.  I certainly did.  My only problem is how to attach guns.  I can’t decide which style I prefer, gun pointing downwards; or gun balanced across ways.  And my question was somewhat answered on Twitter:

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And thanks to @justhadto I now have a clever little joke for my Etsy description.

Below are the Rosie Crucian Feather Earrings.  Rosicrucians are a group of sorts.  Their name comes from the rose and the cross, hence the Rosie Crucian moniker.

Behind the Twinkle - Rosie Crucian Feather Earrings

The rose pendants I used here turned out to be much bigger than I thought when I ordered them from Craftrunner.  Luckily, I’m fairly easygoing when it comes to exact measurements so I just adjust the jewelry design in my minds’ eye and everything turns out A OK.