Don't have time to breath

Let alone make jewelry or be on ETSY to promote my shop...

Thank god it’s Thursday and the weekend is here so i can finally have some quality time in my living room, on the sofa, with all of my lovely materials laid out on the table, floor and what ever else i can find to put it on.

Actually the weekend is also going to be super busy with friends coming over for lunch and I promised to cook . Oh God, I don't cook...at all. But I promised myself and my husband I will try it out. So hopefully I don’t cause anyone any food poisoning and i will share the pictures tomorrow.

In the meantime, I made this super cute starfish on a beach pebble and I hope to decide if it will be a ring or a pendant during the weekend and finish it.

It's all about geometry

I often wonder who are the trend setters, the people who start trends or set trends - i don’t know what to call them. I mean I was never one of those people who eagerly followed the fashioniests (is that what you call those people in fashion?), who kept track of all of the coolest blogs so I really don’t understand the process.

Is there someone who wakes up one morning and decides "I'm liking mint this morning, I think that’s what next summer will be about" Or "geometry is cool, that should be a theme"?

The reason I ask is because lately I do get to see a lot more of whats trending, being on Etsy so often, browsing through Pinterest and all the other cool places and you know what? They are just swamped with these trends. I mean every second item I see on Etsy is about geometry - triangles, squares, vintage squares, vintage triangles...

well I think trends are cool I just wonder who makes them up.

All this geometry got me thinking, I have these beautiful blue beads just waiting in one of my boxes, Its time I take them out and have a bit of geometry fun.

I seriously love this necklace, too bad I only have 1 set of these beads...

A Tulip A Day

I wrote the shop's about page in Etsy today and I realized its a nice intro so why not share it here...

So my friends and Family call me Tully but my husband changed it a bit a started calling me Tulip. I loved it, because I love the flower and the fact he always uses that nickname when he is being extra sweet to me. That’s why I used it in the shop, the name makes me feel special and I hope my jewelry makes the person wearing it feel special too.

I didn’t really wear a lot of jewelry because growing up I worked at a horse stable and couldn’t really wear it, so in the last 8-9 years I’ve been making up for lost time. It started with a fascination with jewelry - window shopping, buying, wearing.... around 2008 it grow into an interest in making it myself.

I started with simple things using beads but then in 2010 I decided I want to know how to work with metals, precious metals to be exact. So i took 3 lessons in a small shop in Tel-Aviv and started testing out my abilities.

I've been making jewelry since those lessons, learning on-line and from trial and error and there have been a lot of errors :) but I enjoy the process.

I really believe jewelry should be unique so I only make 1-2 copies from a certain piece (usually once in gold and once in silver) because I think people want and appreciate that special touch and knowing that they are not going to see someone else wearing the exact same thing.

I started the shop on Etsy after selling a few pieces independently and I hope to reach a wider audience for my jewelry but to maintain the same concept - a few unique or custom pieces a week that I can share with people who will enjoy and appreciate it.

Pink Perfection

I started really making jewelry not too long ago - about 2 years just before my husband and I went on our trip around the world in 4.5 months.

I was so in love with making jewelry (and my then boyfriend :) ) that i couldn’t bear the thought of not making it for so long. But we were on the road, literally living out of a car and i couldn’t carry everything I needed with me....

It was 2.5 months into our trip when i walked into a little shop in Queenstown, New Zealand and found myself surrounded with beautiful beads from all over the world.

This is the lakes in Queenstown - Amazing!

There was a little table with different types of mussel shells and I just loved the Canadian pink mussel.

I have a few pieces that i carried from that shop through New Zealand, Hawaii and New York. Once of those pieces was used to make these cute earrings. They are super light and fun and totally remind me of NZ.