Cinderella - Golden Rutile Quartz 14K solid yellow gold earrings. Handmade wire wrapped jewelry by Arctida

This week EST challenge's theme was "Cinderella" hosted by P8Accessories.

I started to think what kind of jewelry could Cinderella wear to a ball to match that beautiful dress and most important the shoes! Because that’s what most of us probably picture when we hear *Cinderella* - a pretty, tiny, sparkling, missing crystal shoe :)

Anyway, I thought that huge faceted Crystal Clear Quartz briolettes would be a perfect match for Cinderella’s crystal slippers and since it is a ball with a prince why not make it luxurious and wire wrap it in solid 14K gold! In the end to make it even more sparkly, I chose faceted Quartz briolettes with gorgeous golden rutiles. A perfect match for Cinderella’s golden hair, don’t ya think :)

 Golden Rutilated Quartz earrings

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Fanny - Mystic Pink Quartz onion briolettes simple earrings wire wrapped in 14K Gold Filled.

I was thinking about making a cute summer necklace for my 4 years old daughter and then I saw these adorable Mystic Pink Quartz faceted onion briolettes, I knew they were perfect for my project :)


I haven’t decided yet what I will do for my daughter… so little time, so many ideas :) but in the mean time I’ve made a pair of simple earrings for the grown up girls who love pink and gold! Fanny - cute, girly and shiny with tons of sparkle!

Violante - Pink Amethyst and Peach Pearls wire wrapped and coiled asymmetric lariat necklace in Sterling Silver

The Sun is shining, the weather is warm and so the short-summer-top-season is approaching :) So here is a sparkling lariat necklace for those pretty summer tops! Violante - Pink Brazilian Amethyst, Peach Pearls and Purple African Amethyst in Sterling Silver.

My NEW Handmade Luxury Collection - Solid 18K and 14K Gold handforged jewelry with high quality Gemstones

I’ve been working with solid gold for a couple of years now, mostly 18K as 14K is not that popular here in Sweden and almost always as a custom orders. But I think the time has come for me to finally start making my "own" creations in solid Gold. So here comes my first two pieces...

Eos - Smokey Quartz, Citrine and Solid 18K Yellow Gold Earrings

Calypso - Sky Blue Topaz, Citrine and Solid 14K Yellow Gold Earrings

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Weekly challenge’s winner!

As those of you who’ve read my blog probably already know, our Our European Street Team has been having weekly challenges and this week *surprise, surprise* I'm the WINNER! (drawn by ArtMind at random).

Here is my entry that won the theme "Cute": Fiore Grazioso - Aqua Quartz, Copper and Pearl necklace. The name means "Cute flower" in Italian :)

The whole point of the weekly challenge is to motivate us to create new things and I’m glad I’ve participated this time (duh!), it “made” me try completely new style, new techniques, new materials and on top of everything I won! Woohoo!

Since I’m the boss of this week the new theme will be … “Science Fiction”! I can't wait to see what my team will come up with :)

My latest creations

I'm in love with the vines :) I mean wire vines, although I do like the grape ones too :) So lately I've been experimenting with different shapes. I have already posted a couple of designs (Kiena and Neda) with the vines and here are my latest ones (Niolle och Domani)

and I have taken my first picture with a model! My hubby's pretty cousin has graciously agreed to model for me, and if you look close there are vines there too :)