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Just checked gorgeous jewelry created by Valerie Ostenak. Her work is an on going dialogue between her blacksmith forging techniques, her silversmith craftsmanship and her design skills in art jewelry is superb.

Romance in Metal - Valerie Ostenak Jewelry

Her collections celebrate the contours and shapes suggested by all sorts of complex forms found in nature. Her Elemental Collection features silver, argentium silver, 14k gold, freshwater pearls, gemstones and Swarovski crystals in myriad curvilinear designs. Also, one can see Art Nouveau influences in her work.

Romance in Metal - Valerie Ostenak Jewelry

But most of all, this artist infuses her work with the essence of romance. And you can’t go wrong with Romance. To check out more of her jewelry you can visit her website.

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So today, I came accross this awesome jewelry website that wholesale freshwater pearls direct from their pearl farms. I was amazed looking at their vast collection.

You would find wholesale freshwater pearls, pearl jewelry & pearl findings and settings in 14k, 18k gold and silver on their website. The collection which you can filter by types of pearls, be it MOP, or pearl in oysters, or tiger eye beads, or crystal pearls, or coin pearls anything related to pearl is here.

Pearl Pendant in 925 Silver by Oriental perals

They also have lots of pearl jewelry, including rings, earrings, brooches, pendants, bracelets etc. All of these you get at wholesale price without any middleman being involved. What more, when you place your first order you get free pearl earrings :-).

So if you are looking for pearls, or pearl jewelry do checkout this website.

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To start the week, featuring now in this series – very beautiful bird nest earrings by Melike Firat. This earrings feature ocean blue freshwater pearl eggs in sterling silver bird nest. The nest is made from lengths of silver wire hand weaved irregularly into a ball shape. Each nest measure approximately 1/2 inches in diameter.

The earrings are finished with beautiful long sterling silver ear wires that wraps behind the ear very securely. The length is 1.5 inches. This piece is so adorable and distinct in design, you will certainly get attention wherever you wear them!

You can buy this piece for only $32, from their etsy shop – ACupOfSparkle

If you are a Jewelry artist, and would like to feature your creations here – do email us at info@jewelstruck.com

Have a fun filled week ahead.

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Team JewelStruck

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Beautiful Bracelet with Pearls Pearls & more Pearls

I love freshwater pearls and these days the possibilities are endless with freshwater pearls! You can get them in any shape or color. My favorite shape is keshi, which look kinda like fruity pebbles. Lately I have been making bracelets that involve a lot of pearls. I pick a color, then vary the shades and shapes to make a charm-like bracelet. I hand string freshwater pearls with swarovski crystals onto antique copper and brass headpins and wrap em up tight! Then I painstakingly open and close chain links and indivually add one pearl at a time. I try to throw in a glass or gemstone briolette here and there.

To finish it off I add a toggle clasp. This clasp here is an antique coppper flower toggle clasp that I import for Istanbal, Turkey! To veiw more pics of this bracelet head over to my etsy store at GeishaCreations.etsy.com

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Sunset

If you are like me, you have pearls all over the place, including the floor. As you know, pearls come in many different sizes and shapes. They are all beautiful and add that something special to a piece of jewelry.

I recently collected up all of my stray pearls from the floor of my studio and decided to create something with them.

Since I did not have enough for an entire necklace and there were too many different sizes to create a bracelet where they were simply string on beading wire, I decided to drill larger holes in them and knot them on linen.

While drilling pearls is not overly difficult, it is very dusty project and you MUST wear a mask to avoid breathing in all of that dust.

After the pearls were drilled, they were strung and knotted on black linen. The clasp is actually a button and works quite well on this piece as it breaks up the color and adds some shine.

This project will work with any color or shapes of pearls. So check out your stash of loose pearls and let’s see what you come up with!

You can check more of my creations here – http://jewelrybyfrancine.com/

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