Bohemian Style Jewelry

Welcome to my

Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry Blog Celebration Weekend Post!

I am excited to share with you a new publication ....

Interest has swayed to a looser time, a wild feeling, a step-out-of-your-corset-into-your-patch-work-skirt kinda mood.

And the jewelry to go with it?

Oh yes, I felt that mood swing. 

Bohemian Inspired Jewelry

by

Lorelei Eurto and Erin Siegel

This book is F.U.N. 

Imaginative. Textural, with materials that you can't stop fingering.

Several projects in this book have inspired a new twist in design for me and I am eager for it to get to you also. 

Purchase a copy now and maybe by summer's end you could  have 50 days worth of accessories to compliment your  bohemian wardrobe!
I'm not even kidding, this book is packed with
50 different designs! 

Here is my start;

I practiced lark's head knots, overhand knots and half hitch knots to complete these earrings;

Copper Antiquity Earrings by Erin Siegel 
(design instructions in the book Bohemian Inspired Jewelry) 
This led to lark's head knots with various pieces of metal I had laying around and left over pieces of waxed linen;

Rain Garden Necklace
A forged sterling frame features a patinated piece of copper metal clay and Czech glass bead fringe. 

A Fools Urn Necklace
Just tell me you can estimate how much cording you would use for this piece,
that pre-measured, inside knowledge alone is worth the book.

Earrings inspired by Lorelei's design "Flying through Hoops" have been fun to mix up with the unique feature of using leather as hanging bales for special beads & links;

Cerise Squared Earrings
(design instructions in the book)

The next projects I'm going to tackle will be "Unfolding" by Maire Dodd (she uses linen to create "roots"!) and "Garden Graces" by Lorelei Eurto (Kimono Cord! How rock star is that!?!)
I hope you will join me in creating your own versions of the leather, ribbon and cord designs Erin and Lorelei have complied for us here.

   

Both the E-book (how much do you need instant gratification?) and the BEAUTIFUL (as in, every glorious printed page has a design element that I love) print publication are on sale right now;

So go here for your print edition;

Bohemian Inspired Jewelry Print Edition 2012

on sale for $13.77

and visit here for the immediate download;

Bohemian Inspired Jewelry E-Book

on sale for $10.77

Wait! Before you leave to buy and create with your hands, Erin and Lorelei have set up a way to win 2 necklaces featured in the book and a copy of the book by creating Polyvore style boards showing us how you would wear one of the necklaces!

(If you're unfamiliar with the Polyvore site, just think of it in the same way you made clipped magazine collages when you were younger, it's just online now.)

So please visit here to get involved in this fashionable challenge ;

POLYVORE CHALLENGE 

Check out the rest of the celebration weekend by visiting these links;
Kicking it off: Beadingdaily.com
Meet the authors: Lorelei Eurto and Erin Segel
Say howdy to the book contributors: Denise Yezbak Moore, Mary Jane Dodd, Michelle Mach, and Tracy Statler
Then join us for the blog party with:

Amanda Davie - Articulations of Amanda Davie

Amy Freeland - Copper Diem

Andrew Thornton - The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton

Barbara Bechtel - Second Surf   

Beth Hemmila - Hint Jewelry      

Erin Prais-Hintz  - Treasures Found: Inspiration is Everywhere

Gaea Cannaday - Gaea Handmade          

Heather Powers - Art Bead Scene            

Heather Trudeau - The Peacock Fairy     

Kathleen Lange Klik - Modern Nature Studio

Keirsten Giles - Cerebral Dilettante         

Kristie Roeder - Artisan Clay       

Lori Anderson - Pretty Things    
Margot Potter - Margot Potter: live handmade 
Melanie Brooks - Earthenwood Studio  
Pearl Blay - The Beading Gem's Journal 
Rebecca Anderson  - Song Beads             
Rebekah Payne  - TreeWingsStudio          
Sally Russick - The Studio Sublime            
Shannon Chomanczuk- For My Sweet Daughter               
Shannon LeVart - Miss Fickle Media 
Staci Smith - Staci Smith Jewelry               
Stacie Florer - Soul to Substance         
Susan Kennedy - Sue Beads
 

Thank you for visiting and I hope you are inspired this weekend, I'll be here, wearing my new earrings!

Shannon