Today I wanted to share with you all some of my favourite
fairy tale jewellery currently listed on Etsy.com
I love all five of these
pieces and I hope you do too! I love looking at other peoples work whether it
is jewellery or art or beauty products to find new ways of thinking about
things. It’s always refreshing to see other people’s interpretations because it
may give you new ideas, or at the very least new ways of thinking about things
you want to do. This is especially useful when you have creative block and can’t
seem to think of any ideas. Of course,
do not lift or copy ideas from other people-that is not acceptable. But you
can use other people’s ideas and interpretations as a spring board to bounce
your own ideas off.
Because my ideas centre on fairy tales, I thought it would
be nice to explore this theme in the first features page on here.
The first piece is a bracelet by a very talented jewellery
maker called Laughing Vixen Lounge. It’s a really good piece to look at as an “inspired
by” item. It’s very obviously a piece inspired by the Snow White story.
You can see the classic mirror as a charm on the bracelet,
as well as the apple, the dwarf, the witch, the prince and the princess charms
which all feature in the story. The bead colours enhance the bracelet as well
because the red stands out amongst them, mimicking the red of the tempting shiny
apple that snow white bites into to her doom.
Although a relatively simple piece, it is a very nice piece that shows
where the inspiration has come from very nicely. It is a lovely dainty bracelet
full of the wonders of Snow White.
This next piece is by a unique jewellery maker called petiteVanilla. It’s
a gorgeous hand crafted resin pendant with the fantastic picture of Little Red
Riding Hood and the Wolf on it. I love the simplicity of the design and the
lovely bright colours that lift the image from the resin.
I love this piece because it is playful. The image has such wonderful
colours and the figures are very stylised. It feels like the pendant is almost
like a link back to childhood where those fairy tales were often told in their
lighter and much more playful forms.
Again, this is a relatively simple piece but utterly sweet, incorporating
something old from the brass chain look and the very new look of the picture in
the pendant.
This next piece is a by a very experienced Etsy seller called Nixxi Rose.
It is a gorgeous piece inspired by The Frog Prince story. Now, I only know two
versions of this story; the short, she got talking to a frog in the Castle
pond, and kissed it versions and the longer Disney version. Whichever one you
know, this piece certainly feels like it sprung from the swamps for me.
With gorgeous dragonfly and frog charms along with the beautiful green,
brass and pink colourings, it seems to encapsulate the whole feel of a swamp.
But with such beauty that you’d think only a princess could wear it! It is
delicate and a great homage to the tale.
This piece inspired me because I had completely forgotten about that
story! Bringing it to life in this wonderful bracelet reminded me that every
story can inspire you to create anything.
This next piece is one of the cutest items I have ever seen. I really
love it – again because I had not even thought of that tale, and it completely
inspired me because of it. This is a necklace by Zala and its main focus is a
shoe made of polymer clay.
As you can see, this little shoe seems to be inspired by the English
nursery rhyme called “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe”.
There was an old woman who
lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread;
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread;
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
(Variations of this rhyme are available!) My main medium is polymer clay
so when I saw this I thought it was fantastic! And the idea that you can be
inspired to make such luscious jewellery out of a nursery rhyme completely
opened my ideas to more media that I can be inspired by for my own work.
Finally, this piece is by a jeweller who we have met before: Laughing Vixen
Lounge. Anyone who knows me personally will know that I absolutely love
mermaids, especially the tale about The Little Mermaid. Therefore, I simply HAD
to include a mermaid themed piece of jewellery.
This is exquisite and a completely different idea to the first bracelet
I showed you that was made by the same artist. Firstly, it has some wonderful
vintage looking photo charms with gorgeous pictures. The blue beads compliment
the bracelet by looking almost like bubbles in the sea. I love the green beads
and the ones with bobbles on that give this bracelet a wonderful texture and
lovely full feeling. Finally, to finish the bracelet there are some lovely
silver charms of things that you would expect to find in the sea.
The whole piece has this wonderful magical quality to it and it is a
lovely tribute to the theme of mermaids.
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I hope you have enjoyed this week’s features. Hopefully it has inspired
you to keep creating! I know it has me! Thank you to all the artists who
allowed me to post their items on here and write about them, they are all
exquisite pieces!
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What a lovely post. Thanks for including my bracelets. I'm glad they can inspire 8)
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