Sunday, October 5, 2008

Another New Kit to our Bali Princess Range


This is our latest kit - Bali Princess Earring Kit - Wonderful rich colours and bali findings make this earring kit really special. Sterling silver Bali chandelier hangs from our own sterling silver handmade earwires (with amethyst) and hanging below are dangles of amethyst & garnet beadsm the center dangle has a tanzanite ab Swarovski 5mm bicone nestled between bali style sterling silver bead caps.Approx 5.5cm long
Suitable for beginners and above, this kit is a nice introduction to wirewrapping dangles (Also available "Ready to Wear") - http://www.lavidalerie.com/EarringKits/BaliPrincessEarringKit.htm

Thursday, October 2, 2008

New Range of Earring Kits - Bali Princess


The handmade sterling silver findings from Bali finally arrived and I have designed a new range of earring kits, this is the first one - Bali Dancer Earring Kit and it is going to be part of our new range - Bali Princess - lots of shimmer and movement with 2 rows of sparkling Swarovskis in Emerald 2xab and Tanzanite ab and hanging from our own handmade earwires.


The kits are available on our website http://www.lavidalerie.com/BeadingKits.html as well as our Etsy shop http://www.lavidalerie.etsy.com/ and Dawanda shop http://http//en.dawanda.com/shop/LaVidalerie

Monday, September 22, 2008

La Vidalerie Jewelry Making Kits







La Vidalerie is a mix of my love of jewellery making and Tim's design background. Our website http://www.lavidalerie.com/ grew from my need to keep an active link to creating whilst we re-build a ruined farmhouse to provide jewellery making holidays in Aveyron, South-Western France. (We are running jewellery making breaks at Christmas 2008 http://www.lavidalerie.com/ChristmasNewYearJewelleryMakingBreaks.htm


Since the beginning of this year the site has grown from just selling my handmade jewellery to offering a range of gorgeous sterling silver charms & findings http://www.lavidalerie.com/FindingsandCharms.htm, our own Swarovski bicone mixes and now an ever growing number of high quality jewellery making kits http://www.lavidalerie.com/BeadingKits.html.





We design each kit as if we were making a one off item of jewellery, we only use sterling silver, semi-precious stones and high quality beads such as Swarovski and Miyuki. We try to make the instruction sheets as easy to follow as possible, many have hand drawn diagrams which we have found to be easier to follow than photographs.




This is one of our latest kits, Fairy Garden Charm Bracelet Kit