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Item Update

New Pirate Hair Jewels

Here is the latest batch of new Pirate Hair Jewels I’ve listed in the Faire Treasures Etsy shop. I’ll have the available Pirate Hair Jewels pages here updated as soon as possible!

     

     

     

     

I’m aiming to have new listings of Mini Cloaks up within the next two weeks. I’m also hoping that one of them will be the beginning of my Bridal series of Mini Cloaks!

Item Update Let me tell a story

The reoccurence of an icon

Okay, well, calling one of my own items an icon seems to me a bit silly, but anyone who’s visited my website and shop or had one of my business cards has seen this image.

It’s my favorite image of any of the Hair Jewels I’ve created, and clearly a favorite to those who frequent my shop. Any similar Pirate Hair Jewels that I’ve used this as the main image has always been the Hair Jewels with the most item hearts. It didn’t take very long after listing the strand in this photo to sell, and since then I’ve had several requests to recreate it. I’ve had a few problems with those requests, the main one being each strand of Hair Jewels I create is one of a kind. I feel it devalues the individuality of the strand, and I really don’t want to remake the same thing over and over again. This is also apart of why I don’t make Jack Sparrow replica Hair Jewels.

Another big part of recreating any strand of Hair Jewels is that I don’t always have the same materials. The beads I use I have limited quantities of, and when I’ve used them up, I don’t get any more. But the beads are only part of the creation, since a huge draw of this piece is the tribal pendant it features. The tribal pendants I use are often of a kind themselves, so finding a pendant similar to the one I used before is very difficult. Oddly enough and definitely to my surprise, I did recently find a pendant very similar to the one in my photo.

Obviously I wouldn’t make the same thing over again, but I could make something similar with the same organization to it. I used carved bone where wood had been, used more colors of beads where metallic glass had been, and created a new one of a kind strand of Hair Jewels that has the same feel as the one in the above photo. I’ve listed this new strand on Etsy, and it can be found by following this link: Specialty Pirate Hair Jewels.

Item Update

New Pirate and Fairy Hair Jewels

I’ve been busy the past week making and photographing twenty new Hair Jewels–eighteen Pirate Hair Jewels and two Woodland Fairy Hair Jewels. These may be the last Woodland Fairy Hair Jewels I make since I used up the last of the charms I had for them. Two of the Pirate Hair Jewels have dangle pendants, seven are Medium Pirate Hair Jewels, and nine are Short Pirate Hair Jewels. I ended up running out of barrettes to make more Hair Jewels with!

When I put my Hair Jewels together, I tend to group beads together based on themes. Being an art student (I’m not in school anymore, but aren’t we all always learning?), I tend to associate colors with eras, items, and well, just about everything. Whether the observers of my Hair Jewels realize it or not, they’ve seen Pirate Hair Jewels inspired by Steampunk creations, the ocean, and even zombies. I do take quite a bit of time putting each one together, making sure the strand has a balanced look to it. If I don’t like how the beads are coming together, I’ll take it all apart and redo it.

I’ve begun listing the newest Hair Jewels in the shop, and will be updating the pages here with what all is available soon!