Bitten by the crystal bug

I was so caught up with Navaratri, golu arrangements, classes and freelance projects, that I hardly have any time to blog, let alone make something new. So here is something I wanted to blog about for last month but kept forgetting – my experiments with the crystal trend.
I originally wanted to name this post ~ Bitten by the Swarovski bug, but the company has issued a notice, that people should not refer to that name when not using original Swarovski projects and I think that it is only fair that we follow it.

From Start to finish I am a bling girl and it is in my blood that I love stones and crystals. at one point I had amassed so many stone items that I had to give them all away. I stopped wearing stones once I started working and ever since they are all sleeping in my cupboard. So when I chanced upon Ornamentea’s craft page, I was inspired to make this bracelet immediately to reuse my crystal chain. I remember buying this chain and a bracelet like this many years ago during my first to a mall, in a city – Spencer plaza. It was also the first piece of branded jewelry that I bought and it was from Westside.Most of the chunky accessories I bought after that were from westside and they have gotten me loads of compliments whenever I wore them.

Then there is this beautiful, double strand necklace that I made using real glass cut crystals, that I sourced in Nepal for really good price. There were lying unused in my stash and finally I combined them this flower focal (like a mogappu used in Traditional Tamil jewelry) to make this necklace. Price –  Rs.300

Cheers