Yuki no Hana - Customised

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack!

(Australia was awesome, thanks for asking. :p I came back with tons of chocolates and biscuits, and unevenly sun-burnt skin. Oh ozone layer, why do you forsake the land down under? Summer in Melbourne is weird, I tell ya. One day it's 37 freaking degrees, the next it's a freezing 15 degrees. Madness.)

Hope all of you had a lovely Christmas. 

It's befitting that I post some Christmas-themed trinkets the day after Christmas, yeah? Here is the previously posted Yuki no Hana set, now in shades of rich red and sparkling silver. This was customised for Kelsey. :)

Shades of silver, red and pretty snowflake charms.

Item Code & Name: SET025 Yuki no Hana (Customised)

Price: RM20.00 (bracelet + earrings) - items can be sold separately, please look below.

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Please see below.

 Little red chinese crystal doughnuts add a dash of colour to the clear / silver crystals and charms.

Item Code & Name: 148 Yuki no Hana (Customised) (Earrings)  
Price: RM8.00 (earrings only)

Status: [Sold 2], Available for remakes

Materials: Red and Silver-Clear Chinese Crystal Doughnuts, Clear Swarovski Bicones, Snowflake Charms

 Rich ruby red and silver-clear chinese crystal doughnuts form the chain of the bracelet, interspersed with pretty snowflake links and the same snowflake charm as the earrings.

Item Code & Name: 149 Yuki no Hana (Bracelet)

Price: RM15.00 (bracelet only)

Status: [Sold 3], Available for remakes

Materials: Red and Silver-Clear Chinese Crystal Doughnuts, Clear Round-Faceted Chinese Crystal, Snowflake Links, Snowflake Charm

Measurements: Approximately 17cm (including clasp) + 2.5cm extender chain

Since we're on the topic of snowflakes and snow, has everyone watched Frozen yet? I looove the movie and Elsa's powers are way beyond cool (pun intended, hehe). Everybody watch this sequence, powerfully performed by the illustrious Idina Menzel:

Let the storm rage on...

The cold never bothered me anyway.

❄

Winter Wonderland | White Winter Hymnal Collection: Part 5

Hello folks!

Hope you're having a lovely Saturday so far! This morning, I attended my friend's beautiful wedding, so my heart is full of love and my stomach is full of food. Life's good. Haha! :)

We've come to the last post of the White Winter Hymnal collection - can you believe that Christmas is in a month's time? Hope you're all excited for it like I am! In Malaysia, where we have one huge rainy / humid / hot season, we don't get the wonder of snow in the winter. I have always loved this song, though:

Sleigh bells ring

Are you listening

In the lane

Snow is glistening

A beautiful sight

We're happy tonight

Walking in a winter wonderland

This bracelet and earring set is inspired by the song above -- a winter wonderland, with shades of snowy white, frosty blue, and glistening silver, and many a snowflake. 

Item Code & Name: SET020 Winter Wonderland

Price: RM27.00 (bracelet + earrings) - items can be sold separately, please look below.

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Please see below.

 Three different types of snowflake charms, shiny silver pearls, silver-clear and cloudy white chinese crystal doughnuts and frosty blue round-faceted chinese crystals.

 I love the symmetry of this bracelet. :D

Item Code & Name: 122 Winter Wonderland (Bracelet)

Price: RM23.00 (bracelet only) SALE: RM16 only (30% off, while item remains Available)

Status: Available

Materials: Cloudy White and Silver-Clear Chinese Crystal Doughnuts, Cloudy Blue Round-Faceted Chinrese Crystals, Silver Faux Pearls, Snowflake Links, Snowflake Charms

Measurements: Approximately 18cm

 Again, tis hard to capture the frosty white of the crystals against a white background, so please refer to the images below for something clearer. These earrings feature star-like snowflake charms, and the same crystals that make an appearance in the charm bracelet.

Item Code & Name: 123 Winter Wonderland (Earrings)

Price: RM8.00 (earrings only)

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Cloudy Blue Round-Faceted Chinese Crystals, Cloudy White and Silver-Clear Chinese Crystal Doughnuts, Snowflake Charms

And here's a picture of the entire set against a silver background, to showcase the frosty white crystals better:

When it snows
Ain't it thrilling
Though your nose gets a chilling
We'll frolic and play the Eskimo way
Walking in a winter wonderland

That's the end of this collection, do email me if you'd like to buy them for yourself or as Christmas presents!

daintylittletrinkets@gmail.com

*runs off singing Christmas carols at the top of her lungs*

Good Tidings | White Winter Hymnal Collection: Part 4

This is the fourth post from the White Winter Hymnal collection - we have almost reached the end! Hope you've been enjoying the posts so far. If not... what are you doing here? Ahaha just kidding. Please stay. Don't leave meee...

Melodrama aside, no Christmas collection is complete without one focusing on the true message of Christmas - not the presents, not the eggnog by the fireplace, not the lovely Christmas lights, not the fancy feasts (though all those things are fun and nice) - but the message of the birth of Jesus! 

Please feel free to move on from this post if it makes you uncomfortable, for faith is a personal thing. I just wanted to make a bracelet to reflect mine. :) There are these verses in the Bible that go:

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord"

Luke 2: 10-11

Good tidings of love and joy and hope - hopefully this bracelet reflects that.

 Crimson and opaque white crystals, a dove to symbolise peace, Love, Joy, Hope, a cross and the star of Bethlehem - that which led the three wise men to Jesus.

 A clearer view of the Hope bead that's part of the chain.

Item Code & Name: 121 Good Tidings

Price: RM20.00

Status: [Sold 2], Available for remakes

Materials: Siam and Cloudy White Chinese Crystal Doughnuts, Hope Bead, Dove Charm, Joy Charm, Cross Charm, Love Charm, Star Charm
Measurements: Approximately 17.5 cm (including clasp)

*Edited to add (30 Jan 2014)*

This bracelet now comes with matching earrings, which you can see here! Purchase this bracelet together with the earrings for a promotional price of RM28. :)

And here's a preliminary wish to all of you reading this - wishing you love, joy, hope and peace this coming holiday season. 

Good night.

Poinsettia | White Winter Hymnal Collection: Part 3

Hello all!

Hope the week has been treating you well so far. :)

We've come to the midway point of the White Winter Hymnal collection! After the snowy white and silvery blue shades of the past two installments, it's time to introduce a little red into the picture in the form of a necklace named Poinsettia, after the lovely crimson flower that is widely used as a decoration during Christmas.

Mexican legend has it that a young girl was too poor to contribute to a celebration of Jesus' birthday. An angel inspired her to gather some weeds and place them at the church altar, after which crimson Poinsettia flowers bloomed from the weeds. What a sweet story - also serving as a reminder that God can make beautiful anything that we give with a sincere heart.

 An intricate antique silver-plated pendant that brings to mind the many-petaled flower, with crimson chinese crystals and flower links on the chain.

 Closeup. This pendant is so pretty, I almost wish I had an exact replica 10 times larger to hang on my Christmas tree.

Adorn your neck with some festive cheer!

Item Code & Name: 120 Poinsettia

Price: RM18.00

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Siam Chinese Crystal Doughnuts, Flower Links, Poinsettia Pendant
Measurements: Approximately 43.5 cm (including clasp) + 3.5cm extender chain; Drop = 3.5cm

As always,

I can be reached at

daintylittletrinkets@gmail.com

Sale is still going on, so hurry hurry!

Yuki no Hana | White Winter Hymnal Collection: Part 2

No winter collection is complete without snowflakes.

It speaks of the magnificence and specificity of God's creation, that these tiny little specks of snow are so beautifully intricate - patterns not visible to the naked eye but so delightfully complex when examined under a microscope.  

I previously made this pair of earrings for myself, as snowflake charms look so very pretty dangling from one's ears. As the second installment of the White Winter Hymnal Collection, these earrings are making a reappearance, now in a set with a matching bracelet.

Wintry shades - sparkling crystals in clear, silver and sapphire hues, paired with lovely snowflake links and charms.

Item Code & Name: SET019 Yuki no Hana

Price: RM20.00 (bracelet + earrings) - items can be sold separately, please look below.

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Please see below.

Sapphire, silver and clear crystals in varying cuts, capped off at the end with snowflake charms. These snowflake charms are especially eyecatching against a lovely mane of black / brown hair.

Item Code & Name: 002 Yuki no Hana (Earrings)

Price: RM8.00 (earrings only)

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Sapphire Round-Faceted Chinese Crystals, Silver-Clear Chinese Crystal Doughnuts, Clear Swarovski Bicones, Snowflake Charms

 Sapphire and silver-clear chinese crystal doughnuts form the chain of the bracelet, interspersed with pretty snowflake links and the same snowflake charm as the earrings.

Item Code & Name: 119 Yuki no Hana (Bracelet)

Price: RM15.00 (bracelet only)

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Sapphire and Silver-Clear Chinese Crystal Doughnuts, Sapphire Round-Faceted Chinrese Crystal, Snowflake Links, Snowflake Charm

Measurements: Approximately 17cm (including clasp) + 2.5cm extender chain

Whatchu waiting for?

Grab it while the November sale is still going on! :)

♥

Frosty | White Winter Hymnal Collection: Part 1

Top of the morning to ya!

This post is the first post in the White Winter Hymnal Collection! :)

What better way to start of a collection about winter than with one of the things people in countries with four seasons love doing -- making snowmen!

Frosty the snowman, was a jolly happy soul

With a corncob pipe and a button nose

And two eyes made out of coal

Here's Frosty:

  

Shiny opaque white faux pearls and shell beads form the snowmen, with little flower links resting atop their heads. 

Here's a better view of the earrings against a silver background.

Item Code & Name: 118 Frosty

Price: RM8.00

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: White Opaque Faux Pearls, White Shell Beads, Flower Links

Remember, there is a November-wide sale! 

Click here for more details. :D

White Winter Hymnal Collection - Masterpost

Winter is coming.

Game of Thrones shoutout, haha! Not that I watch GoT religiously -- too much death and destruction and despair. Daenerys and her dragons, though? They're cool. Maybe one day I'll make a trinket dedicated to her. Anyway, today's post is not about Game of Thrones, but about the end of the year!

I'm sure we're all looking forward to December.

The end of the year brings about rest and relaxation, reaping the rewards of your full year of labour; it means a time of thanksgiving and reflection, and it also means Christmas - lots of gift-giving and merry feasting and festive cheer!

It's never too soon for a collection dedicated to Christmas and the turn of the seasons, yeah? It's mid November, after all! Introducing the White Winter Hymnal collection - title inspired by a song by Fleet Foxes that I shall share further down.

With posts starting this coming Saturday, this collection will feature some wintry and Christmassy designs - shades of frosty white, sparkling silver, cool blue, and ruby red.

Part 1: Frosty

Part 2: Yuki no Hana

Part 3: Poinsettia

Part 4: Good Tidings

Part 5: Winter Wonderland

If you're looking for some Christmassy handmade creations as gifts for your friends, or if you feel like purchasing something for yourself for some festive cheer, look no further - this collection is for you! :)

And here is the song that this collection is named after:

This is Birdy's cover of Fleet Foxes' original.

If you pay attention to the lyrics, you'll realise they are actually quite morbid, but the melody is so sweet and carol-like. Makes me wanna frolic in the snow and make snow angels and sit by the fireplace with a mug of hot cocoa. #tropicalcountrydreams

(Dear self, why are you hashtagging things like this is Twitter / Instagram?)

It's time for bed, obviously.

Sleep tight, people of the world, and it'll be Christmas before you know it.

☆