How Long Will I Love You | Inspired by Love Songs Collection: Part 5

Alas, we have come to the end of the Inspired by Love Songs collection.

I thought I'd end with the most romantic song of them all - How Long Will I Love You - a 1990 classic by The Waterboys, more recently covered by Ellie Goulding and featured in the movie About Time. The lyrics are unerringly romantic, made all the more sweet by the piano and strings-led melody and Ellie's soft, husky vocal stylings.

Inspired by this lovely tune, I made a sweet and simple bracelet that I think represents the song rather well.

 A simple chain bracelet with rose and clear crystal bicones flanking the infinity symbol at the centre - the answer to the question of "How long will I love you?". Dangling off the bracelet are a star charm and a rose Swarovski heart. 

How long will I love you?
As long as stars are above you
And longer, if I can.

 The bracelet against a silver background for a clearer view.

How long will I need you?
As long as the seasons need to
Follow their plan.

Item Code & Name: 171 How Long Will I Love You

Price: RM20.00 SALE: RM14 (30% off, while item remains Available)

Status: Available

Materials: Rose Swarovski Bicone, Clear Crystal Bicones, Infinity Link, Star Charm, Rose Swarovski Heart, Heart Clasp, Made With Love Charm

Measurements: Approximately 16cm (including clasp) + 2.5cm extender chain

Do email me at daintylittletrinkets@gmail.com if interested.

Much love to you (yes you!) for reading this. :)

We're all travelling through time together

Every day of our lives

All we can do is do our best

To relish

This remarkable ride

~♥~

Fasten You to Me | Inspired by Love Songs Collection: Part 4

Konbanwa~

Hope your Sunday has been lovely. I stuffed my face with pasar malam food, so all is well with the world. :D

This post features a song that was my first inspiration for the Inspired by Love Songs collection. It's this obscure indie song that I happened across one fine day, and have loved ever since. The lyrics are simple and poignant, the melody quiet and sweet. 

If I had to choose one
Person to keep from
Falling off the earth to
Stay here with me
I'd hold on to you my
Foot tied to a tree you'd
Bid farewell to falling friends I'd
Fasten you to me

 Pendant of a tree fastened to an asymmetrical chain of green round-faceted crystals and clover links.

 Fasten you to me
Held down by the roots of a tree 

Item Code & Name: 170 Fasten You to Me

Price: RM18.00

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Green Round-Faceted Chinese Crystals, Clover Links, Tree Pendant

Measurements: Approximately 44.5cm (including clasp) + 3.5cm extender chain; Drop = 3.5cm

daintylittletrinkets@gmail.com

With that, I bid you good night.

Let the song below lull you to a peaceful slumber. ♥

Poison and Wine | Inspired by Love Songs Collection: Part 3

Hola!

Hope everyone is having a fun and relaxing Saturday. I certainly am savouring every moment (well, I just woke up. The sleep was divine). What rhymes with divine? Wine! What does wine have to do with anything? Well, it's part of the title of this post! Why do my thought processes work the way that they do? God only knows, man. 

Ok, I shall end that bit of Saturday morning quirkiness and attempt to sound sane for the rest of the post.

We've come to the mid-way point of the Inspired by Love Songs collection. I hope you've been enjoying it so far. This next trinket is inspired by a lovely song that illustrates how love is full of contradictions - Poison and Wine. This is a sweeping, haunting song by The Civil Wars, so please scroll down and listen to it yeah? 

 Jet black helix crystals to represent poison, burgundy pearls and deep purple round-faceted chinese crystals to represent wine. A tinier crystal encased within a round double-twisted ring, with love as the key.

You only know what I want you to
I know everything you don't want me to
Oh your mouth is poison, your mouth is wine
You think your dreams are the same as mine

Oh I don't love you, but I always will

I always will

Item Code & Name: 169 Poison and Wine

Price: RM17.00

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Burgundy Faux Pearls, Deep Purple Round Faceted Chinese Crystals, Jet Black Helix Crystals, Round Double-Twisted Ring, Heart-Shaped Key Charm, Toggle Clasp

Measurements: Approximately 17.5cm (including clasp)

Find out how to order here.

As always, customisation is possible. :)

Go listen to this moving duet by The Civil Wars and lose yourself in the push and pull of the lyrics, the blend of their voices, and the complexity of love:

So She Dances | Inspired by Love Songs Collection: Part 2

A waltz when she walks in the room
She pulls back the hair from her face
She turns to the window to sway in the moonlight
Even her shadow has grace

Oh, this song.

When Josh Groban sings this tale of pining as he watches a lovely lady dance from afar, you can't help but be moved by the romance of it all. I love everything about this song - the melody starts off like one of those old music boxes and each lyric is sung with a quiet, yearning conviction. You are transported to a ballroom with moonlight streaming in through the windows, and all else fades away. *happy sigh*

Loving this song like I do, it's only natural that I made a little trinket dedicated to it. I haven't featured handbag charms in any collections before, so here's a first. Part 2 of the Inspired by Love Songs collection, So She Dances:

 Midnight blue and dark silver pearls to set the scene, as the dancing takes place under the moonlight. 

The other charms and links are inspired by the following lyrics:

She's spinning between constellations and dreams
Her rhythm is my beating heart  
So she dances
In and out of the crowd like a glance
This romance is
From afar calling me silently

If you're wondering, the link in the centre is what I like to call my snowflake/star hybrid charm. Here, it represents a star - that girl who is spinning between constellations and dreams, whose rhythm is your beating heart.

Oh be still my beating heart. If someone ever sang this song to me, I might dissolve into a puddle. But I can safely say that that will never happen as I have two left feet. :p 

Item Code & Name: 168 So She Dances

Price: RM10.00

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Midnight Blue and Dark Silver Faux Pearls, Heart Link, Star Link, Dancer Charm

Email me at daintylittletrinkets@gmail.com if you're interested - if you have a lovely lady in your life to purchase this for, or if you have a sister or friend who loves dancing, or if you yourself love to dance, and would like to carry a memento with you wherever you go.

Now listen to this beautiful song and luxuriate in Josh Groban's soulful, resonating vocals.

Sweet dreams.

Wings | Inspired by Love Songs Collection: Part 1

One of my favourite things about music is that we can all relate to songs in one way or another. When I'm down and in need of some "wallowing", I like to drown myself in a sea of melancholic tunes. It's a cathartic experience.

This first post in the Inspired by Love Songs collection is based on one of my recent favourites - Wings, by Birdy. At the young age of 17, Birdy's voice is lilting and mellifluous, the lyrics wistful and yearning, and the melody soaring and evocative.

Here's a bracelet inspired by this lovely tune.

 A diamond link flanked by wing charms and crystal bicones, ending with an antique silver-plated heart toggle.

Lights go down
In the moment we’re lost and found
I just wanna be by your side
If these wings could fly

The lyrics of this song suggest that the writer is reminiscing about a certain time in his/her life and wishes for time to be suspended in that moment, with that special someone. I deliberately kept the bracelet simple and elegant, to reflect that quality of timelessness.  

Item Code & Name: 167 Wings

Price: RM15.00

Status: [Sold], Available for remakes

Materials: Crystal Bicones, Wing Charms, Diamond Link, Heart Toggle Clasp

Measurements: Approximately 17cm (including clasp)

 Here be the beautiful song. Give it a listen:

If you'd like to purchase this or anything featured on this site, please email me at

daintylittletrinkets@gmail.com

Thank you and good night. :)

♫ ♪ ♬

Inspired By Love Songs - Collection Masterpost

"If music be the food of love, play on."

- Shakespeare

Ah, music. It is perhaps second only to food, in my list of things that I love. I'm sure I speak for a lot of people when I say that music can lift the soul, comfort the weary, express feelings that we can never so eloquently and adequately express. 

With Valentine's just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to marry my love for music with my love for making dainty little trinkets, and make an entire collection that is inspired by songs - by love songs. This collection is by no means only limited to those who are in love. After all, love takes on many forms and can be expressed in many different ways.

It has been so long since my last collection (November!), so I am quite excited to introduce something new.

The songs titles below are all songs that have resonated with me at some point or another, songs with lilting melodies and meaningful lyrics. As I post them over the next week or so, I hope you enjoy the songs (and the accessories) as much as I've enjoyed the songs (and enjoyed handcrafting the accessories)!

Part 1: Wings

Part 2: So She Dances

Part 3: Poison and Wine

Part 4: Fasten You to Me

Part 5: How Long Will I Love You

First post begins on Tuesday. :)

Now - whatever you're feeling at the moment - be it happy, sad, tired or angry (or anything in between), go listen to a favourite song of yours, go listen to something classic, or something new, and things will somehow be better. 

♫ ♥ ♪ ❤ ♬