I always love jewelries, it has been my passion since I was a little girl... I used to safe some amount of my money to buy jewelries... I love to collect them and wear them... It feels weird to go out without using jewelries... :p
I made my first jewelry when I was about 21 years old... (I'm 26 now)
I just go googling and found a multiply site which sell some materials to make accessories, such as stones, beads, embellishments, and much more... On that moment I feel so excited... I finally tried to shop online...
I was so happy when I made them... First I just made them for my self... then I started selling some to my friends or families... :)
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| One of my First Handmade Jewelry |
In my College days, I found out that there's a jewelry class... I assigned to the class and found out the joy of metalsmithing jewelries... Even though I only have 2 projects in one semester (about 6 months) I really love it... :) and continued taking jewelry second class on the next semester... (unfortunately can't find my handmade pendant, will post them here when I found it)
Unfortunately, many things happened and I start to put aside jewelries... I got my cumlaude bachelor degree in Art and Design Faculty, I went freelance working as a designer, I got married, and have a daughter, and so on...
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| One of my freelance work, a complete company profile for PT. CX Waterpark, Indonesia |
On September 2011 I found a wire jewelry book on one of my favourite book store, I bought them and tried to practice them, simple wiring... Some are locals while others are made by international artist...
On October 2011, I started peeking again the multiply sites, and I found another multiply website about wire jewelry... I met my first wire jewelry tutor and had a workshop with her... :) (thank you Dahliani) and I made my first cabochon wire jewelry using the coiling, netting and waving... :D
My Cabochon pendant before the workshop... So messy
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| My first netting pendant, thank you so much sis Dahliani :) |
Since then I tried to practice more and more often... and I met many people, another jewelry artisans... (Thanks God for leading me to them)
I began to grow interest for beading too, and finally try to make my first cabochon embroidery in Feb 2012 with the help of Cabochon embroidery book (Author Jauhara, thank you mb Jau)... Then finally found some proper way to beading (thank to mb Rika) and love them so much...
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| My first cabochon embroidery |
Until now, I still love wiring and beading... I met lots and lots of wonderful people through them... :)
I just had my 1st exhibition in December 2012 and it was a great experience...
More are coming in March 2013 and INACRAFT April 2013, can't wait :)
See more of my collection at my facebook page:
www.facebook.com/cherryevejewelry
Thank you~
Jane Pranata <3
