Rain's Embellishments @ CRAFTALUMA THIS SUNDAY!

Hello One and All!

I just wanted to remind you that I will be at the
Petaluma Craft Mafia's show, CRAFTALUMA,
this Sunday June 29th! At Petaluma Veteran's Hall
(1094 Petaluma Boulevard South, Petaluma CA 94952).
Doors open at NOON. $1.00 admission. Free swag bags to early arrivals!
Raffle tickets are available for a gift drawing!
Please come out and help support Indie Crafters!!!
Please also remember to stop by the ATM to get some ca$h
because that's the most convenient form of payment for vendors.

I'll be revealing brand new pieces for this event!
Be the first to see them!!!
Thank you so much for the support!!!

XOXO!
Lorrain 'Rain'

Rain's Embellishments
http://rainsembellishments.etsy.com
http://rainsembellishments.blogspot.com
rainsembellishments@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/rainsembellishments

A project for my boss - UPDATE!

Last week I blogged about a necklace my boss asked me to make for her. Happily, I received many nice comments about the one I made here and on my Myspace blog. My Sac Craft Mafia sister, Missy asked to see a picture of the necklace I based my replica on. Here it is:

It's uses a lot more chunky chain, and isn't quite as feminine...but is still pretty nifty! (Photo taken from Lucky Magazine.)

A project for my boss

Normally, on Tuesdays (my usual start day each week) I get a phone call from my boss, Esther, to update me on what she wants me to do at the store. To my surprise, she called me about a project instead!

Now to know Esther means knowing that she rarely makes her own jewelry; which is surprising to most people considering she owns two bead stores! Her husband, Dan, makes a considerable amount of jewelry for her. If she needs a quick pair of earrings, she'll pick out some beads and findings and put them in front of one of The Bead Shoppe girls and have them assemble them for her. For special projects, however, she sends them my way!

This project in particular was a necklace she saw in a fashion magazine. It was a multi-strand chain necklace with pearls, crystals, and other adornments. My task was to decipher how this was all pieced together just by a 2" x 3" picture of the necklace on a model! Oh yeah, and Esther wanted me to incorporate her three Tahitian pearls that she had Dan drill for said project! Normally, that wouldn't be that hard for me, but this necklace was intense! I had to figure out which piece went where, and how to make each strand it's particular length.

Here's how it came out:

Front View

Back View

Side View

Whew! It was and undertaking that took me a few days at the shop in between helping customers, and other projects around the store.

I found out later that Esther wanted it for her trip to Paris. Just a little something to walk around town with her girlfriends! She also wore it to the bead show that was just at Cal Expo. Apparently, I'm going to have to teach a class to make it come fall because so many people liked it! I'll keep you posted just in case any are interested!

A special thanks to Miss Hana for modeling for me! ;)