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Friday, February 19, 2010

Gold Jewelry For Sale off of Blog

Golden Crown Necklace
JB-28
$49.00 (SOLD 2-17-10)
27 1/2" total length.

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Asymetrical Gold/Pearl/Watch Necklace
$54.00 (SOLD 2-10-10)
30" total length.  This necklace is very, very cool!

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2 Sided Gorgeous Gold Watches
$54.00 (SOLD 2-17-10)
This necklace is truly gorgeous.  Two sided design gives you two distinct looks.  22" of pearl/chain and another 1 1/2" of focal for a total length of 23 1/2".

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Eiffel Tower Chunky Chain Necklace
$44.00 (Sale price $39.00)
Available
18" of thich gorgeous goldtone chain with an additional 1 1/2" of focal length for an overall 19 1/2".

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Birds in Flight
$44.00 (SOLD 3-3-10)
21" of goldtone chain with an additonal 5" of gorgeous vintage elements.  The filigree vintage piece is 2" x
1 1/2" in size.

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Gold/Pearls/Crystals with Watch Face Necklace
$52.00 (SOLD 2/18/10)
34" to Circle attachment, than another 4" length with circle, charms and watch focal.
There are pearls set into gold tone rhinestone style links around the edge of the watch.

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Pearls and Gold Links Bracelet
$44.00 (SOLD 2/17/10)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

White Wednesdays with Mimi-Toria's

This is my first White Wednesday contribution, so please enjoy these photos of a few of my favorite white things I have in my home and/or have created for my business.

A couple of favorite vintage elements paired together.
A collection of white heart rocks.
As a jewelry designer, vintage is my elements of choice.
Two re purposed items create a lovely display piece for sale at a shop I sell at.
  As a contributor on Junk Market Style site, I am always looking for a cast off to re purpose into something else.  This was sold at the French Flea shop in Anoka, MN.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day to all of my loyal blogging friends and customers.  I so appreciate each one of you.  Thanks for sharing your love, your lives with me through our friendships, comments, purchasing jewelry off my blog, and for just being a special person in a part of my extended family.




Wednesday, February 10, 2010

February Jewelry Selling at the French Flea - Feb. 11-14th

 

Good Morning my blogging friends.  It's a sunny day in Minnesnooowta.  Sunny days happen to be a rare occurence in the winter months in this cloudy state, so I'm loving having the sun shining in on my face as I write this blog post.  I just know it's going to be a good day today.   So this post will be about some of the new jewelry I've created for selling at the French Flea in Anoka, Minnesota.  This shop is an occasional sale store which means its open occasionally.  Yes, only four days a month.  This is the week of the four day sale starting on Thursday the 11th from 10-8 p.m. (Tea tasting and scones served), Friday the 12th from 10-5 p.m., Saturday the 13th from 10-5 p.m. and Sunday the 14th (Valentine's Day) from 12-4 p.m.  Hope to see some of you there. 
These items will be for sale off my blog after the sale so email me at gretchen.schaumann@comcast.net if something interests you.

Chunky Necklace with Eiffel Tower and Gemstones 
10-F40
$59.00 (SOLD 2/13/10)
Front of focal is a vintage glass prism with a wonderful image of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The back of the focal is a mirror, so it is a two sided necklace.
Large barrel shaped carnelians which are semi precious gemstones, are wire wrapped into this piece for duability as well as adding substance to go with the chunky brushed gold chain used in this design.
Such a fun clasp.  A vintage padlock has been used with hand wire wrapped hppk closure.


Gold Filigree Floral Necklace
10-F28
$34.00
(SOLD)
This piece is created with a wonderful vintage floral focal that I found in my searching for unique finds one day.  It is so lovely and detailed.  I wanted to keep it the focal of the piece, so have used it with a vintage gold toned with pearl chain, to keep this flower the center of attention.
 Nice, clean and simple.


Gold Link Chain w/Watch and Calendar Focal
10-F39 
$42.00 (SOLD 3-11-10)
This watch face is stunning on its own, but it is reversible, which is just an added bonus.

The watch face on the previous photo has been adhered to this fun and playful 20 year working calendar.  So fun to use great pieces to create two sided designs.  Versatility and a real conversation piece.
The entire piece shown here, on a simple gold tone linked chain.

There are many more new designs going into the shop today for tomorrows sale, but time only allows to showcase these three new pieces.  Enjoy your day!

A Sweet Post About a Necklace Design From a Happy Customer

Below is the reason I design and create jewelry for a living.  On days like today, when you receive notice of a wonderful blog post about one of your designs and you've made the customer thrilled with their purchase, it really makes what I do worthwhile and enjoyable.  So thank you Candy for your purchase, and thank you for the flattering blog post about that purchase.  Enjoy the read and stop by Candy's blog.  She is not only a fabulous photographer, but has wonderful transformations on her blog as she recreates with others cast offs aka junk. 
I just had to share my little purchase with all of you! Can you tell I am just thrilled?!


Photo taken by Candy of Junk Sophistacates blog.

Candy's blog reads like this:
Wow! Look What I Got!

This necklace was created by jewelry redesigner, Gretchen Schaumann from Mimi-Toria's Designs. According to her website, Gretchen's pieces are created by "using vintage, found treasures and special new elements to design and create beautiful functional art". What do you think? Extraordinary, right?
And the tag "Junker Girl"?! Get outta here! Could this be any more perfect for me? Coming from someone that doesn't spend much money on herself, I am beyond happy with my little gift...to ME, from ME!

Make sure you check out her blog to see what other designs she has available. They are all so unique so you may have a hard decision to make! I can also attest to her integrity and believe she is one of the kindest people I know.

Now let me grab that necklace and put it on! I've got vacuuming to do!

**I haven't forgotten about my dining room either, so that will be posted soon too. :)

As always, take care and keep on junking!

Candy

These are the photos I posted on my blog that Candy purchased the necklace off of.  As you can see her one photo did my necklace more justice than all three of the ones I took.  Too bad Candy lives in Ohio, or I would ask her to barter with me for her photographing my jewelry for my designs.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Jewelry for Sale off of Blog - January - Items 52 - 78

Sorry to bombard you with blog posts, but I'm attempting to use the week-end to get all of my current items available for purchase on line and up on my blog for viewing for potential customers while I have the time this week-end. 
If you are interested in any of these items, just email me at gretchen.schaumann@comcast.net.  I accept checks and than will mail the jewelry to you.  There is a $2.00 shipping charge per item, less if it's less weight and it will come in a box sealed in a bubble wrap envelope for protection.  Hennepin County in Minnesota has a sales tax rate of 7.275% in addition to the base price of jewelry.  Thanks for looking!

  Birds of Nature Necklace
JB - 52
$79.00 (SOLD 1/31/10)
Front of focal
Back of Focal
Entire piece is hand wire wrapped for durability.  Smokey Quartz I used on this piece are large nuggets and are gorgeous.  Vintage gold watch case reads "My Nest" and there are 3 baby blue freshwater pearls to represents eggs in the hand-wire wrapped nest.  This can represent you as the mother, and the babies your children.
Coffee Quartz, Vintage Foreign coin, Faceted Smokey Quartz, Abalone Shell, Vintage Rhinestone found element, Smokey Moonstone and Freshwater Pearls are in this portions of chain.
I have included a lot of photos of this necklace, so that you can see all of the fabulous found elements that make up this design.  It is one of my all time favorites, and just has such a wonderful vintage and time worn patina.  The semi-precious gemstones bead used are a mix of faceted smokey quartz, faceted freshwater pearls, coffee quartz, abalone shell, and smokey moonstone beads.  Then you have a fabulous focal that is finished so that if it flips while you walk it doesn't look ugly.  See more descriptions above that describe more of the details on this awesome necklace.  The chain portion length of this piece is 28" with an additional overall length of 3 1/2" for the focal drop.  The bird focal is 2 1/4" circumference.

Gold Beach Theme Necklace
JB - 53
$59.00 (On SALE $54.00)
Available
Lots of cool stuff is involved in this design.  A pewter look 2" sand dollar is the focal piece of this beauty and has charm dangles falling from it with a seahorse and shell charms.
A shell with gold edging, a vintage brass # tag, a patinaed metal back piece with seahorse and a mother of pearl disk with flying sparrow are all on one side of this design.  This is an assymetrical necklace.
Closeup of the seashell charm and flying sparrow.
Inspire # tag charm, with sand dollar and mother of pearl disk and a fabulous vintage beach mosaic found element piece are on the opposite side.
Gold beach theme chain is 28" long and is a gorgeous vintage chunky style of chain.  The awesome charms dangle on the sides and are assymetrical in nature, and the focal is just shy of 2".  See above notations for more descriptions about the charm portion of this piece.

Shift Key Necklace
JB-54
$69.00 (SOLD 2/13/10)
This is a really cool necklace. It is 25" length of chunky silver filigree chain with a lot going on. The shift key element is 2" and with the dangle and shift key elements it is 6" inches from the 25" chain portion.
Truly for a woman that has confidence and yet wears it with grace. I have removed the key at the bottom and it was replaced with another wonderful treasure, a gorgeous vintage religious medal. Love the tassle on this, the shift key and the fun elements and charms up the sides which make this design a truly one-of-a-kind creation.

Mother of Pearl Paris Bracelet
JB - 55
$34.00 
(NOT AVAILABLE CURRENTLY)
7" bracelet has a vintage silver tone base with 9 mother of pearl buttons with 2 crowns and "PARIS" spelled out across the mother of pearl buttons.  Another one-of-a-kind design by Mimi-Toria's.

Elegant Gold Cuff Style Bracelet
JB - 56
$42.00 (SOLD 1/31/10)
This cuff style bracelet measures 7 1/2" around and the top main piece of metal with the rhinestones set into it measures 2 3/8" wide.  Would fit someone that has a wide top wrist, but yet fits a 7 1/2" total wrist.  The holes on the main piece were drilled and than all vintage elements were wire wrapped with 14 kt gold filled wire to create this elegant bracelet.    Lots of sparkle on this piece, which wasn't captured very well in these photos.

Cash Register Tag Ball Chain Necklaces

.07 Cash Tag Necklace
JB - 57
$32.00 (SOLD)
29" antiqued gold ball chain with .07, vintage key and sand dollar charm.]
Snip it with a scissor to shorten the chain if you want it shorter.

.70 Cash Tag Necklace
JB - 58
$32.00 (SOLD)
30" silvertone ball chain with .70, vintage rhinestone element and cow girl boot charm.
 .04 Cash Tag Necklace
JB - 59
$32.00 (SOLD)
29" silvertone ball chain with .04, money and cow girl boot charms.

.08 Cash Tag Necklace
JB - 60
$32.00 (SOLD)
29" silvertone ball chain with .08, vintage pearls, 1st ribbon and cow girl boot charm.


.60 Cash Tag Necklace
JB - 61
$32.00 (SOLD)
30" silvertone ball chain with .60, vintage pearl, vintage black bead and cow girl boot charm.


Earrings

JB - 62
$15.00 (were $18.00)
(SOLD)
Sterling Silver European wires with Smokey Quartz gemstone facets with crown charms.

JB - 63

    $15.00 (were $18.00)
(SOLD)
                 
Sterling Silver European wires with Smokey Quartz gemstone facets with crown charms.

JB - 64
$15.00 (was $18.00)
(SOLD)
Sterling Silver European wires with Smokey Quartz gemstone facets  and white freshwater pearls with crown charms.

JB - 65
$16.00 (was $18.00)
(SOLD)
Sterling Silver European wires with clear crystal links connected to "Dream" disks.

   JB - 66
$16.00 (was $18.00)
(SOLD)
Sterling Silver European wires with clear round AB vintage crystal beads connected to "Dream" disks.

   JB - 67
$16.00 (was $18.00)
(SOLD)
Sterling Silver European wires with clear round  bulls eye AB vintage crystal beads connected to "Dream" disks.


  JB - 68
$15.00

(SOLD)
Stainless steel earwires with vintage faux pearls and clear AB Swarovski crystals.

JB -69
$16.00 (SOLD 2-11-10)
Sterling Silver European wires with gorgeous vintage Black Diamond large AB Swarovski crystals, vintage rhinestone rondelles, and vintage faux glass pearls.

  JB - 70
$18.00
(SOLD)
Sterling Silver lever back ear wires with gorgeous vintage Black Diamond large AB Swarovski crystals,  and vintage faux glass pearls.

JB - 71
$18.00 (SOLD 2-1-10)
Sterling Silver lever backs with Jet Black vintage glass beads and Bali silver accents.

JB - 72
$18.00
(SOLD)
Antiqued Sterling Silver lever backs with unique vintage Clear Cut Crystal beads.

JB - 73
$18.00
(SOLD)
Gorgeous all copper sparrow in flight earrings.

JB - 74
$16.00 (was $18.00)
(SOLD)
Antique gold tone European wire earrings with vintage beads and bird charm dangles.

JB -75
$16.00 (was $18.00)
(SOLD)
Antique gold tone European wire earrings with gemstone beads and round bird charm dangles.

JB - 76
$16.00 (was $18.00)
(SOLD)
Antique gold tone European wire earrings with vintage pearls and Fleur-d-leis charm dangles

JB - 77
$18.00 (SOLD 1/31/10)
14 k.t. gold filled European earwires wth vintage gold rhinestone disco balls.

JB - 78
$16.00 (SOLD 2-1-10)
  14 kt. gold filled European earwires with vintage faux glass pearls, vintage bead caps and silk tied pieces.

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