A Chrome Heart: One of a Kind Jewelry

© Chromeheart / Oscura Photography

Here's a sneak peek at some of the new items that were JUST made available in my etsy store!  Okay, I lied a little bit, the snake necklace in the front isn't for sale.  I just wanted to show it off because I lovelovelove the way it came out!  Unfortunately, I only had enough materials for one, and the snake charms are no longer made.

When I say my jewelry is unique/one of a kind, it really is.  I don't like making the same design over and over and over again like I have nothing better to do.  I'll make one for myself and one or two for the store, and then move on to something new.  Also, I tend not to buy jewelry supplies in bulk, with exception of ribbon, chain, things of this nature.  Pendants, special baubles &etc, I don't normally buy more than three of the exact same thing.  So yes, anything you purchase from A Chrome Heart on etsy that is labeled "one of a kind" truly is the only one of its kind!  I don't have the supplies to make another one, even if I wanted to.  Which I don't.  Break the monotony.

I've always made jewelry on an off and on basis, where I'd get really interested in it for a while, then get sidetracked by art, photography and whathaveyou, and pick it up again a few months or a year later, but I never really stuck with it.  Lately, I find myself getting very irritated with jewelry.  I'm a girl with a baaaaaad case of magpie syndrome.  If it's sparkly, I want it!  If it's not sparkly, I don't, unless it's matte black or something, and don't even get me started on plastic costume jewelry.  It defeats the purpose!  More to the point, the jewelry on the shelves in almost every store I walk into is either cheap plastic and base metal crap that I'd be allergic to even if I didn't hate it, or too expensive for me to mentally justify the cost.

Not that I'm much of a "fashionista" by any means.  I like what I like, and if nobody sells things I like at a reasonable cost, I'll break out the pliers and make it myself.