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Through giveaways featuring reader's talents, I have learned to know many sweet and talented artists. One such artist is Lorelei Eurto. I immediately fell in love with her work and am so excited to share it with you this week.
You all deserve something special after our week last week, right?
I am privileged to own one of Lorelei's bracelets. It's lovely, it's unique, and it is sooo comfortable. I love the handcrafted beads and charms she chose and her sense of style as she put it all together, I...Okay. I'll try to stop talking about my bracelet. Let's talk more about Lorelei instead.
Surrounded and inspired by the work of some of the world’s greatest artists while working her day job at an art museum, Lorelei has become a prolific, self-taught jewelry designer. She has been creating handmade beaded and wire jewelry since 2007. Lorelei loves adding unique textural elements to her jewelry. Her designs showcase her love of art beads as well, and her jewelry is fun, practical and easy to wear. She runs a successful online jewelry business and her designs can be seen on her website, in her Etsy shop, her Big Cartel store and on her blog, Inside the Studio. Her work has also been featured in Stringing and BeadStyle magazines.
Would you like to see what Lorelei made especially for this giveaway? Would you? Huh? Huh?
The Giveaway: A specially designed and created charm bracelet for one lucky reader!
This is a mixed media bracelet with a Genuine charm
Ceramic beads- Elaine Ray
Patina chain- MissFickle Media
Vintaj Brass findings
Ceramic beads- Elaine Ray
Patina chain- MissFickle Media
Vintaj Brass findings
Now, for those of you who immediately fell in love with this bracelet (like I did when I first saw it) and can't stand the thought of it not living on your wrist or the wrist of a loved one, Lorelei has made a second one and it is listed in her Etsy shop right now.
To Enter: In order to enter for a chance to win this gorgeous charm bracelet, please visit Lorelei's website, Etsy shop or her Big Cartel store. Browse around then come back here and tell me, in the comments below, which piece you find amazing OR your favorite theme in jewelry. One entry per household, please.
For those of you who've been having trouble commenting, please feel free to email me (thyhand123@gmail.com) your answer with a name I can identify you with and I will post your entry anonymously for you.
For those of you who've been having trouble commenting, please feel free to email me (thyhand123@gmail.com) your answer with a name I can identify you with and I will post your entry anonymously for you.
I will randomly select the winner sometime Friday afternoon.
Thank you, Lorelei!!
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I love, LOVE Lorelei's style!! Her designs have inspired me in my own designs to mix it up a little, to step out of my comfort zone of patterns and symmetry. :-) And this bracelet is no exception, just fabulous! Thanks for doing this giveaway! My favorite theme in jewelry is nature and Vintaj brass combined.
ReplyDeleteWow, this jewelry is stunning! I'm pretty sure I can't pick just one piece, so let me mention a couple. I LOVE the necklace with the colorful beads and the flower material/design pendant (thought I didn't see it for sale anywhere). The necklace in the SOLD section called Graces is beautiful. I would love the Aqua earrings. However, I think b/c of the season, my favorite piece is the bracelet called Falling Leaf - absolutely breathtaking. Carrie B.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE all of Lorelei's work. She works so hard to make sure each piece is unique, has a solid color scheme and great composition of how beads sit near and far from each other. My favorites are always the pieces with wooden beads because they are just so different and earthy. I have one of her wooden necklaces hanging from my computer monitor and it makes me smile every day.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite piece now is called Petalling in her Big Cartel shop :)
Oh my goodness! How can one choose? I love the one on your page with the "G" (my last name starts with a G....
ReplyDeleteI love Honey Bee, Fruit Salad and Elegantly Understated! I have bookmarked her page and intend to buy something when I have saved up some extra spending cash_thanks for sharing her work~
Faith G.
I think the falling leaf bracelet is beautiful, maybe because it is time for fall, or maybe because its my favorite season, and just because it is a beautiful bracelet. I live in new england where the falling leaves are a huge deal its totally the thing to do at this time of year, watch them, play in them, and capture their image. Anywho, this is beautiful work. It would be nice if she made collections, you know necklace bracelet and earrings that go together for fashionably stunted people like me who cant mix and match.
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Jcapraro1@roadrunner.com
I don't think she's made something I didn't like-to tell the truth. I love her ecelectic style and she is always changing things up. I love the Beezle Bub earrings and her new earrings the Elephants and Palm Trees are fun. I would love to win the bracelet.
ReplyDeletethis is a wonderful giveaway.
ReplyDeletei love Lorelei's work,the compositions and flow of the piece's are unique.
it would be difficult to choose just one fav of the current pieces, my list would include:
Owl city bracelet,ceramic flower with leather bracelet, and i love the color combo on elephant and palm tree earrings..
I love her work! It is just stunning and very unique. My favorite piece is the Honey Bee bracelet in her Big Cartel shop.
ReplyDeleteMary N
This is a Wonderful Giveaway! Loreleis Fresh with ideas all of the time! Right now the Special pc for me that Lorelei has would have to be "Raku Nuggets and Acorns" in the Big Cartel Shop. This is a really lovely bracelet you are Giving away..how can you do that...lol jk. Thank you for the chance!
ReplyDeleteWhat a unique design! I love it! I especially love the first necklace in her gallery. I like the mix of colors and the little links of chain! What a great giveaway idea!
ReplyDeleteIt is GREAT! Gonna have to put her on my wise list for Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI find Lorelei's original and creative designs SO inspiring! It's hard to pick just one favorite but I would say the Honey Bee bracelet. I love that it is nature inspired and eclectic at the same time! :)
ReplyDeleteFun stuff! I love the offbeat designs. Not sure, but I think my faves are the Red Hoot necklace (whimsical--it would look great with a t-shirt) and the Raku Nuggets and Acorns earrings. Great giveaway.
ReplyDeleteJodi N.H.
I love love love the Fruit Salad bracelet! Very cool. :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work Lorelei. I Love the Significant bracelet--so eclectic, and the Aqua earrings--just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteCindy
I really like the racu nuggets & acorns earrings. Very unique & beautiful work!
ReplyDeleteI have done entire blog posts about how lorelei has taught me to look at pattern and randomness differently, the most recent being http://fancifuldevices.blogspot.com/2010/08/loreleis-inspirations.html
ReplyDeleteand like many, would have trouble picking a fave. right now, i like 'significant' from her etsy shop, which looks an awful lot like this bracelet!
I love the Paloma Bird earrings on her site. They remind me some gorgeous Mexican furniture some friends have. AND, now that my baby is starting to walk, it will be safe for me to wear earrings soon!
ReplyDeleteI like the honey bee bracelet, too. Nice stuff!
ReplyDeletei love a pair of earrings i saw on her website, #P1016305, but it was definitely hard to choose just 1!
ReplyDeleteaml
My favorite is the Fruit Cocktail Bracelet in her Big Cartel store.
ReplyDeleteI love her harbinger collection-it's so unique and has her signature all over those pieces. Love her colors and asymmetrical designs which have inspired me to be more whimsical in my designs. Love her work!
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful jewelry. I love the earrings called Aqua. So pretty!
ReplyDeleteOh I own quite a few couldn't resist Lorelei pieces. She is a very special designer and also a wonderful person. She inspires me greatly!!!
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I love Lorelei's work! Everything is beautiful - so unique! I especially love her "favorite things" necklace on her website.
ReplyDeleteEMW
Sweet Soire necklace.
ReplyDeleteAunt V.
Love it. Ceramic flower bracelet with leather strap.
ReplyDeleteI love the ceramic flower bracelet in her ETSY shop... it looks like something my daughter would wear :)
ReplyDeleteI love!!! Lorelei's jewelry. It's really inspired me to mix up my own style with different metals and combine unexpected materials.Even though summer pretty much over, I love the Summer Time Lovin bracelet in her big cartel shop.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite theme in jewelry is nature. I like earth tones, natural stones, and baubles that look like sea creatures and leaves.
ReplyDeleteI really love this jewelry line! So different and earthy. I absolutely love the giveaway piece but my other favorite is the Fruit Salad piece on the Big Cartel site. My siister is a homesteader in VT and has a 40th birthday coming up. I just found her gift on Lorelei's website!
ReplyDeleteI like the earrings, but my ears aren't pierced, so I'd have to say a bracelet---any of them.
ReplyDeleteIn the Gallery on the website, there's a necklace in the top row, left corner. It features a Jade Scott pendant, and I admire the way Lorelei has brought out each color of the pendant with beautiful beads that are linked, a look that I love. It's arranged in a random way that leads you around before you realize they're all compatible with the pendant! Oh yes, I do love that bracelet, a generous Giveaway! Thank you! Your canning looks marvelous, I'm way behind in that area.
ReplyDeleteI think all of Lorelei's designs are great. They just make me want to go grab my bead box and design something colorful and fun. If I have to decide on one, today I would say "Owl City". Great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteOh, I LOVE her style! The one pictured above (Significant) or the Fruit Salad bracelet are both my favorites, but it's all gorgeous! I would love to win one and wear it all the time!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the necklace called 'Favorite Things' because I love the fall color palette and the varieties of color, texture and material of the beads. It reminds me of taking a long walk and picking up things and putting them in my pocket, little treasures that I would later add to a string and wear around my neck! Thanks for having the giveaway, I hope I am a winner!
ReplyDeleteHow can one decide, everything is fabulous! My favorites right now are Owl City, Fruit Salad and Your Love is Like a Playground. Great Giveaway, thanks!
ReplyDeleteSince I am a bracelet girl...
ReplyDeleteSummertime lovin is simply lovely.
The name captures the colorful beauty of it's sassy little beads.
This was my first visit to this site and I have to say that what amazing work she has. All of her art is beautiful.
Thanks for doing this.
Oh my goodness, I am in love with almost everything I saw. Awesome work, Lorelei!
ReplyDeleteThe bracelet for the giveaway is by far my favorite from her collection, although the fruitbasket bracelet and "blues" earings are a close second.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your work connecting all of us!
Tara
The Significant Bracelet it my fave!
ReplyDeleterenabeth @ yahoo dot com
I looked at her website and have to say what I like best is the bracelet you're giving away! Very cool stuff.
ReplyDeletedi
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Lorelei! She knows it too!
I like all her earrings and the Owl City bracelet!
Hope I win!!
Cilla
tell your girlfriends from Etsy!
I love the combinations of different materials like metal and clay. Also, the leaf and petal motifs catch my eye.
ReplyDeleteOh my, thank you for the give-away and for introducing me to Lorelei's wonderful jewelry. I enjoy the mixed chunkyness and feminine look. Her Falling Leaf bracelet calls to me :)
ReplyDeleteI really love all of Lorelei's designs.
ReplyDeleteI like the beezle bub earrings in here etsy shop. I have earrings and bracelets that I have bought from Lorelei and enjoy each and every piece I ear and get many compliments.
Kathy
I had never been to Lorelei's site but was struck by the use of different colors and textures and seemingly "everydayness" (I know that's not a real word) of the pieces. It makes me think of casual chic. My favorite piece is the "You are my home" necklace on the first page of her website gallery. It speaks to all that's most important to me and calls up images of the best place in the world...where little hands are the most sophisticated artwork on the walls:-)
ReplyDeleteEvonne H.
I have long admired Lorelei's jewelry and have several pieces of hers. I am most interested in her new collection featuring hand cut tin discs, using them as charms, bead caps, etc. She's so creative!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
I love Lorelei's work! She uses great colors and textures, and somehow makes them all play nicely togehter.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite has to be on her website--there's no name, but the number is p1013643.
Alice
thepetersons13@mchsi.com
I'm pretty sure that her "Significant" bracelet is my favorite. But I love the neutral tones of Owl City, too. Bracelets are such a fun accessory.
ReplyDeletemy mom had a similar bracelet as I was growing up.... her work is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI personally think that her Significant is one of my favorites.
Loved the latest Two Owls so much that I ordered it on the spot. A dear friend in the US will ship it to me in Hong Kong and, maybe I'll be the first to wear a Lorelei original here. Fun! Many thanks, Alison
ReplyDeleteSmoke Rings is my current favorite. Thanks for the give away.
ReplyDeleteVikki
i love the significant bracelet... funky and fun.
ReplyDeletecarmen
I just love Owl City. It is such a fascinating collection of beads. Her artists eye for putting pieces together is to die for!
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