Exciting media news and underrated life

Looking back I have noticed that I did not post much on July but I just want all of you know that I have been very active in the DIY market. July was very busy.

Since July 1st, I have been working closer with my Canadian customer, John Bead Corporation and I am their Product Development and Creative Manager...lots to learn and lots to deliver. 

No, I am not moving to Canada but I will be traveling to Toronto more often form now on and my function will require lots of my time as a designer and a man of vision. 

I am still filling up my functions as a Create Your Style Ambassador and also I am still a member of the Beadalon designer team.

The September issue of Bead Style magazine is already available and I am featured twice in it.

First: It brings a project designed by me of a pair of earrings...(picture of the page below) showcasing  beautiful Czech glass donut beads (roundels) with metallic inside coat and again I placed the bead cap on top of it and wrapped the head in a different way so people can see both...the metallic coat and the details of the bead cap itself. There is a variation that's equally cute...for those of you who knows me, those earrings are wild for me...delicate, demure and subtle...places that I don't visited that often.

It's worthy to check that out...easy, breezy and fun to make it. 

 Little more of media news: 

The second cool thing is that one of the new ad campaign of Beadalon showcases a set I designed for Artistic Wire using  black wire mesh...I actually designed this necklace at the Beadalon's headquarters here in Pennsylvania and we did at same time a video of me doing it..for the first time ever. of course, I had spent some time the day before working on the concept of piece...it was cool.

I love the sleek , black and grape mood of the advertise...very modern although the concept itself of using a fashion sketch or outer lines have been used by the high end jewelry industry for many years...it's fresh for Beadalon and it brings the designs to a very urban and contemporary vibe. I like it!

Image above from Beadalon/Artistic Wire advertise
Copyright 2012 - Wire and Cable Specialties



Two first images on this post are excerpts from September 2012 issue of Bead Style magazine.
Copyright 2012 - Kalmbach Publishing Company



And remember:

It doesn't matter how much underrated some of your favorite beads are

YOU CAN always

SOMETHING UNIQUE !


XoXo!
Beijos!
Bacione!

"Modern Expressions" featured on UK magazine

I am flabbergasted by the fact that this blog is featured on the July issue of British arts and crafts magazine "Make Jewellery" as the blog of the month. 

It's very empowering to get this kind of recognition because I don;t do as much as I should to make this space a strong virtual destination but this is definitely a prof that I have been doing something right.

Thank you so much all the staff of "Make Jewellery" for all the fantabulous™quotes about this space, the gracious plug on my book and for citing my making jewelry skills on such  high level.

I look forward to work together on a near future.

Muito Obrigado!

Thank you!

Flashes form JTV workshops 2

I am making the "Mission Impossible" series now...lol

Here are few more flashes of my fabulous and happy ladies creating their own jewelry guided by me...yes, I am a jewelry making guide.

I don't consider myself a teacher. 

Her positive attitude and smile makes me happy... necklace looks gorgeous and very sensuous on her neckline.

This lady was fabulous as well and the color of her blouse coordinated nicely with the necklace.

Another happy group...I have to mention that the charismatic lady on black shirt on the right had some exquisite jewelry on each dat of the workshops...from high end rock to unique necklaces, lucite  earrings and exquisite vintage rings...um luuuxo! That means in Portuguese: Very luxurious!

OMG! another fabulous group- the young lady on the left has been designing and selling jewelry for year and half...I have to watch out because the competition is getting strongrrrr!

These ladies were juts phenomenal...we had so much fun laughing our asses off...my classes provided a very laid back environment and I like to keep it like that. 

Nothing military-like because Art needs to provide winds so people can be eager to fly and take the sky on their own.

Thanks you so much ladies to sign for my classes. 

Thanks Jewelry Television and Jewel School™ for making me part of your debut event.

Special thanks to Beadalon ®, John Bead Corporation and Swarovski Elements® for providing me the possibility of creating beauty through such innovative products.

Flashes from JTV Workshops I

I was invited to teach at the new educational building owned by Jewelry Television located right next to their headquarters in Knoxville, TN two weeks ago.

My classes weren't full but all the ladies who signed for my classes were pretty happy and were able to leave with a finished piece designed by me.

You can see below some of the ladies working on their pieces and wearing it afterwards.

I did provide enough components so they could make matching earrings for both necklaces.

An overview of my set up just waiting for the ladies to pick their place.

One of the ladies filling up channels of a jewelry making component designed by Katie Hacker that mirrors all the sparkles of crystal beads...on this case Swarovski Elements round crystal dorado 2xx...of course!

The ladies modeling their latest creations. Airy, soft, light and sophisticated.

Reinventing myself

Hello my people!

This is the latest version of the necklace I will be teaching this week at the headquarters of Jewelry Television in Knoxville, TN during the Jewel School Summer Workshops.

I kept the same design lines but I had to update some of the components to bring to my students the latest Swarovski Elements crystal jade pearls and the intriguing beauty of those sea green ceramic beads.

Components highlighted are : 

* Large Czech glass donuts, hematite toggle and leaf crimp ends by John Bead - hello, Toronnnno!

* Wrappers™, white bumpers™, 49 strands beading wire and kidney ear wires by Beadalon and Artistic Wire®.

If you signed to my class expect to have a great time making this beauty above.
See you soon!


Design by Fernando Dasilva
Copyright© 2012

Men Jewelry expertise

The July issue of UK arts and crafts and fashion magazine Make Jewellery features a nice spread on  men jewelry through the eyes of a few designers. The spread highlights tips from jewelry experts on how to design for guys. Tips are focused on media, techniques, fashion and wearability. 

The spread opens with few tips under my signature style and you can check that out below. The whole issue is great and you must have your own.

  

The cover above shows a nice color palette and a quite impressive necklace that screams summer glam.

Above is the page with my tips when you're designing for guys. Few of my samples and a seriously handsome daddy ginger type wearing sexy trendy bracelets. Next time, I want to make sure he's 

wearing accessories by Fernando....lol

Bracelets featuring red and yellow tiger's eye, hypersthene, frosted black onyx, ceramic beads by Swarovski, colored leather and stainless steel. All designs by Fernando Dasilva © 2012.

A close up look on  a pyrite and 14 k yellow gold spacers, and stainless steel pendants. Rosary style necklace featuring a removable focal element. All designs by Fernando Dasilva © 2012 

A Swarovski crystal glass pearl within a round wrapper by Artistic Wire is the center of stainless steel chain. Hypersthene beads by John Bead enhances stainless steel pre made links...a braided leather bracelet

on shades of blue. All designs by Fernando Dasilva.

Fernando Dasilva - Copyright © 2012.

My "Love" bracelet featured on Bead Style

Hello, my friends!

I've got two good news to share with you, my lovely, fabulous and vitaminado reader.

I am featured on another issue of Bead Style magazine. The July issue (hitting the stands on June 5th)  features a bracelet and twisted and exclusive version of my unique design form my book "Modern Expressions". 

I am excited about having some of my unusual designs getting lots of exposure.

Thanks to Bead Style again. This is awesome!

The latest cover is multilayerd and multicolored...a vey nice color pallete.

Above is a design freated by me for John Bead Corporation featuring components from different lines carried by the company that's been in business since 1954. All metallic beads and bails are made by Tierra Cast, dazzling ruby color crystal wide briolettes by Swarovski Elements and "love" charm and snake chain form their sterling silver collection. This bracelet is very easy to make it so you can make your own version and color combination anytime...anywhere.

The necklace above is my "Spatial spheres" designed originally for "Modern Expressions". A more seductive color palette, a change towards the back and Montana blue modular and purple vevet helix beads from the Swarovski Elements assortment.

According to my friend Christianefrom JTV this necklace  "...It's very atomic age..."

Luuuuuuuuv it!

When fabulous tools don't do what you expect them to do

I spent more than an hour of my morning trying to embellish this fabulous brass cuff I bought 3 years ago.

I was working on a sample so I could submit for CYS class in Tucson next year. On my plans: covering with fish leather, adding cup chain, hf flat backs, two shell stones and etc. 

Unfortunately, it didn't go the way I wanted simply because the hole punching and riveting tools I have do not work on this project. seriously...I get frustrating when some people try t convince simple mortals that certain jewelry making techniques are very easy, very basic...here is the thing: I am leaving out the brands of those tools so people do not feel like I am reviewing those products because that's is not what I am doing. 

1st: punch pliers...fabulous idea and great tool but only if you are working with metal blanks (and I am not talking about large blanks...average size blanks) just because cuffs that are 2 to 3 inches wide in the middle section would not be punched because it can't reach it...duhhhh! Not so fabulous tool for me at the end....

2nd: twisting hole punch tool and riveting system...on 2009 I had already used one of these tools  in a project I designed for my book "modern expressions" so I think it's a cool concept and this one had riveting head on the opposite side...how great is that?! nooope! Did not work at all for my cuff either because it can't reach the right place in order to rivet closed settings in lace...so I tried to change my concept and place them near to the edge as possible of my cuff because I could add several things between the two settings but again, I was wronnnng!

frustration, frustration and time wasted....

Unless you are Sandy Lupo, Kim St Jean or Candie Cooper, do not think that any mortal can do certain metal techniques without a wider array of cards under their sleeves.

As far as my cuff, I will get back on that design with the help of a metal smith who can use old fashion techniques from the real jewelry world and help my design become reality.

Both tools mentioned here are good for very basic hole punching design needs,but still you got to adapt the media you are working with to those tools - if you can do that fabulous! As far as riveting...practice a lot on cheap metals before you do your final design...it's tricky and requires lots of patience what sometimes I personally don't have it. 

Not mentioning that the sizes of rivets widely available in the market most of the time do not fill the needs of its applications...get ready to buy all sizes of head available so you can switch back and forth as may times as you design calls for.

Good luck!

PS. I do have a fabulous drill press machine and my friend Sandy Lupo already told me that that's the baby I need to work on this design...serious stuff! I was trying to make it work with a more light weight and casual tool so sometimes we do need complexity in life.

Modern Expressions hits New Jersey Bead Society

Good Morning, my friends!

Later this evening, I will be at the New Jersey Bead Society to assist Wyatt White on his presentation of the new Beadalon catalog at their monthly meeting. parallel to the main event I will be promoting my book "Modern Expressions" to the ladies, that mean I will be selling, signing copies and displaying some of the jewelry within the book.

But the best of all, we will rubbing shoulders with my friend and fellow Create Your Style ambassador Sandy Lupo.

I will post pictures here over the weekend.

Have a fabulous day!

" Modern Expressions" brings jewelry making, fashion tips and lots of Brazilian flair to the reader.

From casual chic to the red carpet you will find a little bit of everything possible style.

Illustrations by Vladimir Alvarez
Designs by Fernando Dasilva for "Modern Expressions"
Published by FW Media.
 Copyright  © 2010

Seeking Susan Desperately

Last August, Beadalon and I promoted my book at their booth during the Bead Fest Show and we picked a winner for a signed copy of my book and a kit for one of the projects within.

Unfortunately, I lost the winner's address.

Now, I am " seeking Susan desperately ".

Susan, if you are still around please contact me so I can ship your prize to you.

I am sorry!

Time flies and I got caught with so many stuff that I ended up forgetting about this matter. Your prize is here. Please email me your address so I can get that in the mail for you.  

f_dasilva@comcast.net

Thanks!

Fernando Dasilva

Mother's Day quick giveaway winner

Thank you Maria Soto and "Unknown" for participating on my quick giveaway...I appreciated both of your comments on my previous post featuring my selection of the best dressed celebrities at the Met gala 2012.

The winner is the "Unknown" ...please send me a private message to f_dasilva@comcast.net with your t-shirt size and your address so I can ship you your prize.

BTW, the prize is a signed copy of my book "Modern Expressions", a black t-shirt with the title of the book crystallized by Swarovski Elements and a small bag with jewelry components picked by me.

I had a very small turned out but as I have learned as the years passed, quality is what matters.

Thanks again and keep reading because I will be running other giveaways, soon.

Truly yours,

Fernando.

My favorites at the Met Gala 2012

Hello everybody!

I watched the red carpet event at the Metropolitan's website and here are images that belongs to W Magazine of my favorite looks - because sometimes the dress is gorgeous but the attitude is awful, and vice versa.

Giselle Bundchen - extremely sensuous and slightly sexy - regal beauty.

Tom Brady showing all the love to his beauty. he looks beyond gorgeous...sorry Manning , there is no other as handsome as Mr. Brady.

Vibrant yellow against the red carpet is great. Some Art Deco lines and the Cartier necklace is to die for...somehow she made both work together very well...one of my favorite of the night.

Diane V Furstenberg chiqueeeeeeeeerrima - this lady knows how to do prints and the jewelry is amazing...wonder if is DVF for HStern...it might be. 

I loved this over the top fringe almost French burlesque chic dress paired with the statement necklace....that btw she was one of the few who brought jewelry to The Met dinner as a focal element of her look. Bravissima! Chic, Chic, Chic!

Mr. Tom Ford the epitome of class and elegance with his muse wearing such exotic creation...its very Upper East Side Manhattan.

Kate Blanchet is simplesmennnnnnntch, that means, simply the regal amongst the regals...dress is amazing and her posture and marble skin is like the moonlight. Ultra chic!

Loved the way "see through" was done on this dress...this gotta be Dior or Givenchy. I think is Dior.

She can wear nest year or 10 years form now and it will still make a statement. Tres chic!

Black and dramatic...but her attitude is what makes the dress stand out..the girl with dragon tatoo over the top. Maravilhosa! Escandalo de lindo! Wonderful and all of the good stuff! lol

Tim Tebow looks incredibly handsome - I am speechless by the rays of light coming from  those blue eyes.  Helllo!

Loved the all gold snake skin dress..chic, young and she is right on. Loved the entire look. She is very chic!

Brazilian model Camille Bell - maravilhoooooza!

Emilio Pucci dress...loved the colors and the 60's psychedelic vibe.

Anna Wintour was one of the first ones I saw it on the red carpet. She was delightful nice and her look was astonishing. I loved the ivory/white/gold combo.

Images excerpted from W Magazine website.

My style on Bead Style

After taking a pause on submitting designs for arts and crafts magazines, I've decided to come back to the printed media to bring my work to the main stream. It was a wise decision because I was thrilled when I got informed that my necklace made the cover of Bead Style magazine.  The May issue has been out since beginning of April. I see that as an award to have my design selected based on a fresh approach on how to turn hidden components into the main element of a design. Thanks Bead Style and in special to Cathy Jakicic  who had selected some of my designs for upcoming issues, as well. 

My necklace designed last October exclusively for John Bead Corporation to be featured on JTV/Jewel School during a special sales event of amazing Czech glass kits of beads was brought back to the spotlight by Bead Style...another chance to highlight my design work and the beauty of Czech glass donut beads seen from a different angle.

My project was very well written and dissected by Naomi Fujimoto, editor and also jewelry designer - love the colors picked to be used next to the photos and text.

This picture shows the entire piece and all the elements working together - I worked on pretyy much 3 shades of colors...blue, greens and silver - it's almost monocromatic but in different hues. Green gold faux pearls do the trick next to sterling silver toggle.

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Call me crazy... but for some reason I think that my necklace on the previous picture reminded me of these  ancient ship...I don't know... the whole overall shape...the outerline is similar...Am I crazy!?!

On the last page, a couple of options for earrings and a second necklace with similar elements used on a different way - pearls, glass donuts and faux suede....circles of pearls rolling freely on somebody's neck. lol

Last but not least, another designs created exclusively for John Bead is featured on the galllery section...delicate, demure and subtle - usually places that my design work do not vist at all.

I painted filigree connectors with gilder's paste, added silk thread, crystals and used a similar style of toggle twice...up front and in the back. The other 2 designs on the page are equaly delicate and fresh...Spring is in the air. I loved the coral necklace on top right of the page.

Images of jewelry belong to Bead Style magazine - May issue 2012

All copyrights protected by law.

* image aquired online

Swimming on the wildside

It was about June of 2011 when Nature Beads brought a new exciting and exotic kind of product into the American market - fish leather. It took me certain time to experiment with it and I waited for the right time to spread my Midas touch to it's surface. 

I created a necklace for the 2012 Bead Trends panel hosted by Katie Hacker at CHA Winter Show, and right after I started working on some bracelets but I was waiting for the new applicator tool by Swarovski to use with it.

It's still not finished all the way I wanted because some products just need do require a more mechanical method to achieve its full potential. 

On these bracelets I applied the techniques I could to get the look I wanted. This leather is soft, comes in a wide range of colors and it can be used to cover metal blanks, acrylic beads and etc.

All bracelets bedazzled with Swarovski Elements hot fix flat backs and sew-on fancy stones.

Swarovski applicator tool for jeans buttons, snaps and more and more and more - the best tool available for such kind of application. Manual, very friendly usage, light weight  and well designed to serve its purposed.

You must have one...it will open many design possibilities.

Photos and designs by Fernando Dasilva.

Copyright  © 2012.