Happy New Year!!

It was a great Holiday Season for me and I made some beautiful custom orders during the Holidays. After a bad computer crash, I'm slowing restoring my photos of these orders and I'll be uploading them over the next few weeks. Please contact me if you have any questions regarding these items.

This is my simple oval tile bracelet with wire-wrapped black onyz beads.

Two large square photo tiles attached to the toggle of a pearl wire-wrapped bracelet.

Cream and white circle tiles accent this pearl wire-wrapped bracelet.

More Photos coming soon!!

New Wire-Wrapped Bracelet Designs

After coming back from Hawaii, I got some beautiful pearls and have had a great time using them in some new bracelet designs. The first one features mult-color nugget shaped pearls that glow with lots of neat colors and is closed with a toggle shaped clasp. You can dangle up to two charms off of the clasp.


This next bracelet is similar, but with cream-colored freshwater pearls and a two-tone tile dangling off of the clasp.

These bracelets have amethyst and lapis beads wire-wrapped throughout the chain to give it just a little something extra.

All of these items are listed on my website, or contact me with any questions.

New Necklace Designs

Well, it's been a while since I've had a chance to add some new items to my website. Here are some of my new jewelry items. First, are a few of my new necklace creations:

Front Toggle Sterling Necklace with Photo Tile

This necklace was created for a customer's special request. It features the popular toggle style clasp in front.

Large Sterling Oval Charm with Freshwater Pearls and Swarovski Crystals

I really have learned a lot from the many craft shows that I've attended and through the many emails that I receive. Many of the comments are looking for charms that will fit more then one child. This sterling charm is much larger then my oval or square charms and perfect for up to 3-4 people although only one is shown in the above photo. The above necklace was a custom order for Stacey who is launching her photography studio in the New York area. Once she launches her website, I'll post her information for those of you out on the East coast.

This large square tile necklace is also well suited for more then one child and measures almost 3/4 inch square. I've made many of these accented with garnets or amethyst and people love this larger square tile which is double-sided, so you can showcase two photos.

My double-dangle necklace still is one of my more popular necklaces and I created this one with a new tile shape - oval for longer, vertical photos.

After showing this necklace at a local craft fair, I've had many, many orders for it. This delicate necklace features swarovski pearls and dangles the charm from the bottom pearl. It's available with garnets or any of my other semi-precious stones as well.

Merging Photos

When you have more then one child, sometimes it's hard to get them all together, happy and smiling. As my photo editing skills increased, I began to merge photos for several people who were not able to get a great photo of their kids together.

The photo below is merged from the two photos below it. This process does not work for all photos. Your photos need to be sharp, well lit and of a high resolution. If you have photos that you'd like me to try to merge, please feel free to contact me.

Double Dangle Necklace

Double Dangle Necklace - August 2007

One of my biggest issues was how would I be able to attractively display 2 or 3 tiles in one necklace. This gave birth to one of my most popular necklaces, the Double Dangle. I started with a lariat design, but it was rather fussy to keep tied, so one customer asked me to make it a permanent lariat with a clasp. I've made many versions of this. I've had many creative requests. I used either the square or circle tiles. I've shown many of the different ones that I have made below, including two with my two-tone tiles!! I will be making several new necklaces in January showing 3 charm designs!!

Custom Designs

I've been wanting to update my blogspot so that I could post many of the custom designs that I have created. Having started my website only 3 months ago, I was overwhelmed by the compliments and orders from so many people. I tried to take as many photos as I could of the many jewelry items that I made. Here are several of the unique designs that I created with the help of many of my customers.

This was a birthday gift for one of my best friends. It's a real unique design with the double strand of chain and wrapped pearls. The oval clay tile is a large size made to look like a brooch. I made this necklace extra long, about 22 inches to go on the outside of shirts. I'll be uploading a photo of it on since that's how it looks best!!


These next two necklaces were custom orders using double link charms that are usually used for bracelets. I used small pearls in between the charms to finish off the look.

This bracelet has really increased in popularity and looks really beautiful in person. This custom order featured pearls as well in between and 5 oval charms.

One customer was interested in a large square tile, the size of my custom tile key chains. I designed this for her and she was thrilled!! The tile is white in the center and cream around the edges.

These Clay tile keychains were a huge hit and I sold over 30 of them.

I made several photo ornaments as Christmas gifts. I didn't sell them on my website, but am planning on it for next year. Look for several designs and shapes!!



The large oval tile necklace was great for larger families. I had several orders including this first one which features assymetrical swarovski pearls!!


This bottom one features faceted garnets with swarovski rondells.

I am real open to any suggestions and can work with you on your design. Just email me if you have a question:

charmingmemories@comcast.net

Thanks, Aileen

Bracelets - Sterling Silver

After selling several necklaces, I had requests for bracelets from many people. I initially made two types of bracelets, all sterling silver with square and oval charms, which are shown below. They are accented with either all sterling silver beads, garnets or amethyst. I've made the bracelets with up to 7 charms.

I then added to my collection a clay version of the above charm bracelet using photo tiles.

One of my tougher challenges was to create an attractive and simple bracelet using the oval tiles and sterling chain. I used a simple chain and accented the charm with sterling or garnets for a simple and beautiful look.

Here's my version of a scrapbook of photos in a bracelet form. This bracelet is approximately 8.5 inches in length and is double-sided. I love having several photos to show off in this style.