The love flute

I made these flute during my gemming class. :) strassing anything made of glass is my least Favourite for I once broke several of them before.

Anna Sui event

What a wonderful July. So happy I was invited by Anna Sui to host a gemming workshop for their new eye shadow collection press release event. Really so happy. Saw quite a few famous blogger and make up artist on that day.

I am very satisfied with the result for I got lots of compliment about my display setting and my work. I keep hearing wow so pretty! Gorgeous.
I am so glad my hard wok paid off.

Tv shooting. So excited. So nervous

Am so happy that i was invited by now tv as a guest sharing sth about bling.

Long time no see!

Wow

I havent updated my blog for ages. How are you guys? As usually I have been very buy tho summer is a quiet season for online sale for I am currently working for Anna Sui , to organize a gemming workshop for around 40 press. Wow I was screaming when I read the e-mail from the Anna Sui PR. I couldn't believe this is real!!! Since the date of event is approaching.. I have been busy with the preparation. With reference of Candy corner , which is common in Western style wedding , I decided to make my Bling corner just all the macaroon, sweets, cupcake will be replaced by Different color of crystals or whatever accessories related, accompanying with lots of my work of Strass.

When talking about macron Recently I fall in love with the Judith Leiber's macaroon coin bag strass with Swarovski crystals. Sadly I couldn't afford one But I think I can recreate sth similar inspired by these. So cute the coin bag , isnt it/? :)

A customer recently asked me , do you know most of the louboutin you strass is FAKE? I said YES of course I know that But SO WHAT? WHO CARES!! ok maybe just I am don't care but hoebnstly. designer  brands or whoever name is NEVER my concern when I do my work. Not everybody can affoard such an expernsive shoe right? One thing ironic is that, I do better strassing than the authentic one. Why I cant be so confident in saying so? Coz the images say so. As many of you may not know, most of the strass shoe o LOouboutin, Gucci , GL or whatever, is not really "HANDMADE" I say not really becoz  partially it is handmade, but mostly they use a hot fix applicator to  apply the stone of the cloth/ leather because they making the shoe.then they make the shoe with cloth which already with lots of crystals on it. This is proven by the existence of some weird looking crystals, these crystals are divided / chopped in half / broken. And there is lots of weird gap and unevenness of the strassing.  It's even too bad that the manufacturer not even remove those broken crystals on the shoes and not regard this as problem concerning the quality a lot. If I am paying so much for a shoe, I am expecting some  much better strassing instead of merely buying a BRAND!Same situation also can be seen on Chanel. I cant stand the GAP!! really! If I am paying 10K USD for a handbag, why don't I deserve a fine leather bag with good craftsmanship- strassing that creating no gap totally seamless surface and sparky as hell. I don't want to pay a fortune merely for the name CHANEL. Given the bag is not-too-good or even UGLY, the famous CC , the name itself doesn't give the bag any highlight at all,  in my opinion. 

CANT YOU See THE GAP? 

Annoying

Well. where should I begin..   I know I am from Hong Kong, so my work can be easily confused with those produced by China factory , especially the shoe I made as well as my bamboo Hoops. Being annoyed by those misconception, I decided to clarify everything here, and explain the reason why my work is much different, more importantly, much better. 

First please look at this Hello Kitty iphone case from a US site, it is selling at appx $190.For sure this is a phone case  MADE IN CHINA, mass production of factory, tho handmade but lost the meaning of handmade as all handmade goods are supposed to be delicate, otherwise whats the point of using man hand instead of machine. the only reason is that hands can do work which machine cannot!!! The case is surely  made with  the China crystal. Here we don't talk about the quality of the crystals but later. I wanna bring your attention to the craftsmanship. What do you think about the strassing? Don't you see there is lots of space between? You see the gap?it looks like they are using crystals that are too big to cut cost. And there is hardly any outline of neatness of crystals, even the kitty face is kinda weird when you compare its face to the ORIGINAL SANRIO one?  TI never meant to attack my competitor  but I just want to state why it does not worth $190 with evidence. 

Below is a similar hello Kitty 3D iphone case made by me. Tell the difference? I wouldn't say I make it super good like no other but at least the crystal placed in an even way and make a seamless surface!  I am very confident to say that  the Kitty face detail look much nicer and more accurate. It doesn't look like any Replica alike products.  I know some china factory which produce those cheap looking phone case. Indeed I once want to set up my workshop there but I didn't as I do not wanna make any mass produced cheap looking bling.  Of course, those factory produced bling have a much competitive price than mine,  which I can never offer. And they are produced in a much more effective manner than me. But please understand that all quality and delicate goods take time , man made goods is supposed to be time consuming to create.   Just like judith leiber's clutch  which are definitely pieces of art, and we will never see such goods produced in China factory , sloppy mass production way. 

Apart from the phone case, please also look at the bamboo Hoop earrings. Above is  a pair that selling on a US site at $40. Again, I can confirm that this is imported from China factory. Why? Cant you see how messy the crystals? Lots of gaps, and super uneven.  The strassing of the hoops is so sloppy that I'm baffled to think people actually pay for this, Tho this only costs $40. There doesnt seem to be any sort of outline pattern for neatness.

And these are made by me:  

  Your thought please?  please do not get me wrong dat I am not saying that I am the top quality and sth super special. No i never meant to. I Just try to explain  how my work is different than those found on Alibaba or iOFFER. I can guarantee you that all my goods are made with good craftsmanship, seamless surface and neat manner of strassing , that worth what you pay.  And I use the glue distributed by Swarovski which specialized for Jewelry making.  I am sure no one want to carry anything cheap- looking goods.  After all, which strassing is way better?isnt it WORTH TO PAY $30-40 MORE TO GET A BETTER one?

Strassing is not as easy as it is seen. It requires pain-taking effort , and of course, lots of time.  It still takes me 2 hours to strass a pair of 4" bamboo hoops , 8-12 hours for a pair of 6" daffodile regardless of my 5 years experiece in strassing. Here I means strassing with quality,  making delicate and detailed design, Not in a sloppy ugly manner. And that does not include the time spend on preparation, and aftermaths when the bling is done. 

I definitely know it is easy to find a much cheaper bling than me on Alibaba or iOFFER and many more. yet,  I can guarantee that all my products are 100% good quality craftsmanship! I pay lots of attention to detail. THo you pay more, you will receive sth with good quality which  cannot be found from  those selling on ALIBABA. What's more is that  even those companies from China, as well as Sites from US such as Kollada dot com copied my photos without my permission as if their own. 

For those who are looking for cheap bling, go to somewhere else please. I just cannot sacrifice the quality of my work, and the joy I gained from making beautiful bling for the price sake.

And I am very confident in my price. Many of my competitors, surely they also make very good quality bling. Yet they are charging nearly $1000 for strassing a pair of daffodile or a Macbook case.  I I just charge 50% of their fee, or maybe even less.Since I am from Hong Kong ,my effort is  easily to be labeled as cheap labor no matter how pain taking or time consuming it is.  I do not have the power / advantages to set my price list as high as my competitors. Still, 

Please respect my work and my effort. 

Floral Wedding strass, Tiffany blue sole. Everything custom handmade

Instead of red sole , I make these in blue sole. Changed the floral accessory. And Strass in with clear crystal.It Turns our looking very nice, and my client loves it. They worked very nicely with her wedding dress! :) 

They 're done!!

I 've made two Crystal laptop cover  for Macbook Pro 13" this week. One in AB , and one in Clear color, as well as the Super Big My little pony iPad 2 case. It takes me lot lot lots of time to finish it!! Nevertheless, I 'm very satisfied with the result.