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Tell Tchaikovsky the News – Your Favorite Musicians Immortalized in Custom Projects

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 9, 2011

Many of us began showing the world our love for our favorite music as soon as we could copy the logo of our favorite band onto a schoolbook cover.  That devotion continues to manifest itself through posters, bumper stickers, desktop pictures, ringtones, etc.  Classical composers commemorated in busts are a common sight in music classrooms, [...]

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Incredible, Inedible Custom Made Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 23, 2011

We recently showcased Antar Studios’ amazing realistic stone sculptures of popular food items.  The artistic media that CustomMade artisans can make look good enough to eat aren’t set in stone, however.  It should come as no surprise that a custom jewelry design, with its visual, kinetic, and tactile dimensions, could also trigger a synesthetic reaction [...]

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Animal Motifs in Custom Made Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 13, 2011

Are you an animal lover? Add a sense of play and the spark of nature to your custom jewelry with animal motifs.  Get your favorite creature great or small in an eye-catching piece that will show off your passion.  The incredible diversity of the animal kingdom can inspire almost limitless ideas.  Come see the fauna that [...]

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Go Team! Custom Made Items for the Sports Fan

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 10, 2011

Like sports?  Do you have everything that has your favorite team’s logo?

Here are a few items you may not have.  Yet.

Go custom with your passion for your favorite team.  The artisans of CustomMade can create unique custom jewelry and custom glassworks that will appeal to the true sports fan.

Custom Jewelry Design to [...]

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New Settings Bring New Life to Your Custom Jewelry Collection

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on April 3, 2011

Is there a jewelry piece in your collection that has sentimental value that you don’t wear anymore?  Perhaps you have loose gemstones that have never been set or heirloom jewelry that has been damaged or worn with use that you’d like to showcase once more? A custom jewelry design featuring new settings can bring new [...]

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Go Dancing with Custom Made Jewelry

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on March 31, 2011

When you wear your favorite jewelry pieces, you’re doing more than simply displaying them.  Your jewelry moves with you.  If you enjoy moving to music, why not find a CustomMade artisan who can create custom jewelry pieces that will look great when you get on the dance floor?

On the CustomMade program tonight are some scintillating numbers.

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Organic Media and Custom Jewelry Design

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on March 27, 2011

At CustomMade, you can find hundreds of examples of custom made jewelry featuring precious metals, gems, and beadwork.  Of course, you can also find custom jewelry crafted from organic materials such as wood.  Have you considered adding other organic materials to your custom jewelry design palette, such as leather, horsehair, or fossils?  Organic media can [...]

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Plant Life Motifs and Custom Jewelry Design

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on March 10, 2011

Creating pieces that convey a sense of vitality and movement is a mark of mastery, no matter what media the artisans use or what they create.  Works that seem to have a life of their own command attention and extend their special aura to everything around them.  Representations of plant life can capture that vital [...]

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Out of This World Custom Jewelry by Metamorphosis Jewelry Design

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on March 3, 2011

At CustomMade, we love to feature the stories behind the pieces, from the artisans’ explanations of influences and inspirations to information about the raw materials used to create the piece.  Just as the stories of exotic woods and precious resources rescued from destruction add character to custom furniture pieces, the provenance of gems and metals [...]

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“Snow White Goes Goth” – Custom Jewelry from The Stefanie Somers Collection

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on February 26, 2011

Let’s say you have a special upcoming photo shoot, and you have a very particular and elaborate theme for a custom jewelry design.  You’d like some options for your accessories that go from subtle to “wow.”  You’d like a companion piece of custom made jewelry in the same theme for your child, too.

Good luck [...]

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