Choker Necklace Give Away Winner and Pedant Puffs

The Winner of the Choker Necklace Give Away is......

Shunshinegirl! Congrats! Please email me the

mailing address you would like the necklace to go to.

gollap1973@yahoo.com

A warm thank you to all who played along and entered the contest.

I plan to do another give away when Goya Designs has it's second year anniversary

in February, so stay tuned.

Now, I'd like to introduce something I've been working 

on for almost a year now.  

The pendant puffs are part of a new jewelry series I created with “minimalist pizazz” as my motto. Every pendant puff showcases designer fabric with a shiny, silver plated bail.   The over all design and cotton cord necklace are "minimalist". The magnetic clasp also fit my minimalist motto as it takes minimal effort to put on and take off.  The "pizazz" comes from the texture, colors and print of the fabric... and shiny bail.

Although these pendant puffs were photographed without their cotton cord necklace, they have them now.  The white flower puff comes with a black cord and the funky puff on the right has a pink cord.  Below are more puffs with awesome fabric.

If you would like high quality, designer fabric go to phat fabric.  Ms. Jamie Christina has plenty to choose from.  

I love geometric shapes and this dusty grey with pink and yellow is super

cute.

Are there any bird lovers out there?  If so, this pendant puff will catch your eye.

Goya Designs is currently closed.  My older sister is hosting a traveling jewelry party at work.  However, if you want any of these reserved for you, comment at the end of this blog asap and I will have my sister pull them out.  

I deeply want to talk about the long process of finalizing the pendant puff.  I have been wanting to incorporate the rich texture, colors and prints fabric has to offer into my jewelry for some time (over a year).  I tried many, many methods to incorporate fabric and beads, but alas, none were satisfactory (to me).  Then, I tried sealing the fabric and using resin to give it a wet, shiny look, but again, not to my satisfaction.  In the end, the minimalist approach won.  The fabric needed to showcase it's fibers in a large enough canvas, so I gave it what it needed.  I did learn something in this process.  Patience?  Hopefully some, but I learned that each failure was ruling methods out.  So, failure was a good thing, cuz it meant I was one step closer to success.  Closer to my goal.  

I think many of us are afraid to fail, but as I faintly remember reading some where 

"Failure is an event, not a person".