TED

I recommend TED. What is TED you ask? It stands for Technology Entertainment Design. It is a great website where people from various fields come and give a talk within a specified period of time. They talk about their ideas, research and a whole lot of other things.
I found it a year ago and still enjoy listening to the talks. After watching how these people talk and interact with their audience, I found it so mind blowing.

Never knew people could be THAT inspiring, funny and interactive at the same time.

This is my favorite video and if I think about it this is the very first video that I watched when I decided to give TED a try, It will not take much of your time. Seat down, listen and watch.

This one is by Ken Robinsons and his topic is on how School kills creativity. Very funny and thought provoking. He made me think so much and I am thankful that Ted put this on their site.
I have put the video here but you may check it out on TED directly streaming it over on this !link!



There are others that I recommend to watch but the list might be endless. So I give you the choice of checking the website yourself which is : www.ted.com
Not trying to sound dramatic but It might change your perception of things permanently.

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Inspiration for Dw33b Collection #005 - Metal Element

Metal Element



Attack Of the Sword

This bracelet was originally a key chain but I broke it down and transformed it into a bracelet.

Not bad eh how it turned out?


Edgy Simplicity

Dead cool. That is what I think when I see these bracelets.
There is something very appealing about them.
I grew up watching cowboy cartoons on Cartoon Network. The main character would usually be boarding a train and then somehow get lost along the way after some misadventures.
Tired and thirsty they would hallucinate and then would see a cow skull who would cackle and say "You' ll be sorry ~~~" when they find some water or oasis. Man that is so rare to see these days in cartoons as that concept has been over used .

They can be found !here!

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Inspiration for Dw33b collection #004- Characteristics of a Tree

Dw33b Collection #004 Characteristics of a Tree Group shot



I believe that i did not do justice to this post so I went out on 13-11-2009 and took some pictures. I hope the pictures I took will be able to explain why I got so inspired to create Dw33b collection #004- Characteristics of a Tree. Made some changes as well within the post. Hopefully it will make sense.
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HOW DID I GET INSPIRED?

Let me ramble a bit on how I became inspired...So how did it came to be? Well as usual a series of events inspired and motivated me.
I met a customer who gave me feedback about this blog and we talked for a bit. After talking with him, he asked when would i be making bracelets for guys. I wish to say a big THANK YOU to him, you know who you are. I hope you are reading this post. So i took the initiative and thought '"What would guys wear as bracelets?"'

So I went out to do some research wondering what type of bracelets would look just right on guys.



It was pretty difficult at first as almost all the stores I went to were selling jewelry for the female population and the ones selling men jewelry almost had the same look. After that I tried to look at pictures on what was define as a "guy bracelet" online.

It took awhile for me to get an idea but then it happened I was driving and saw this tree that stood out to me when I was waiting for the traffic-light to turn green. The sunlight made me notice that tree and somehow it caught my eye. (LOL silly but true)



That suddenly inspired and made me think. I should try a collection base on the Characteristics of a Tree.

Trees are everywhere we look in Brunei and there is something priceless about them. Here are a couple of pictures I took of Trees found in Brunei. This is just a glimpse of what inspired me..

I took this picture in the Jerudong Area near one of the few beaches.
I took pictures randomly and only when I really looked at this photo I noticed the branches of one of the tree. It looks like it is trying to touch the sky :P

Seriously, the vegetation in Brunei is so GREEN. Simply amazing.
I usually would be the one driving around but this time around I got to sit in the back! ^_^
So I took it as a mini challenge to try and take as many pictures as possible of the passing scenery.

In this picture, so much has changed...If my memory serves me right..a couple of months ago there was a landslide ..no trees...not even grass. Time flies by fast eh?

Seriously grateful to live in Brunei. I appreciate nature a lot.
I was using a camera phone. The pictures did not turn out bad. I tried to take as many pictures as I could. It was a lot of fun as I tried to figure out the timing of what I wanted to include in the picture.

The collection and details are found here!

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Inspiration Dw33b Collection #003 Cindy and her Rainbow Color Shoes

Dw33b Collection #003 Cindy and her Rainbow Color Shoes


The collection is base on shoes and colors!!
A very strange combination which links up quite nicely
(In my head of course : P)


Cinderella the Disney character was on my mind when I saw these shoes at a store collecting dust . They caught my eye and I felt that they could become something I define as dweeby. My goods friends are also part of the inspiration. I showed them some necklaces a couple of months before setting this blog up, They suggested to me to try one-tone color necklaces. I linked up the concept of self worth as well.

Ok let me start with the fact that when I was younger, I watched Cinderella and loved her glass slipper. I loved the concept that she made her dreams a reality with the help of a fairy god mother, farm animals. (I like Gus gus! He was a pretty spunky for a small rodent)

When I list it down, It seems utterly impossible for that sort of thing to happen in real life. Questions start to form in my head:

• What are the odds of anyone changing a pumpkin into a form of transportation literally?
• How did Cinderella manage to dance while wearing shoes made out of glass?
• The relationship could only be taken further when she left her shoe equated to a marriage proposal. In real life, any normal person would think twice..

However, Cinderella did set the bar up high on how a relationship should be defined.

So how does the concept of self worth tie in with what inspired me?
Well, while I was making these necklaces I was listening to a song by Karina Pasian.
The song is called 16 At war, I like listening to the lyrics of songs and then the music.

In that song, she talks about there are so many challenges faced on whether you should follow what people around you are doing, the value you put on yourself, the conflicting emotions and how loving yourself should be in your TOP priority.
I think people can relate to some of the words in the song.

So we will only learn through trial and error. That is how we grow to LOVE the person staring
back at us in the mirror in turn building our self worth.Hope I am going to far away from the topic.So how do shoes link up to this post?
Well continue reading as I have wrote a little story for this Dw33b Collection #003...

Cindy and her Rainbow Color Shoes

We all heard the story of the girl who left her shoe and got to marry a prince in the end.

This is another story.

Cindy was a girl who dreams like any other girl of meeting someone who loved her for her, then she met someone who "might" have been the one and she left her shoe by accident.

He NEVER looked for her.
After all that time wasted, she woke up to the reality she would NOT be defined as the girl who lost her shoe.

After many trial and errors, she found some good shoes along the way to help her walk ahead and be comfortable with who she was as each color represented a lesson.

She knew that love will come knocking right at her door when she loves herself and NOT let others define her.

One day she met someone, he saw the real her and on the day of their wedding day he got her a big closet to keep her shoes . Their life together had just begun.

You can have a piece of that dream in the form of a necklace as well.
I present to you Cindy and her Rainbow Color one-of-a-Kind style found here.

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Inspiration behind Dw33b Collection #002 A Mermaid's Dreams

A Mermaid's Dreams

My Dw33b Collection has to do with Mermaids. When i was a kid i seriously believed in their existence and then as i grew up my sister corrected me and told me instead of looking like this, they look like this! O well...One can dream ^_^


Freedom to be me

This is one of my favorite among the Dw33b Collection.

The inspiration behind the collection was that I thought of the lovely endless blue sky, the sounds of the crashing waves, the feel of the sand in between one's toes, the broken seashells while looking for a perfect one and the tiny crabs that run across the sand.

Hahahah Those things might be good or bad depending on one's person opinion.

Just looking at the beach makes me think of stories from the storybooks about Mermaids. Do they exist? Maybe or maybe not.

With this collection I imagine these would be the types of colors the female mermaids would wear on days when they watch a storm or swim around with their friends as they look around the world they live in.

Right at this moment the tune from the Little Mermaid Disney is playing in my head

"Under the sea~~~

Under the sea~~

Under the Water~~

hmmmm Fish swim happily and free~~~~"

Hahahaha i think i just got the lyrics wrong..

Sorry Sebastian the Crab! (I am a fan of yours though)

I grew up with three versions of what happened to the mermaid when she fell in love with a prince who lived in a world different than hers literally.

1. As we all know Ariel the Disney Mermaid stayed on Land with her True Love, They married and even had a child. Almost everyone was happy except for the Witch, her eel helpers and of course the "Crazy" Chef (A classic Character!!). That was the happy ending.
2. The second one was the true classic where the mermaid jumps into the sea and ends up turning into foam because the prince married anothe girl he had mistaken as the one who saved him. She in a sense "died", I cried my eyes out when i read this one. She still wished him the best in the end.
3. Finally my personal favorite, The mermaid found her voice with the help of her wonderful sisters and managed to tell the Prince in her own Voice the truth before he could say "yes" to the girl he thought was the one. The Prince followed her back to her Kingdom with the help of a potion where they both still lived ruling the Undersea Kingdom happily together. (They both did not have Fish Tails though)

If you read this far on this post, I copy and pasted this from the Dw33b Online store. Arranged the structure a bit though!

The next part isn't copy and pasted so..... READ ON! : p

This collection really what drove me to create more jewelry with soft colors.
The options became endless combination! I was in awe when I finished this collection and I felt a kind of happiness because I made it with my own two hands. I could not believe it myself ans still have to shake my self sometimes. The earrings were the trigger as I made the bracelets after them. I had to redo the earrings a couple of times as they were not to my liking.
After starting to do handmade jewelry, I began to gain respect to the people who do this for a living. They are simply amazing people who live, dream and breath their art.

I actually made some pieces for my siblings according to their specifications and tried my best with the limited abilities I have. Will ask them for their permission to take photos and post it here ^_^

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Inspiration for Dw33b Collection #001

This is my very FIRST Dw33b collection that I posted on my online store - Dw33b on 9/6/09 of last year. I was still in University of Brunei Darussalam (graduation was still far away and I was counting the days). I even finally got the nerve to start my blog after my family support.

This Broken City is the work of hard labor and lots of love. I strained my neck as I joined the jump rings one by one with my jewelry equipment. It was and still is WORTH all the effort!


Actually it did not really look like this in the beginning, I had to make some DRASTIC changes to the original design.
Sadly, no photo of it but I remember it in my head so clearly and I promise myself NEVER to use the original (or is first draft a better word?)design as it was not safe to wear.

How did I decide it was not safe to wear?

Well ~~ Every design I make especially METAL base ones , I would wear first
(I have a prototype of each jewelry : P )before I would put it on Dw33b's store.
I believe quality and safety comes in hand in hand when making jewelry.

This is the story as to why I am cautious when it comes to the design

Let me recount the story without going too much into detail.
I went out with my sibling and Auntie to Yayasan (Our capital Bandar Seri Begawan shopping area). It was on that day I decided to use the Broken City Bracelet "prototype" ^_^ to see if it would be ok to use on a daily basis.
We were on our way home and my sibling was driving and talking to our Auntie.
Suddenly my sibling had to slam the brakes to prevent from colliding with the car ahead of us.
I was sitting in the back seat and kinda collided with the front chair
(Note to self- Wear a seat belt when sitting in the back )
as a result of the sudden brake my arm got a LONG visible scratch on my arm due to the bracelet, nobody was hurt but the bracelet (the first design) was a safety hazard. It took awhile for the scratch to go away and it became a reminder to myself to be careful.
So I redesign it and it turned out well.

It took me a couple of weeks and I managed to come up with the final design. After the bracelet, the earrings and necklace came easily.

It may be found here (Will redirect you to Dw33b's Store)

That is all that I shall say regarding for now...
I shall be back to post again!
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Welcome!

Hello Everybody.

I have made some post and to bring you up to speed with my line of thought of where I am going with this. I have started my second website which is an extension of my Dw33b online store : www.dw33b.blogspot.com where I sell handmade jewelry that is made in Brunei!

So why bother to open a second website?

• I wanted to be more interactive
• Update more often on my progress
• Blog about things that seem interesting to me
• My dw33b online store and this blog complements each other
• Base on the information I have gathered (Heh I have my sources : P)

So once again WELCOME!! I have been silently blogging all this time about some of inspirations or anything that links up my Dw33b Collection(That is why Dw33b has been pretty silent). You may check them out by clicking on the tag labeled !inspiration! found on the left of the page. Some may be familiar to people who have checked out the blog while other post are a variation or completely new.
Check them out and I will be updating this blog more every 2-3 days.

What type of things will I post about?

• Activities that I have done
  
• Tutorials
• Side Projects
• Blogs
• Brunei

The list goes on but that is the gist of my idea. I will not bore you with every small detail. Less talk more blogging!

Main site for my items for sale : www.dw33b.blogspot.com
My blogging site: www.dw33by.blogspot.com

Well I shall see you again. If anything please contact me to give me feed back or whatever you want to talk about at dweeb.store@gmail.com or dweeb_store@rockectmail.com

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What did I do during my Hiatus? *Read If you dare*

It is 2010, So much has happened within the last year that it is not humanely possible for me to even squeeze the events into one post let alone a couple of blog posts. So I will take my time, Dw33b is definitely going to be around as long as I am here.

It it has been 15 days = 2 weeks 1 day = 360 hours= 21600 minutes since 2010 has arrived.
It sounds like an awful lot of time has passed when we look it from this perspective.
(I used a calculator to get the hours and minutes, I am currently thinking of Rent the movie opening song [Youtube link to the song] so it is a rent inspired sentence lol)

Time has gone so fast. I have so far did what most people do when new year comes, I made resolutions. I realize 99.99% of the time my resolutions rarely make it through 1 month. Just talk, no action which is pretty bad. So the odds of me even doing it has a low probability.
I like to call them "evolutions" now. An evolution to do better "everything". ^_^

My "evolutions" are set in stone ......erm ....actually in paper. I managed to make a poster of sorts with my big goals listed into small actions and put it on my wall. Whenever I enter my room, I can see it on my wall and it is an actual written document -A promise I make to myself. Corny but true.

One of those goals is to try Sand surfing. I have been wanting to do it since two years ago! I found it in a book and did some research. It is similar to surfing instead of the water you do it on a sand dune. No danger of drowning (cannot swim ), the possibility of bruises are possible. I told this plan to one of my close friends, she is doing her Masters in Australia and I will definitely save up to visit. One of the things I want to do when I get there is Sand Surfing!! Definitely on my "evolution" list to try new things.

So what have I been up too? hm...During my hiatus, I have been doing some of the things that I use to do.
One of those things is GAMES!
Yes! I have gamers blood flowing through my veins. (It is not obvious when you see me in person though)
There is something so addictive about games that I cannot resist playing games on almost any platforms - PS1,PS2,PS3, Game Boy, PC, Online you name it I will try it or am itching to get my hands on it. Role playing games(RPGS), car racing, fighting games... I really enjoy it a lot.

It is similar too when you drink your first cup of Coffee... you never tire of it.

*Sigh* I use to play a game for days without sleeping and be cooped up in my room with the intent of finishing it. That was last time, Now I have reduce it as I discovered making hand made stuff has become one of my "passion" and it fills my mind.

I am still in awe of PS3 graphics though...... they are so amazing but I do miss the mini characters found on PS 1 and PS2. My brothers were playing Soul Calibur IV on PS3, I was passing by and the I felt the need to watch because I played it on PS2 (Loved it!).
I sat down, make myself comfortable and watch for a long time as though it was a movie, It has advanced so much... (Yes I am a totally nerd-dweeb lol)

What else eh? I managed to read and finish some of my books I bought awhile back and even picked up writing again. I even met up with some of my Friends, So glad we managed to make time to meet up. I did other stuff as well but for the sake of this post I will ramble to a minimum as I tend to ramble on too much.
: P

Heh I am jumping from topic to topic eh?Inspiration is everywhere and I want to try as much as possible to do a variety of handmade items. I seriously did not think I would be into Handmade items, it kind of found me which is so unexpected in a good way.

So during my hiatus, I still was thinking about Dw33b even though I was on a break.
I drove around Brunei and did some walking around Brunei to get inspired.
Seriously, Brunei is a beautiful country and so peaceful .... that is until it is payday,
you are in Gadong or Kiulap stuck in the traffic jam for the last half hour while keeping an eye out for the elusive parking spot, wondering how you manage to even get involved with the traffic jam.
Lol just take this as a light rambling of a person.

Before I get into deep about games and traffic jams let us move on to jewelry.
During my hiatus:

• Made some jewelry, mostly w-i-p (work in progress)
• Meeting some customers who are awesome! (Yes,Awesome is permanently in my vocabulary -_-)
• Getting feedback from my family (they are pretty honest with the constructive criticism)
• Getting challenged by family as well as friends to recreate stuff into jewelry
• Did repair work (practice makes perfect)
• Researching on other side projects
• Getting inspired by the Family, Friends, Customers words

I took some photos of what I did alas they are in my sister's laptop. So will upload them soon.



Jewelry Hint
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Dw33b's next collection has to do with the sky and the beach as well but it has nothing to do with My Pirate collection!
That is all I shall say : p

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I appreciate that you have read this until the end.
Thank you from the bottom of my very human heart for reading this blog.
Hope I am not boring people to death with my ramblings which is irrelevant but relevant at the same time (It is fun : P ).
Hope you enjoy reading this post, my blog overall and be prepared for my next post.
Off I go to play g..*ahem* prepare the pictures for my next blog post. See you soon!

Dw33b
One dweeb's store of handmade dreams and unique stuff
*All branding and products are trademarked by DW33B.
No designs, names, or descriptions may be replicated for any other purpose.

Inspiration Behind Earrings Galore

EARRINGS GALORE
Sparkle and Shine Inside and out

I made these earrings in my spare time using a wire wrapping technique. I enjoy my free time and wish there were more hours in the day but that is not possible is it? I bet if there was more hours in a day I would be wishing for less hours in a day. Human beings can be so fickle sometimes! : P

I personally think of Thailand when I see these earrings. No idea strange eh?
I have been there and it was an enjoyable trip. I definitely want to go there again to just take as many photos as possible. *Sigh* I am getting off track eh?








One of my mama's good friend sells natural stones and I was lucky enough to meet up with her. She had some pearls and I straight away said that I would love to purchase it from her. (She is so talented in her craft.) She even taught me some of her techniques when it came to female bracelets.




The cream gold buttons have been with me for a couple of months. I was planning to make them into earrings since day one. I saw them and thought they look so neglected and very eye catching. So I purchased them straight away.

Check them out !here!

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