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Insect Earrings with Green Jade
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
April 16, 2012
I'll still working on those earrings.
But I was looking around today and found an old jewelry pin I made, on sale on eBay. The Dead Rat Pin. I made it because of an experience of my neighbor, finding a rat in her basement, cornered and chewing on the cement wall.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150798401569+#ht_500wt_1016
But I was looking around today and found an old jewelry pin I made, on sale on eBay. The Dead Rat Pin. I made it because of an experience of my neighbor, finding a rat in her basement, cornered and chewing on the cement wall.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
New Earrings 2012...continued
I've been working on some new earrings and will soon post my creations as soon as I photograph them. I'm not putting them in my Etsy shop right away, just want to show what I've been doing for the past week.
This morning I went out for coffee, but most importantly a hot cross bun. Alas, I was too early. Hot cross buns come around this holiday season which is coming to an end. I got coffee and considered a cinnamon bun except the best ones come from Standard Bakery in Portland, and I'll just wait.
This morning I went out for coffee, but most importantly a hot cross bun. Alas, I was too early. Hot cross buns come around this holiday season which is coming to an end. I got coffee and considered a cinnamon bun except the best ones come from Standard Bakery in Portland, and I'll just wait.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
New Earrings 2012
I have to design some new earrings for this summer. My jewelry sells in a few places in Maine that are open for the season, Memorial Day to Labor Day.
My idea for new work is formulating in my mind. I've been making lots of drawings and am trying different forms together, especially geometric shapes that play and interact with each other within one earring.
This is most important to me in my designs: each earring needs to be light in weight and comfortable to wear, and I want each piece of a pair to be a mirror image of the other. These parts frame the face of the wearer.
I make each piece individually, and this year I'm working with mixed metals, mostly copper and silver since I feel they relate to each other metallically.
In the alloying of sterling silver, a very small part is copper which is added to the fine silver. Copper makes the sterling silver more rigid and it holds up better than fine silver. When heated, fine silver is very mushy and bends quite easily even when compared to the same gauge or thickness of sterling silver.
I'll be selling some of the new earrings in my Etsy shop, but will also post them in this blog.
My idea for new work is formulating in my mind. I've been making lots of drawings and am trying different forms together, especially geometric shapes that play and interact with each other within one earring.
This is most important to me in my designs: each earring needs to be light in weight and comfortable to wear, and I want each piece of a pair to be a mirror image of the other. These parts frame the face of the wearer.
I make each piece individually, and this year I'm working with mixed metals, mostly copper and silver since I feel they relate to each other metallically.
In the alloying of sterling silver, a very small part is copper which is added to the fine silver. Copper makes the sterling silver more rigid and it holds up better than fine silver. When heated, fine silver is very mushy and bends quite easily even when compared to the same gauge or thickness of sterling silver.
I'll be selling some of the new earrings in my Etsy shop, but will also post them in this blog.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 2011
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