Revisiting some old favorites

January 7th, 2010

New versions of older designs, also for the sale :)

More sale stuff :)
Strawberry Shortcake - hand cut, soldered, stamped and polished strawberry pendant in sterling silver with dix gold leaf detail. Paired with a glass “berry” on a handmade sterling headpin with sterling bead cap
How Sweet It Is - hand cut and polished sterling silver pendent on sterling chain

Bamboo pendants

January 7th, 2010

Some more items I made for my show.
Two bolero-style necklaces with bamboo pendants
The geisha are on a sterling chain finished with Swarovski crystals, and the dancer is on a silver-plated chain finished with crystals and apatite tear drops. The tiles have been sealed with resin. Oh how I love resin!

Projects #24: Garnet rosary

January 6th, 2010

This is a five decade rosary inspired piece (I’m assuming these things need to be blessed to be legit). It contains 53 hand wired garnets (nearly broke my fingers!), red Swarovski crystals as decade markers, a beautiful red cubic zirconia drop, silver disk and antique sterling Birks cross. It took forever to wire this up. [...]

Projects #21 - 23: Cherries

January 6th, 2010

Cherry Pop v2 - red fossil cherries on a double-ended handmade sterling headpin with serpentine leaves
Cherry Pop v3 - glass cherries on a double-ended handmade sterling headpin with serpentine leaves

Diet Cherry Pop - red jade, serpentine, handmade sterling silver headpins and French ear wires.

Sunset at the Beach - Swarovski crystal starfish and assorted crystals with sterling shell and findings. Handmade French ear wires and hoop.
Midnight at the Oasis - sterling silver stars, amethysts and onyx with sterling silver chain and findings. Handmade French ear wires and hoop.

Projects #15 - 18

January 6th, 2010

Limeaid - peridots and sterling silver, handmade sterling rings and headpins
Lemonaid - fancy cut lemon quartz and sterling silver
Moonlight, stars and comet tails - opalite and sterling silver
Disco blues - glass and sterling silver
All ear wires are handmade.

Hand cut and stamped asymmetrical earrings, all sterling silver components. Handmade sterling silver French ear wires. Will eventually make a necklace too :)

These two sterling silver rings were hand forged, stamped and polished.
Latin for the truth will set you free.
The Answer the Question ring (or Question the Answer, depending on how you read it) was a new challenge becauseĀ it had to beĀ stamped after it was forged. Usually I stamp while the metal is still flat which makes [...]

Ok, finally posting up the rest of my 24 projects in 24 days stuff :) They were actually done within the 24 day period (which seems like such a long time ago) but due to lots of reasons I’m sure you don’t care about, I just didn’t get them online in a timely manner. Sorry [...]