Week 27- Shaktipaj
I’m Waaaay behind in posting-please forgive me, life got away from me. I am going to "clog the blog" for a bit to catch up. I’ll try to be better about posting in a more timely fashion this quarter. These are for a Bridal ensemble-a pain, but also an unusual look, which is what was called for. The earwires are ss 20g, pearls, Swaros, too many headpins to count. :^) Comments ALWAYS welcome!
Perri
Flames start as embers
Very late here and still behind.
This piece was a bit of a challenge for me as I had never tried to form shapes freeform. Sterling silver and vintage glass seedies from the 50’s/60’s. Called "Flames start as Embers"..representing the slow burning passion that will eventually becoming a raging inferno.
It is a pendant, just don’t have a spare chain at the moment.
Thanks for having a look!!
Week 27 – weirdlywired
Slowly but surely, I’m getting caught up…
I made this necklace to match the bracelet per a customers request. LOTS of 20G copper twisted and coiled then made into links. The center (14G) is to match the one of the bracelet dangles. There are earrings too, on my journal along with close up views of the set. The whole thing was drugged and tumbled (my spell checker likes to try to make LOS into LSD, so that’s become the terminology of the process!). I ran out of time to take photos at home, so this was done on a picnic table outside from my booth.
Thanks for looking, and any feedback you may have to offer.
Cheers,
Angie S
Flammes of Passion
Flammes of Passion – Fire in the Belly
A pair of carnelian earrings in response to this week’s theme
Week 27 – enameled pendant
I made a pendant similar to this earlier on in the FSOJ and my friend Jean had admired it whenever she saw me wearing it. I made this for her a few weeks ago, but decided to save it for her birthday which was on Monday, so its now safe for me to post it up.
Its two pieces of sterling silver that have been stamped and domed before soldering together and then adding translucent enamel to the centre dome, I like using translucents as the stamping still shows and gives it more texture. The back has a tube soldered to the back for the chain.
Flames of Passion
Don’t know why it took me so long to come up with this one as the stones I have reflect the title so well….
Not sure what this stone is called – it goes beautifully with cherry quartz as well as tiger eye. A few dangly hearts (one of which is a little battered) representing the “battered hearts” I’m sure most of us have experienced at one time or another)….
Week 27 – Whirling Earrings
Whirling designs are ancient symbols that have been found in most of the world’s cultures. North American Indian whirling symbols depict the motion (cycle) of life, water, renewal, the four seasons and the four winds. Since I didn’t use a four point "whirl" design, these earrings depict the "motion of life". Simple design using 18 and 24 gauge sterling silver. -Nancy
Week 27 — Hearts on Fire
Simple earrings in the Hearts’ series, perfect for the theme Flames of Passion. They are made of 14/20 GF, fire opal Swarovski and lemon chalcedony. I hate it when the pictures make tiny flaws appear larger than life… 😦
Johanne from Quebec
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Week 27 – Eni Oken
This ring is a modified version of the Nest Bezel ring, the only differences being that I used a flat faceted oval bead and much thinner wire than I normally would. The 26 gauge was wrapped almost thirty times for the shank and many, many more for the bezel. Since the stone is flat, the bezel sits underneath it and not around the stone. The result is that you can see the threads of wire through the stone from the top (look at the last picture you can see some of it). Pretty neat effect. It didn’t take long to make, but boy did it take a load of wire! To see more pictures, go Lavender Nest Ring at the Journal.
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Another Simple Elements Necklace, inspired by Deborah!
This morning I popped in to see the latest inspirational offerings here at the year of jewelry project and found Deborah’s Phoenix Necklace. I gotta tell you Deb, I caught my breath when I saw it! I *loved* the look of the oblong rectangular stone with the netted cap. I had some sort of plain-ish agate tongues like this and I just couldn’t figure out what to do with them to save my life – but I’ve been itching to make *something* with them. When I saw Deb’s pendant I knew what I wanted to do with those agate tongues. 🙂 I had actually experimented with this netting idea back in the initial YOJ project, week 49 with just a flat tumbled piece of Montana Agate. It turned out so-so and I told myself at the time that I would experiment more with this technique but never really picked it up again until today. My technique is really primitive compared to what I’ve seen going around since Eni created a tut for the netted top drilled beads/briolettes. I thought that using a drilled bead might make it a little easier on me and I might even do better this time. Honestly though, I think my first attempt might have been at least a little better than this one even though it had a bit of an awkward start. Maybe I should drop the $ and get Eni’s tut to help me refine my netting skills? 😀
Either way, this is not a complicated necklace at all, and it’s certainly not perfect, but I’m really beginning to like this Simple Elements concept. Nothing that I did to make this necklace took more than a few minutes to do and then I was able to put them all together fairly quickly. The end result is a simplistic necklace with just the right amount of detail to be eye catching. No excess here, but that’s what I dig about it. 😀
So there you have my entry for week 27, Fire in the Belly.
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