Melissa Muir – Week 24
This is another piece I made while teaching a class on bezel setting and soldering. It turned out pretty nice. I love the simplicity of it. The stone is black onyx.
Riding the Waves
This is 10 coils 26g wire weaved together with 26g wire. The core wire is 18g. Beads used 4 mm copper stardust and 6mm purple keishi center drilled pearls. Thanks Linda C&C always Welcomed.MY WEB SITE
Week 24-Period of the Three Kingdoms–Seeing Spots
This piece was fun to make…drilling the holes in the copper tubing, torching the ends of the pendant wire to make heapins and then doing the freeform wire work. I really love these African beads and wanted to do something special with them. It was time to just stop looking at them and do something with them.
KittyD
Week 24: Blue Sapphire pendant for grandmum of twins
This sterling silver and Blue Sapphire necklace is for a very sweet
grandmother with very special grandchildren. She is celebrating her
60th birthday, and her cousin got this made for her, for her birthday.
Her grandchildren…a beautiful boy and a beautiful girl, are twins.
Their birthstone is Sapphire.
So I designed this pendant to
represent the twins. The sterling silver circle is divided into two by
a sterling silver wire in the shape of the yin-yang. And I bezel set
two pear shaped opaque Blue Sapphires in each half, facing opposite
directions. I added texture to one half of the yin-yang, to show it is
different from the other half. The Sapphires are the twins, in the same
womb (circle), but still separated to have their own space…connected,
yet individual…equal, and opposite (yin-yang space in the circle).
I
have stamped the words, "my pride, my joy, my deeya, my aarya" behind
the pendant to represent their grandmother's feelings for her
grandchildren Deeya and Aarya.
The chain is a sterling silver
rolo. I made the clasp with sterling silver wire, and wire-wrapped a
tiny pearl on it to represent motherly/grandmotherly love. I hope she
will like her gift :-).
To see more pictures, go to my blog: http://fleurviolettejewelry.blogspot.com/2009/07/blue-sapphire-pendant.html
Week 24 Carnelian ring
Simple little sterling ring with a bezel set oval carnelian.
Week 24-Key bracelet
Oh, I'm late again. I was so busy last week getting ready for the Flint Art Fair that I didn't get anything new made except for the earrings that go with this bracelet. This is another bracelet made from my old key collection and the customer wanted the stones changed to blue ones and earrings made to match. The stones are blue opal which I would use more if all the holes didn't have to be reamed. Thanks for looking.
Week 24 -“Hanging Around” – Randi/Dax58
I teach a few basic jewelry making classes, and the "Just Hanging
Around" pendant class has been pretty popular. I taught the class this
past weekend, and these pendants are samples for class inspiration. I
made the one on the left during class to show basic wire working – the
stone is a gorgeous tiger jasper (and I love the shape), with pearls,
jade, silver and glass beads. I made the pendant on the right awhile
ago (it is rhodonite), but I reworked the dangles a few days ago, so I
thought I'd post it.
Comments are always welcome… check out StudioDax for more about my teaching, My Jewelry Blog for more on my FSOJ projects, and My Website for more of my jewelry. Thanks, Randi
Cuff Bracelet
Although this project didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to, I'm okay with it. And during the process I learned things. =)
Using various gauges of wire, I soldered them one side at a time to wire which formed the ends. The three lentil shaped sterling beads were on the wire when soldered in place. All of the wire was straight when soldered, the bending was done after shaping.
After clean up and shaping the turquoise was sewn on with 20 gauge sterling silver.
Thank you,
Deborah aka Sneekbead
Week 24 – Leafy earrings
After all the work with the leaves for the Tree of Life #1, I felt I could probably do a much better job with a leaf component. Thus, these earrings. Instead of 22g copper, 19g half hard sterling. Instead of stringing the beads onto the spiral, couch them around the outside. Instead of a wrapped loop, a plain loop. I hung the finished leaves on a latch-back earwire, modified from the current issue of Art Jewelry, and there you are. Not only am I happy with the result, but I'm back on schedule for YOJ, which also makes me very happy.
It took almost a month to work through the processes to get to this point, but right now I'm very happy with the results, and look forward to using both the tree armatures and this leafy component in many future projects. I go into all the technical and creative details at Silver and Crystals and Beads, Oh My!. Your comments and critiques are always welcome. Thanks for looking.
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