Bead Soup Bangle – Wk 46

I like to make bead soup with leftover beads and this is an easy way to incorpoate them into a project. The bangle is premade, I covered it with coiled wire and the rest is basically a free form free for all!

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December 31, 2009. Week 46 - Due 15/11. Leave a comment.

YOJ09-46 Marquise Series: Pendant 1

Marquise Series: Pendant 1
Sterling silver, fine silver, cord
Constructed, cold-joined
L 6.1 cm x W 1.0 cm

The goal was to produce a nice, quick-to-make design, that could
become part of my bread-and-butter line for next year. As much as I
like making the complex one-of-a-kind pieces, most of my sales fall in
the in $20-$150 price range.

Without the neck rope, the pendant on its own would fall easily in the lower end of that range.

It’s been my experience that chains are uneconomic for me to make
from scratch, and that was proven true again with this piece. The
labour involved in making the neck rope bumps the price up
substantially, and the change to the cheaper material (polymer cord)
has a huge impact on the perceived value. I end up with a piece that is not sellable at the price I need to sell it at to recoup my costs and actually pay myself.

It’s perverse. It’s also why I don’t generally use “cheap”
materials. I want you to feel good about what you’re buying from me,
so I make high quality jewellery, with high quality materials. It’s
worth every cent. See more from this series on my blog, a wrapturous blog. Comments are always welcome! Thanks for looking!

December 23, 2009. Week 46 - Due 15/11. 1 comment.

Week 46-Vine Earrings

These are a couple of little soldered shapes that I pulled out of my spare parts box. My goal was to embellish them with the fine silver viney things that some folks do so well but I

underestimated the lengths of wire that were needed. I added some little amethyst brios and the mytic quartz brios on the bottom give off a purple reflection when the light is right. Thanks for looking.

November 16, 2009. Week 46 - Due 15/11. 4 comments.

Lapis & Lampwork

Using some lampwork I purchased from Gemsinbloom…I paired it with lapis, smoky quartz and pyrite. It all came together with sterling silver wire, using Eni's bracelet technique.