Wishing you a ...

Un Joyeux Noël à tous !

Thank you for all the visits and comments !

Berber

Some time ago Mary from Ninde Designs sent me faux amber and faux coral beads she made ... Last week I used them ( with other beads I made or bought). The result is a faux antique berber necklace... To see the real one go there.

ring of thorns

silver

What's up ?

the answer is in the Other aTTiC...

This is ...

... a native american pottery shard it was sent to me by Sherry from Still Waters Studio to see more go to the Other aTTic ...

Black and White Ring

fine silver and hand cut bone cabochon

Wedding Gift

This is a necklace I made for one of my best friends , she's getting married next saturday !

more pictures on the other attic (now the link should work, thanks Sherry and Stephanie!)

Thanksgiving

Or how the witchy voodoo necklace ...

Most of the beads on this necklace have a meaning ... some were given to me by far away friends ( Laurence, Lindsay, Anuja , Claudia aka la Pitufina, Chantal) , some were bought or brought from places I like to remember, some bear important dates on them ( like the coins), some I made ( the little goddess), some I altered ( an old silver spoon from my grand mother) ... all of them are part of my life ... all of them tell my story... all of them tell how thankfull I am to be alive , to have visited places, to have met wonderful souls...

The first pictures is the necklace now , the last two is how the necklace was .. as you can see this necklace is a never ending story ... It will end with me ...maybe..

Gem Show

a rather crappy picture , the day was rather grey ... sorry

So last weekend was the annual gem show of my town ... I've been a good girl and only spent what I intended to spend! Silver beads , turquoise , some garnet , some agate plus a few goodies I didn't take a picture of ..

I did make jewelry these past days but the things I made are gifts ... so no picture for now ..

oh ... I wanted to say thank you for the lovely comments on the previous post ( I should say posts even !) ... It's always nice when people stop by to say "hi" !

Naga

This is a copy of a naga pendant. The Naga people live in northen India and Burma... They used to be headhunters ( till headhunting was banned in 1991). Usually tiger teeth or ivory is used for these pendants ... here the teeth are polymer clay. Happy Halloween !

Fly away

for more info go to The Other Attic

My very first time

... with metal clay



a charm : 1.5cm x 1cm



a ring

Ram

Made some time ago ... so not really new ...

Found Object

Iron with a bit of copper wire...

Long Horns

Bronze...

Taking pictures

To see more go to The Other Attic ...

Beads

Just as I thought I'd put polymer clay on hold someone ordered beads from me ...

Not made by me

This is an earring minus the earhook ... It was made by an anonymous artist from the Hill Tribes ... It's huge weights about 150 gr and about 18 cm tall. It was probably worn attached to a head dress. I turned this one into a huge pendant ..

The milky way or organic polymer

I found a great tutorial to learn how to make galalithe. Galalithe is a milk based polymer also known as "french bakelite". You have to heat some milk and pour a few drops of vinegar , then you filter the mixture, allow to dry a bit for 24 hours, then you can use it and turn it into beads or pendants and leave it dry for 3 days ( or more). You can sand it, saw it, file it, patinate it.

It takes time comparing to polymer clay but it's an organic plastic much better for health and environment ( though I will still use polymer clay, at least the one I still have).

Copper bracelet

To see a bigger picture click on it !

Riveted rings

Bronze Age

finished ( for now ...)

Rings

Well, this is after the breaking of the mold ... as you can see , a lot of work ahead.. sorry for the crappy photo!!!

Bronze ring

I took a wonderful lost wax bronze casting workshop last week ... Wonderful people and wonderful teacher from Burkina Faso ( Issa Ouedraogo)... I made loads of rings and other wearable things ( still have loads of sawing and filing and sanding to do ...)

Shield Earrings

Copper and silver

Copper and stone

Aluminium, copper and a river stone .... plus some hammering and riveting !

New fused rings

made of fused sterling silver wire ....

O X O necklace

Copper pendant

New fused ring

sterling and pure silver

Etc. earrings

silver hooks, quartz and aluminium

My new toys

some stones ( pebbles, quartz and agate) , and some tools... these will keep me busy for a while !!!

Earrings

Silver loops , aluminium and wood... These were made with my new toys ( i'll post a picture soon).

Fused Ring

made this afternoon , sterling silver and pure silver

Dangles and charms

silver plated wire and various glass beads... nothing original but fun to make !

all silver and stones ( agate ? quartz ?)

Flor

This was for a contest... but I wasn't fully satisfied with the focal ( I wanted to enamel it ... didnt have time to...) . So no contest .... oh well ... another time I guess ! The metal work and most of the beads were made by moi !

Back To Metal

These were made last year... brass wire

These were made today, brass sheet and GF earwires

Made today also, inspired by J. Gollberg's "Making Metal Jewelry" book : aluminium, glass beads and silver plated wire

New earrings

Clay ( terra cotta) and silver

Polymer clay faux river stones and silver