magpie with bat's wings

Jewelry I made, jewelry given and made by friends, jewelry bought... jewelry all over the place...yeah.. and books...

This post was inspired by a new visitor...

The jewelry "holder" was inspired by Sherry.

Oh check out Sharon's cool gator lamp...

objects

elements

Found bone and epoxy clay


Embossed brass... made them last year.. still don't know what to do with them... maybe on a book cover...

Aluminum and epoxy clay, also made last year...

Old Glory

Sherry asked if on the talisman necklace the rusty bottle cap I used was one I found on Sheepneck Road... it wasn't... so I decided today to use some of the goodies I found there last April... 2 bottle caps and a rusty piece of wire... The huge tooth ( horse? cow?) was given to me by Jay ( he said "I see a necklace" when he gave it to me), I also used one of the faces I "stole" from him.. the chevron bead, the skull bead, the "coffin" bead and the red beads are from Gayle... Thank you friends... this necklace would not exist without you... :)))

And... yeah... kinda a month late for the theme... ;)

Wah Wah - Jimmy Page & Robert Plant

talisman

A rusty bottle cap, two very old bronze thingies (Middle Age?), water buffalo tooth, cotton tassels and leather.
Made it last year but never took the time to take a photo... just messing with my camera today...

I thought I lost you...

This is my ring... This is one of the pieces of jewelry that (almost) never leaves me... For the last two days, I thought I lost it... searched everywhere (obviously not) and could not find it... then EUREKA... I looked under the kitchen cabinets... and there it was...

This ring and I, we met some 6 years ago in an antique shop in Brussels... more of a cabinet of curiosities than a shop... mostly African curiosities... some Asian... a treat for the eyes... The owner too... bald head and a huge "bicycle handle" moustache... He told me the ring could be 50 years old or more... it was bought in Ethiopia but was probably made in Yemen... I've seen rings like that elsewhere... better made... this one looks like the work of an apprentice... it's not perfect and I guess that is why I fell for it...

Do you have a favorite piece of jewelry that never leaves you?

still life

Lucie's post inspired this photo... unlike her, I don't wear bracelets everyday ( unless a huge sporty man wrist watch is considered as a bracelet).

skinny

paper clay

Tom Thumb

A few days ago, Gayle ( A Vintage Green Life) and I were talking ( well e-mailing) about epoxy paste... she used some on her new project and she asked me if I ever used it... I said I did but mostly to glue stuff together ( like horsehair in bullet casing) ..then I remember I once used it to make a ring.. a weird ring...I made it some two years ago... my left thumb cast in resin... and I have all the other fingers of my left hand waiting to be set in epoxy clay... they have been waiting for two years... maybe it's about time I finish this project, don't you think?

Get Low Trailer (HD)

Seen it a few months ago... I think it's one of my favorite films (ok, the list is quite long..).

Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation -The Girl From The North Country

Friends

I saw them that year... the best concert I've ever been to... Enjoy!

Warning!

There's a crazy woman on the loose on the West Coast... Her name is Gayle Hajek, she has a cool blog called A Vintage Green Life and I am very proud to call her my friend...
A couple of weeks ago, she found some cool pods that looked like bats and she decided I needed some... So we agreed to have a kind of swap... She said she'd send a few pods along with "some" stuff... yeah "some"...shaking my head... little did I know that "some" in Gayle's world meant "loads of"... and to prove it... well look at the pictures below... and she even apologized for the "messy" packaging... sigh...

Some of the goodies already found their way to my "voodoo" necklace... I think the necklace should have another name... I like "voodoo" because it kinda creeps some people... but the more I think about it, the more I see it like some kind of shaman-memory necklace... each element has a meaning, a story to tell about my travels, my family and my friends (who are family to me)...

Gayle makes and collects memory jugs ( the very first ones I saw were on her blog even though I heard of them before) and I think this necklace is my wearable version of a memory jug...

THANK YOU GAYLE... for your friendship, your support and for having found me... And THANK YOU to all of my friends... It's hard for me to express my feelings but I want you to know that I love you to bits...

When The Levee Breaks - Jimmy Page & Robert Plant