Four Seasons of Jewelry '06-'07

Silver Twists

Another catch up post with my returned camera.  A fun piece - a pendent that looks like a twisted silver leaf, made with little silver beads & seed beads.  Strung on leather cord with silver coils, silver bali-style beads & moonstone. 

Week 7

More cab fun. Still having to keep it a little simple. My wrist is still recovering from surgery so really big projects are still beyond my scope right now.

Week 7 - weirdlywired

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!

This is a pretty simple and straight forward bracelet...copper and Carnelian.  I think my favorite thing about this is seeing the skeletal trees reflected in the Carnelian coins.

My journal isn't updated with this entry yet - sorry - but there will be a few more pics when it gets on there.

Thanks for looking, and I hope everyone has a safe and happy Holiday!

Angie S
http://www.allthingsangie.com/YearofJewelry.html

Week 7 - simple bracelet

Another simple piece.  A 2 in 1 sterling silver bracelet made from heavy guage silver jump rings with two twisted bali jump rings in between each one.

Julie

Week 7- Turning Point

In the interest of catching up, I am going to use commissions for this week and next.  They are both very "earthy".

I have a customer with similar taste in lampwork beads as mine.  Every now and then she sends me beads to work into bracelets.  Sometimes with suggestions and sometimes with a free rein.  It is always fun.

This latest set my customer sent is by lampwork artist Cheryl Sweeny.  They are my favorite colors to work with, and I love Cheryl's beads but for whaever reason I could not settle on a design I liked.  I couldn't seem to find a way to work with the intense patterns in the beads.  Finally I decided to split the beads in two and make two bracelets. 

This bracelet has a metal worked copper piece that refects the design on the focal bead.  The base of the bracelet is 14 gauge sterling wire.  In addition to the lampwork beads from my customer I have used copper beads, bone beads, Hill Tribe beads, additional lampwork and ceramic spacers.

The copper piece has been hand cut and sanded, textured with a ball peen hammer and then drilled.  The entire piece was given a LOS treatment.

Mary

Ninde' Designs       www.nindedesigns.com

Turning point.

Well, ust got my new photo tent off of ebay.  Love it.  Still need to play a bit to get the right details showing up, but wow, my white is white finally!  Now, I just need to work on the definition again...  sigh.

so, three pieces in a set.  All sterling silver, with garnet and burgandy pearls.  Very pretty, and yet modern and funky.  I have wanted to do this for a while, and only now managed to get the time, and the reason! (gotta love FSOJ!)

Week seven, off topic & late

This was mostly done on time, and then my entire household got hit with the flu, and miscellaneous other fun bugs.  We seem to be better now, thank goodness!  I am WAY behind on commenting, and on commenting on comments left.  I will try to do better this week.

Etched copper.  The bail is attached with a sterling rivet.  I scratched the bail pretty badly when forming it so this is going into the "learning experience" bin.

Turning Point Star Earrings by Lara

I made these cute little chain earrings with tigereye stars, Swarovski crystals and sterling silver bead caps. I think they look very nice! Mum (Jackie) likes them so I'm making her a pair too!

~Lara

Turning Point-Margit

I actually started this vine form bracelet prior to week 6.  I ran out of the rusty-marroon colored wire , thus, having to make some adaptations...such as the silver wire near the clasp.  This reminds me of pussy-willow.

To Everything Turn, Turn, Turn

There is a season, and the rest of the song has been really poignant for me this week. Keeping my spirits up with humor, but it has not been good. My most sincere apologies for tardiness.  While I stared out the window inspirationless, it occurred to me that nature was presenting the perfect model - my trees.  I know, just Swaros and pearls. And I lamented the lack of funds to purchase GF until I realized my trees are birches and hence, the silver is perfect. The Goddess would not let me go until all of the parts were assembled for this one.  Here's the rundown:
1. Removable slider
2. Slider plus pendant cluster plus Swaro sprinkled chain
3.  Smaller leaves strand
4. Larger leaves strand
5. 3 -to -1 connector
6. Full Turning leaves
All are fully interchangable, and of course, the slider will go on all. As usual, critiques and comments are totally welcome, including blasting me for lateness.

Bonus: I'm offering a pair of Leaf earrings to the first person who can correctly tell me how many different necklace variations this will make up into.
Perri