Saturday, October 24, 2015

Green Glass earrings

I titled this Green Glass.... but....These are made with acrylic made to look like broken glass. I don't know if they look like it to anyone else, but I kind of like them. 

Tinted with a transparent green, they are about an inch in length, wire wrapped. 





Saturday, October 17, 2015

Earrings

Earrings I made with glass beads strung on brass wire.












Maybe a better picture, color-wise.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

ring

I'm embarrassed to say, I have no idea what type stone this is. It is amber, reddish, and a tiny bit of orange... I don't know stones.
I've been working on a few rings, silver bands, silver rope circling the silver bezel. I like this one... it is a teardrop shape, which I think makes it a bit more elegant looking. 
Very simple ring. But I like it.





Saturday, October 3, 2015

Fall Leaves

I wanted to make something for Fall, something to wear on a scarf. There are no really nice leaves in my yard, the only trees I have left are the very old Mulberry trees. The leaves on them are huge, bigger than my hand usually, so I went hunting in the neighborhood and found a beautiful maple tree a few blocks over. I came home and messed around with the leaves I picked up. I finally used resin make a rigid enough leaf to imprint in molding material. I peeled it out and voila! a leaf mold... 

but... it was a flat leaf. I liked it ok, but you know what? I kind of wanted some shape to it... so, when I poured the acrylic into the mold to make this, I waited for about 8 hours and tried moving the mold... The acrylic wasn't going to pour out, but it wasn't solid either, so I used my vice and, no joke,  clothes pins, and pulled the mold out of shape a bit. 
It worked! I got a misshapen leaf. I drilled into it and placed the crystal... didn't get a really good picture of it, but it sparkles!
I used gold leaf to add a bit of detail on the "rim" around the edges, I used a knife to make that indention in the mold, but didn't get it all the way around, so it is just highlighted some