All that glitters

Since I was a young child, my parents used to call me a magpie - attracted to everything shiny. It has not gotten better with time, on the contrary, now I'm making my own shiny things. As much jewellery as I make, there is only a number of pieces that I actually wear regularly and I would like to show you some now, all made from polymer clay and something.

Faux turquoise necklace with crystal beads:



Art sheet earrings on sterling silver earwires:


Faux jade necklace with supposedly my name in ancient Chinese characters:



Flower bracelet with renaissance pearls:


PS: I take custom orders, too :-).

Pending Flower

A bunch of pendants I made these last days:

Beautiful Things...

... come in small packages :-) This bracelet was given to me by my student at the end of the term. She remembered that I like little jewellery things, that I had admired a similar bracelet on her and noticed that blue is my favourite colour! Isn't that lovely?!


PS: Since I didn't get around to posting a picture yesterday, you get two for the price of one today ;-).

Lost and found

Long time ago, a friend gave me a golden brown cabochon that had fallen out of a belt-buckle of hers. She thought I might be able to use it somehow, I liked it and so I kept it.. for two years. And finally this weekend, I made something out of it. This:

Work in progress

Every time I go to a craft store, I see a new interesting technique or when I visit my parents, my mum's got some new jewellery book and I'm immediately interested. The downside to all this is that I want to try something, I have to purchase the material and that adds up with time.
The latest thing is beaded cabochons as pendants (this will be one when it's finished), earrings, brooches ... anyone interested...?

Knotted

The other day, I bought one book on Celtic knots and one on Chinese knots for jewellery and now I'm starting to try them out. What you can see here are the second and third necklace I made. I quite like them and they actually look even better on a person's (my) neck.
Oh, and check out the bokeh :-)


PS: I'm sorry for still using only this one blog for photos but maybe it'll help loading faster if I only have the last 10 (instead of 30) pictures displayed on the first page.

One of those days...

Do you know those mornings when you already wake up with a piercing headache, as if a screw went right through your head...?


Heart pendant in steampunk style.. I think I'm developping a liking for it.

Productive Weekend

A training and going out on Saturday, some jewellery making on Sunday.


Btw... mum, that's what I made from your leftover rocailles:

Real Fake

These roses are imitated - they're handmade by me from polymer clay - but they are real as well: the petals contain dried petals from true pink (funnily, they turned yellowish when dry) and red roses that were mixed into the clay.

Unchained

I had an instruction leaf for a simple necklace I planned on making as a (side) christmas present for my mother but unfortunately, I didn't take it before leaving for my parents' place. As I still had a vague idea, I drew pictures and tried, and then tried some more but to no satisfying end. I was about to sacrifice one of my own when I saw a picture of something similar, made out of eyepins and I think semi-precious stones. Eyepins I had, as well as Czech crystals in several colours. So I gave it a try and this is what I ended up with. I like it and on my mum who is always a bit more tanned than me, the silver wire in combination with the aqua coloured crystals looked superb.

Happy Birthday!

They say it's your birthday....

And I know you're gonna sing this one today :-)

Scarabé

That's what the manufacturer of these bugle beads calls their colour. I think it's the exact same shade as my birdy's tail.
Anyway, I took this photo using my new macro lens and of course a tripod and am very pleased with the way the bokeh turned out :-)

And oh yea, I made the necklace myself.

Impure Evil

I have a black heart... does that mean I'm evil?


Because of the short distance between the two and the fact that camera and heart weren't perfectly parallel, only the the lower half of the heart is really sharp with an f9 aperture.

The blessed and the beautiful

No, I didn't make the jewels you see here but I was sent them, my friend and photo guru brought them back from India for me. Thank you again :-)

Amber Sun

At some point, I will have a third blog, showing the jewellery I make and selling it. The time is not quite ripe yet, so I will post something here: a ring I made with silver plated wire and amber. I love amber, I think it is solid sun :-). And I like the bokeh in this picture.