Locket

I havent been Idle for the last couple of weeks I have been busy with this. Once I started making letter stamps for my name I came up with this idea. And I needed a lot more stamps which took a long time.

These are the letters of our names. I know its not obvious but I am not an obvious kind of person I figure the only person who needs to know the significance of the words is the person wearing the piece. I am going to make a loop in loop chain to make up for it. and put a family photo probably sepia with resin on the inside.

hand made bead earrings.

Here are the earrings I made to match the the necklace made with my first bead .

Oh dear bye bye bead

I am so frustrated with myself.
When I did my first real jewellery course 2 years ago we made a bead as one of our projects. and I love that bead. I wear it on a piece of tigertail all the time. Its simple and I made it.
Anyway I decided to make a pair of earrings to match.
So I made two perfect silver beaded earrings. I finished them and they are beautiful and shiny. They would go perfectly with my first bead but my first bead is 2 years old and not so shiny anymore - it also has a few scratches that look suspiciously like file marks. So......... I decided to polish it up. and wouldnt you know I dinged my original bead! So now I have a pair of earrings and no necklace to match. I think I am going to ding the original bead all over with my dapping punches and possibly add a few balls and holes to match my dinged up earrings I already own and make another necklace to match my new earrings.

Link to the dinged earring story

home made stamps

It's an unusually cold day in Durban today (about 23 degrees celcius).

So I spent a couple of hours making a few stamps.

flush set pendant

We have just spent a wonderful weekend at my parents farm. Before I went I made a pendant for my sister (her birthday was in February) I never had time to take a decent picture but this will give you a rough idea of what it looked like.

Its made out of 2mm sterling plate and garnets.

second attempt at anticlastic forming

Ok so my first attempt was way too big so its still unfinished.

This was my second try - it proved much harder then the first one.

I guess all I need to do is practice practice practice!!!

sinusoidal stake

I find Aticlastic forms quite fascinating. Art jewellery magazine had a bangle project in the January magazine. The problem is they use a sinusoidal stake to form one.
I dont have one of those so I rushed off to Jewel tec to buy one - have money will shop -
they never had one but I wanted one so I showed the article to Andrew (my husband) and managed to convince him that it wouldnt be that diffucult to make one. Which he did and I have a new toy it just needs some refining which is a lot of sanding but that is my job and its a lot of work so I am going to do that after I have expoerimented with it.
Today I attempted to make a copper cuff - UUgh not as easy as it looks. The cuff is still unfinished.