Here are some terrible snaps of some of my newest work freshly made, drying and awaiting sanding and filing:
birds and butterfly necklace components
I’ve been going through a bird phase ever since last fall – I can’t help myself, I love them!
necklace components and one bracelet set
My new favorite though are these peacock feathers! I may have to keep one of them… There’s a nice deep blue sapphire in the eye of the feather on the right. I’ve also really been excited about geometric shapes lately and I did a whole series of them for necklaces and earrings. The three oval bracelet components in the lower right corner of the above photo are textured with my piped silver design as shown but on the back they are textured with the spiral texture that you see in the rectangle components to the left of them.
butterflies and flowers
geometric shapes
modern Etruscan shapes for necklace
modern embellished Etruscan shapes for necklace
These elements are finished on the other side with my piped silverwork (like the oval bracelet components).
square elements for necklace (with tanzanite)
These elements are textured with a paisley pattern on the reverse side.
I’ve also made 65 new pairs of earrings in similar motifs and I have sanded and filed over half of them (43 pairs). Tonight I hope to fire at least two loads and finish firing tomorrow. Then I will tumble everything during the rest of the week and begin making actual jewelry out of these components over the weekend.