We hope that you have enjoyed your holidays with the ones that you love and the ones that love you.
Tonight I'm playing in clay, developing some new techniques for classes and wondering "What if????".
Inspired by hand made jewelry on the web and the beauty of ribbon embroidery, the next project will either be called "Sliver flowers" or "Faux Ribbon Embroidery". Note the first name is SLIVER, as in a sliver of pie; not SILVER, as in silver and gold.
The flowers and leaves are tiny slivers of clay that are gently rolled to shape. When finished, it reminded me of silk ribbon embroidery where many of the shapes are tiny slivers of ribbon, shaped by the stitchery. We'll see. You will hear it here.
The first pendant was done in pastels and posted on my flickr site. It was posted on Etsy, but was lost in the huge pool of lovely products.
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The next attempt was to make another pendant with a different feeling.
I learned more about beading at a guild field trip to a beading store. This pendant has a jade necklace with tiny gold tone seed beads, AB glass beads, two lavender beads whose names I have forgotten and gold tone spacers.
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The earrings are in progress.
Just for fun, I experimented on different bits of clay, like ribbons to make this little wisteria pendant.
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The pendant is only about 3/4" tall without the eye pins and pale pink drops.
Have fun and I hope you have lots of time to create and play.
1 comment:
The snow is wondrous, and I'm glad I get to see it through your lens and not in person.
Your pendants are lovely. Thanks for sharing both.
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