So many new pictures of jewelry, sit back and browse…
Some days I love my job so much, and today is one of those days…working on commissioned pieces that inspired the hell out of me. I’ll start off slow and work my way up to my current favourite piece…
A 45 rpm record adaptor in hammer brushed copper. This is actual size – though I am not sure yet if it would actually work – it is meant to be a pendant, but it would be pretty nifty if it could work too. I will be experimenting over the next few days. For the pendant though, I am still debating whether or not to run the leather thong through the centre hole or to solder on a nice little bail…
Next, a new Alice pendant! I love this particular Tenniel etching, one of my favourites from the Alice books, so when my client chose it, I was very excited. And even better was the quote that she chose for the back.
I love working with people who have wonderful ideas – it makes my work so much more interesting. To be able to work on a piece that I would love to wear, or that I would be proud to have my name attached to is just the best kind of work. It is so disheartening to make something to a client’s specifications that you know is going to be ugly, but the client wants it and so you comply. I always want to add the condition that they will not tell anybody where they got it… of course, I don’t, and luckily that doesn’t happen too often! Anyways, I modified the Alice pendant design slightly by adding a soldered double sterling bail. It made it much sturdier, and in my opinion, spiffier too.
And last, but not least, my very favourite of the day… a Mayan calendar, out of time, steampunk, industrial, vicorian, ancient and modern both, pendant. I am in love with it. I would like to be able to lay claim to its entirety – but really this is a collaboration with my client, whose idea was something along the lines of my clockworks time pendants, but with a Mayan theme, and how time is a manmade construct.
The jewelry design was inspired by the calendar, and the idea of circles within circles – mixing styles from different time periods, to make a time pice that was essentially free of time – to which time did not exist, and yet was wholly absorbed with time.
This is one of those pieces that it is hard to let go of, I got attached to it while making it. Partly because I love its idea, but also because it was a royal pain in the ass, and I had to think and re-think its construction. It challenged my limitations and made me think outside of my ordinary comfort zone. I evolved in my craft during its construction.
