Gimme One Good Reason
So here’s what I’ve gotten finished in the last few days. I have several other pieces I am working on for very lovely people which I will hopefully get done (or near done) this week. At least enough to get some more pictures up.
Mermaid — Water colour by Warwickk Goble (who rocks my socks)
I think the pearls are called “peacock”… I don’t know. They’re freshwater pearls dyed to a particular colour that I think it kinda pretty. Also, there’s a lot of swarovski crystal in this. Mmm…. crystals. Basically, I wanted it to look a bit like a sunken treasure chest with all the pealrs and jewels just sorta hanging out. Yeah. I think I achieved my goal on this.
Absinthe — advertisement by somebody (who also rocks my socks)
This is very different from anything else I’ve done before, mostly because I didn’t bead the entire thing. Jackie wanted understated, and understated I think is what she got. I’m rather pleased with it. If I’d had more time and money, I would have used real amber, but the glass is a pretty colour anyway and looks right.
I’m gonna show you why they call me Lightning
Somehow last night, I stumbled on several vintage absinthe ads.
As I understand it, good absinthe tastes something like liquorice, which I hate, so I probably would not like it ever.
On the other hand, I love the ads for it.
I heart the ads for it.
I heart the colours.
I heart the red heads.
Then I found these turn of the century watercolours while searching for etchings of my favorite fairy tale characters.
I heart fairy tales.
Have I ever mentioned that I also heart mermaids?
I heart mermaids.
So here, for your enjoyment and/or criticism, are some hazy photos of pendants which will eventually be part of necklaces.
…And then it was like, holy shit
So today at work I was hit–literally–with a brilliant idea.
It was kinda like in Field of Dreams when the voice starts talking to that Waterworld guy and he’s like, “Ooo… I never thought of it like that. Thanks disembodied voice!”
Actually, I think I only saw that movie once and I thought it was stupid and didn’t pay any attention to it, and really, when I think about it, this was nothing like that movie because it involved neither disembodied voices nor baseball in any way, shape or form.
It went a lot more like this: I was sitting at my desk, planning events like crazy, when this idea came up on my right and slapped me in the face.
I’m not kidding.
Anyway, the idea was: make your own molds.
Now, usually I can do this just fine by not cleaning the shower out for a week, but this is a little different.
See, I’ve been wrestling with how to make pendants that don’t involve studio space and small kilns and things that generally will make a large mess/burn my house down. It’s harder than one would think.
But then I thought, what about regular modeling clay?… I mean, it kinda sucks to make jewelry out of. But, and this is the most important part O Best Beloved, if I made a mold of the shape I wanted in that crappy clay and filled it with epoxy, I would get the shape I want and avoid having to use crappy clay for a base or, indeed, burning my house down.
Since my parents are coming to visit this weekend, this is probably not the time to start experimenting (since my workshop is my living room), but anyway, just to give anyone who cares an idea of what I’m up to.
Yeah.
