Marquise Series: Earrings 2 (2010) Sterling silver Constructed L 10 cm x W 0.8 cm This week I decided to go back to and adapt the project I made at the beginning of this Year of Jewelry. I wanted to explore it a bit more. The idea was to create a “string” of marquise shapes. ...
Marquise Series: Pendant 8 (2010) Sterling silver, fine silver, tourmaline Constructed, cold-joined, woven L 5.0 cm x W 2.25 cm x D 1.0 cm One of my new year’s resolutions was to start using a Job Jar. My family and friends, who know me very well, know that I’m hopeless about housework. I think it...
Marquise Series: Bead Cap 1 (2010) Sterling silver, fine silver Constructed, cold-joined, woven L 2.7 cm x W 2.6 cm Last week’s project was about going beyond a simple marquise shape to a compound shape. This week, I’m going a step further and moving into working in 3D. The original germ for this piece was...
Marquise Series: Pendant 7 (2009) Sterling silver Constructed, cold-joined L 5.2 cm X W 3.3 cm I made this pendant in the early part of the week, knowing that the first project for the new YOJ was due today. Up to now, I’ve been working with marquise shapes as single pieces, either as pendants on...
The turn of the new year means that a new Year of Jewelry is beginning. The push to get the previous year’s YOJ projects done has gotten me fired up again in terms of making. While challenging, the thing I like most about the YOJ is how productive it makes me feel. The project forces...
Okay, time to take a deep, cleansing breath and look back at 2009. When I read over the post I wrote in Dec. 2008 laying out my goals for the year, I see that I was able to stay reasonably true to them. . Goal #1, making a piece every week, was not met. Unfortunately,...
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