Monday, March 29, 2010

What I'm working on...


Its been a good week, lots of fun happenings and lots of time to create. My other half was in the USA on business all week, which logically should result in me having less time, as I pick up "his jobs" and run the kids around more often. But somehow it doesn't work that way. Which I must admit I kind of like. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that :)

I picked out a few special pieces of glass from my collection this week, gorgeous colours that were sick of sitting in a bottle on the shelf, waiting to be framed and adorned. The piece above came from one of the Hawaiin Islands-a couple of summers ago I traded some finished pieces of jewelry for sea glass gathered in Hawaii by  a gentlemen from Lunenburg. The piece above is a beautiful orange red with a little star on top, so very like a sunset.


These little earrings were forged from silver wire, and are meant to be leaves, although they turned out a little less leaf-like than I had in mind. Next time I will include a vein in the centre of the leaf.



I'm still in love with brass, and it photographs beautifully, contrasting with the aqua glass.



And finally, my favourite, a calla lily hand forged from sterling silver cradles a drop of brilliant red sea glass, this one from a Nova Scotia beach. Its been fun making the flowers, and I plan to do lots more botanical jewelry over the next few months. Here's hoping this week will be a good one for us all!

5 comments:

  1. I think the sea lily with the red glass has to be my favorite. All your new creations are stunning!

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  2. What beautiful work! Do you ever make pieces from a client's piece of glass?

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  4. Oops, trying again...

    Thanks Judith, we sure do, here's a link to a post where I made necklaces for a lady with sea glass she had gathered for her daughters: http://seaglassdesigns.blogspot.com/2009/11/english-sea-glass.html

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