Last Show

Another necklace from the cages series. Last show tomorrow at Ramsay Art in the Hood! 

Getting ready for fall

Informal shot of a new silver ring with dichroic glass cabochon. 

i'm itching to show the piece i designed for the convention michelle is hosting...but i've been instructed to WAIT.  ugh, i'm no good at that.  here's another new piece with a basic stone setting.  sterling silver, beach stone and chrysophase beads.

it's a basic setting, but i still have a long way to go in perfecting my technique.

and if you're in calgary stampeding...yeehaw!

Upcycling

New necklace and earrings using recycled gift cards and sterling silver. 

BAW52/18

BAW #18: bit of a departure on this one.  used a slice of raw wood and just a few dots with two distressed granulation accents.  think i'll have to explore this series a bit more.  really like that i can still see the grain of the wood etc.  choosing colors for the raw wood vs. my usual black wood was also a challenge.  cheers!

BAW52/9 & 10

these are smaller brooches, about the size of a quarter.  all sterling and fine silver with two small beach stones riveted on to #10.

BAW52/3

my third brooch of the week is sort of part of a set including the first two. this one also has a recycled gift card panel, but with this one i created a collage with slivers of cards before placing it in the 'window'.

#16

some of you may remember when i participated in ring-a-week 2011.  for 2013, i joined the brooch-a-week group on flickr.  i got a weeeee bit of a slow start.  i just now posted my first brooch for week one!  oh well, better late than never.  so my BAW52/1 is the brooch on the far right.  the other two will get posted in the next couple of days.  all three are layers of recycled gift cards, sterling silver and fine silver rivets.

RAW #50 - Almost There!

only two more rings to go before the end of the year!

this is another of the deco granulated rings, this time with red anodized aluminum.

SOLD

RAW #36 & #37

i am finally caught up on my rings, but am far behind on my photography.

this is another layered window design using recycled gift cards and sterling silver sheet.

anyone care to guess where this unique gift card came from?

a complete departure for me, any form of stone setting. this is a montana agate held between two sheets of silver using rivets and tubing.

RAW #28, 29 and 30!

bear with me! we are going out of town tomorrow, off to visit the parentals, and i wanted to get #28, 29 and 30 posted before i left. prepare for a swack of photos!

RAW #28: more ocd dots with a lovely pinky-peach ceramic flower i got off etsy.

RAW #29: a layered windows piece with 2 different recycled gift cards. sterling silver with rivets.

RAW #30: and yet another ocd dots in pinks with a touch of orange, recycled gift card and sterling rivets and heart.

tried to go a little more moderate in size with these! see you when i get back!

RAW #13

I had a ton of fun with this ring! It is two-sided, one for day, one for night and features a figure in the 'window'. Though the wood stands quite tall, almost 3" off the top of the finger, the ring sits very comfortably and upright when on the hand. The wood is riveted onto the sterling silver ring assembly.