at the candy shop......

soon available, stay tuned!

ring ring..........

Off and on I take an order for beaded Rings. 

Here´s the result.....Two unique  rings - glass beads, sterling, silver, wood.

not available in my shops, but possibly made to order.

prototypes

clasps for my mandala pendants

for silver models I often do a prototype to get the right dimension
Being a haptically person, this cardboard thing works perfect for me!

a bit too big, the silver version should be way smaller I guess.

manufacturing earring findings

Lots of earring findings are needed for the new Collection

...and every piece is made by hand

I really admire people with perfect manicured hands, mine never will be....

A peek into the garden from my workspace

studio news

Twisted #2

This is going to be a new earring collection ( I meant to make two or three, but there are too many beautiful color combinations in my head, so far more might emerge !

studio news

It´s time to recycle some silver scrap!

and this time I tried to make real sheet silver out of my scrap (which almost overstrained my plate roll ).

melting in the charcoal , hammering, intermediate annealing, rolling out repeatedly, and in the end - sheet silver !

The real snowflakes won´t be long in coming... in the meanwhile here are some snowflakes that won´t melt.

available here 

Studio news

...on my working table:

Shapes and tassels

Nuggets - silver upcycling

Beim Fertigen der Ohrring Brisuren fällt jede Menge an Silber Abschnitt an, den ich von Zeit zu Zeit verarbeite, Diesmal sind es Silberringe.

silver scrap - upcycling - every now and again

This time I decided to make some nugget rings.

               

Friday Facets

Friday Facets is a blog collaboration :

Great for meeting fellow artists, learning about new techniques ....it has just started, so if you are interested to connect your blog,  here you can join !

Next Copper project

riveting with silver

the rivets must be hammered from both sides 

 

 ...to be finished next time!
have a wonderful long weekend with lots of asparagus and sauce hollandaise ......at least this is what I intend to have !

Raw

Playing around with copper 

I have to order new oxidizer, mine is used up, so I couldn´t bring out the surface as spectacular as I intended...maybe some pics later, when I show some more copper projects.

Brooch a week/12
The half lentil shape is an inexhaustible source for creating jewelry...
It is an archaic form,  protective shield, .. vessel,....