Studio news : Tassel earrings in luminous colors

available here and here

Appetizer

summer collection - tassel earrings in luminous colors! ....to be listed next week

Brooch #13

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,....

Friday facets

On my working table:
Tassel earrings in Tangerine

  

making these tassel earrings is a time consuming process, so mostly they are made to order....

beads from "Fohfinhas Perlenstübchen"

tassel ear studs in grey available here 

To find more friday facets, hop over here
It´s a new blog hop hosted by Susanne, have a look at her amazing dying ideas!

Friday facets - Nescessity is the mother of invention

....... (just got the meaning of Frank Zappa´s "Mothers of invention" - Mütter des Fortschritts ?!

since I´m using my online dictionary a lot, and improving my english, I often have these "light bulb moments", It always sufficed to know the english name, never thought about the german translation. "Canned heat - Hitze in Dosen" ?! ..................ok, this doesn´t belong here at all.....

 As I need to bend my ear wires, and I like to have different hooks for different styles, I had to create some tools over time.

Here you can see some of my patched together -  tools, ...the last one is made of a darning mushroom

see others friday facets here and participate if you like!