Pink Twist

Small wire wrapped pendant. There's a pink stone set in a tube in the middle. It's petite but dainty and very light. It's a nice piece to wear when you want to have jewellery but not anything that's too big. I plan on making earings to match.

Copper Copper Copper

Several copper rings with black agates (Or onyx as some call them) and some hammered copper rings. I really like the punched, hammered and polished one, it's one of my favourites and very comfortable.

Silver Origami Crane

I tried several times to make an origami pendant. I had tried some flowers and cranes. The first time it didn't go so well (since I cast them in paper) but I decided to try again and add hot wax to the paper. This way, the paper is stronger since it absorbs the hot wax and my forms stay mainly the same! It worked and I was really happy since the origami crane is my favourite.

Bijou Articulé

This is one of the most intricate and complicated pieces that I have made. Actually, it might be the only intricate and complicated thing that I've designed so far.

The point of this project was simply to make a piece of jewellery that moves. With articulations. We had free will and choice and could do anything we wanted as long as it moved in one way or another.

Now, not that that wasn't enough already, I decided I should try making something that could open and close but still look nice both ways. By the time my drawing and mesures were done and I was sitting at my bench, I thought I had signed my deathwish. I had never done anything as such.

So here is my pendant, which you can wear three ways!



The first picture is what you see when you wear the pendant at it's natural state(closed).
In the second picture is the back of the pendant when it is closed.

To open the pendant you turn the lock and then lift it so that the panel can bend and open which gives the fourth picture, what you see when you wear the pendant half open.


Lastly, when you unfold the last panel, it gives you the long pendant that we see in picture 5. In picture 6 we can see the back of the pendant (with lock closed).

Whether you want to wear it with a simple outfit or want it to occupy your cleavage space with your evening dress, the pendant fits!

Décoration De Surface

Silver pendant (yet again, as you can obviously notice I'm a pendant-making kind of woman) in which I had to use one or more of the many different surface decoration techniques. (Sorry for the red cameralight in the picture)

The shaft of the arrow is hammered and the arrowhead is a laminated texture.

The disk is oxydated and and the words and pentographed.

Basically, you turn the disk and the arrow ends pointing a mood or state of mind. The point is that you don't have bad choices so you can't be anything other than Happy, Confident, Strong or Serene!

Bijou Complexe

I'm not sure exactly what I had in mind when I started working on this piece but it turned out to be indian/tribe-ish and not so bad afterall. I must say that when we were assigned the project to invent jewellery with new and unusual componants, I spent most of my time looking up different techniques et methods instead of actually working on my piece. We had to incorporate minimum two different metals also.

When I found the knife cut obsidians (48th gem and mineral show in montreal) I bought them without really knowing what to do with them.

There's a little wire wrap going on the right side. and I used three different kind of woods to make the litle blocks. (For the name of me, I can't remember their titles.)

On the left side there's a little coloured Titanium tile. In the middle is a small piece of reticulated silver, donated by Marie Piña graciously :] in exchange for some Mokume Gane that I made (home-made with copper, brass and silver solder). A piece of which orns the right side.

Christmas Pearls

I made this pearl necklace for my mother to wear during christmas season. It really isn't everyday wear since it's green and red with gold accents. This is actually the first time I string pearls to make a necklace. The knots aren't so bad but it's the ending knot that I missed. (We don't actually see that in the picture hehe)

My Not So Secrets

A used old shoe box
As big as can be
Holds everything
Known about me
Things from my present
Signs from my past
Thoughts for my future
Sealed in at last
My not so secrets
As soon as formed
Fresh out of my head
In a box so worn
They lay for a while
Safe are they not
They lay there forever
In my old shoe box

Butterfly Pendant

Small pendant I did in school. The picture's not that great because of the lighting but I haven't found a nice spot yet to photograph jewellery. (And I find silver is hard to photograph correctly.)

Water Lily - Fleur de Lotus

This is a photograph I took a few years ago. The pond was filled with those lotus flowers but I photographed only one. There are so many different interpretations of the lotus flower, also known as water lilies. Egyptians say it symbolizes strength and power. Others say that it symbolizes the purity of heart and mind, that is represents long life, health, honor and good luck.

This Water Lily pendant is an exercise we had to do in school. I really love this piece because I had fun doing it and I added the three little green stones as an extra. I haven't kept many of my exercises but this one I will keep forever.

Une Image Vaut Mille Mots

En un instant
Simple et précis
Le déclic sonne
La photo prise
Et les mille mots
Qui la décrivent
La rend plus belle
Et la fait vivre

Juste un regard
Sur cette photo
Voit les mille mots
Que l'image vaut
Les souvenirs
Toutes les histoires
Les pleurs, les rires
Qu'on peut y voir

Une trahison
Une belle journée
Un seul moment
D'éternité
Une naissance
Ou bien une mort
Une solitude
Une goutte d'espoir

Une image vaut
Des milliers de mots
Mais différents
A chaque fois
Qu'on la regarde
Au fils des ans
Qu'on la regarde
Des millions de fois

Le déclic sonne
La terre s'arrête
Mais les mille mots
Tournent dans ma tête
Le temps se fige
La photo prise
Tout le monde
Recommence à vivre

En regardant
Cette photo
Je me souviens
De tout ces mots
Mais bien différente
Est l'histoire
Que tu peut lire
Rien qu'a la voir

Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil

I absolutly take NO credit for this picture but I'm posting it up anyways because it's my sister and her two friends. I just thought it was awesome how they represented the famous japanese proverb. this sight has been represented so many times thoughout history!

Caribou Silver Bookmark

A gift I gave to my father. One of my very first personal projects from school. The quality of the picture isn't great but at the time I had no idea how to photograph silver. (I still don't haha)

Slowly Erasing

This is the most recent poem I've written.

Slowly Erasing

A mental list of people
Formed itself in my mind
For different reasons, different how's
And all at different times
Some are ripped out, they've hurt me so
Some blanked, they've stayed behind
Some disappeared and left a hole
And some are underlined
Some I've scratched out numerous times
And wrote them down again
Some of them marred, I had no choice
And some written in pen
Some leave involuntarily
And some I've had no say
Some left me there despite me
Some just won't go away
Another one yet going
The process is so hard
And I'm slowly erasing
A name that once was starred
My mental list of people
It's sad but it is true
I think as I'm erasing
Am I gone on yours too?

Bijou Serti De Pierres

That was the name of the project I had to do in class (Since I don't have much inspiration for post titles, I tend to not think too much about them). Unfortunately, I also tend to do huge and complicated things so it doesn't look all that good as a finished product. Most of the students in my class are ingenious and amazing jewellers. My pendant isn't set yet but I stuck the stones on to pretend so. My friend took two pictures in different lights so here they are!

Welcome to Aden

Welcome to Aden, my personal space!

Aden is actually a male irish name meaning ''little fire'' Since I used ''little fires'' to work on some of my projects, I decided this would be a perfect title!

I created this space so that I could post pictures of my art, drawings, jewellery, poetry, etc. Picture quality isn't always good but I deal with what I have and get! I experiment alot and what you see may not exactly be pretty but I hope you enjoy my work.

Vanessa