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.
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!
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
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.
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