New Jewelry

Here are four of the new necklaces I've recently been working on. I sure wish I was as quick at them as painting. I'll spend all this time putting something together and then look at it an think "hmmm....this isn't working for me". Then I want to take it all apart. If it were a painting I could just repaint an area or color and somehow that seems so much easier. Good thing I'm still having fun. I was looking forward to being able to add a copper patina on some of the silver soldered parts but no matter what I tried it just didn't work well at all. Black however is easy. Just in case anyone ever wants something they see in black.

More Jewelry

Here is the rest of the new pendants. These seemed to take forever for some reason. I suppose I'm just getting fussier and fussier. I have to always remind myself that different people like different things and that not everything has to be MY favorite.

I am in love with the little taupe mother of pearl buttons. I found them online. They are antique shoe buttons. I'm torn between saving them and using them.
Gave up trying to photograph this dome pendant on the black background as the reflections are really hard to minimize I finally got the above shot which shows the image pretty well. You can also see the green color of the sea glass better.

New jewelry

Almost ready for the tour. I feel like a split personality in the studio lately. I'm trying to have so many little things available that I'm going in 5 different directions at once.

Anyhow in order to make room I stop painting then start on the jewelry and do things in batches. Here is part of the latest batch.

If you are in the are I hope you plan on visiting me this weekend on the tour!

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