Bunny Rabbits Necklaces

Here are a few photos of some Easter themed necklaces I made for my boyfriend's three nieces.  I had a hand full of adorable little vintage bunny rabbit charms in my stash so I decided to put them to good use.  I adorned the wee bunnies with wasabi hued Czech glass flowers, fuchsia candy jade faceted rounds, and ivory seed pearls.  I love them and secretly want one for myself...  good thing I have one more bunny charm! :)

PMC pendants

This past Saturday I took a 1-day workshop class on Precious Metal Clay (PMC) at University of the Arts. This stuff is awesome- it's basically clay with silver particles in it, and when you fire it in a kiln the clay goes away and leaves 99% pure silver behind. You can form it and put textures in it and add glass and stones. I think I'm in love with it and hope to explore it more. I made these two pendants that I love, all in this one class!

Polymer Clay and Vintage Brass Necklace

This past week I was finally able to string the handmade beads I posted back in July.  The finished product is a double stranded necklace composed of polymer clay beads and vintage brass components.  I blogged about it here.  Hope you are all enjoying Philly's autumn-like weather!  I know I am : )

New work

Hello!  I'd like to share a few images of the earrings I've been working on these past few days.

Silver Tree Ring

I (mostly) finished my Silver Tree Ring! Much to my relief, it came out pretty much as I was imagining it. I still have some minor filing, sanding, and polishing to do, but I couldn't wait to share it! The upper left photo is after I started wrapping the tree branches around but before I sawed off the extra bits and soldered the branches to the main part.

Silver tree ring

Here's my second project from the Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing class I'm taking at University of the Arts- a silver ring. I've finished sawing the shape out and have a bit more filing and polishing to do, and then it will be wrapped around. The oval part goes on top of the finger and the tree bits wrap around over top of that. I'll post another picture when it's finished! Hopefully it'll turn out as planned- I must have made fifteen different paper mockups to figure out the design! Plus the sawing part took forever- I'm still not very good at sawing, and I cut my fingers twice trying to saw out all those little branches. I now have the utmost respect for jewelers who make tiny things that are hand-sawed!

Brass pendant

I finished the pendant I started a few weeks ago in my Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing class at UArts! I'm really happy with how it turned out. Next up- a silver ring.

Metal

I'm taking a class at University of the Arts in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing! I already make a lot of jewelry, but it mostly involves simple gluing, beading, and wiring techniques. I wanted to learn some proper metalsmithing skills too, and this class seems like it's going to be perfect. Here's a pendant I'm working on- it's going to be two layers of brass soldered together, with one of the layers oxidized. I'm still not very good at sawing metal so my lines are kind of wavery, but that's ok since I'm going for a really organic look anyway! (You can see a computer printout towards the top of the photo of my design for the pendant).

new necklaces!

Here are some of the necklaces I've finished recently. I don't really like this scan so I'm going to experiment with photographing them on different backgrounds, but I wanted to share anyway!

I've donated this sparkly dragon fly sun catcher to a raffle to raise money for breast cancer. Visit my blog http://www.intuitionjeanne.blogspot.com/ to find out how you can enter the raffle to win a basket containing my dragon fly, plus lots of other cool prizes -- like restaurant gift certificates, etc.

Hair Comb + Necklace

Made these little lovelies at the Handmade Philly Meet n Greet this past weekend...I never work w/ beads or jewelry so it was great trying something new.

Vintage Button Bracelets

1st post in a while from me. Between going to Moore College and working, both full-time, it has been hard to find time to update anything online! But, I still have time to work on my new jewelry collection.








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new lenses

Some new lens pendants in progress. I'm almost out of the kind of vintage optician lenses with the metal bails, so I'm experimenting with some regular eyeglass lenses.

Like a Moth to a Flame

This sterling silver chainmaille bracelet was constructed using the butterfly weave, but the shape of the "wings" looks more like a moth to me. The clasp didn't photograph well but it's gorgeous - bright sterling inlaid with a fiery labradorite cabochon.

I made the bracelet for my husband - I gave it to him yesterday as one of his gifts to celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary.

I have a brand new line of handmade chainmaille jewelry coming out for Spring 2010; you can see a preview by checking out my blog.

Relic01- Dawn

I've been feeling so stuck lately. I'm sure everyone who makes anything creative knows the feeling and how frustrating it is. Well, I've been slogging away at these collages and just not feeling very into it. Somehow I almost forgot that I make jewelry too! I think it was because my jewelry materials were in a horrible mess. But as often the case, straightening things up led to discovering some cool things I had stashed away and thinking of some new ideas. It was nice to get away from the collages and actually finish a project in one evening for a change!

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of necklaces using found odds and ends and as much recycled stuff as I can incorporate, and loosely based on the idea of "relics from lost worlds". Maybe past worlds, maybe future worlds, maybe imaginary worlds? Maybe I've been watching too much old British sci-fi involving visits to strange planets?

This one uses an old rusty washer I found on the street, and some acrylic/plastic beads from an old necklace belonging to my grandmother. Normally I avoid plastic like the plague because I think it can look cheap and tacky, but these beads are interesting enough to be an exception!

I love coral

When my brother asked me to make a coral necklace as a birthday gift for a friend, I had no idea how much I would fall in love with this material. It's so bright a color that I really didn't understand its depth and substance. Plus it's very light and you can wear a lot of it with little weight. I like it with silver, as in the Hill Tribe silver pendants on these pieces, but I might try it with gold.....maybe.

A Tree Necklace in Honor of Arbor Day 2009

For as far back as I can remember my family has celebrated Arbor Day. When I was little the festivities were orchestrated by my Great Aunt, a clothing designer and seamstress who grew up on a farm in a family of seventeen kids, and my Godfather, a writer and avid gardener. Every year we’d join the community tree plantings - I always chose white birch, dogwoods and fruit trees - and also work on our own gardens.

We usually started our seeds in February, and by April we’d be thinning them out, trading varieties, sharing with our neighbors… It is thrilling to me that I make a living as a jewelry designer, astounding even, but I am most proud of the fact that I can grow things. I recently planted a new fig tree, and the photo at right is a sampling of my heirloom tomato seedlings.

Some of my favorite jewelry designs combine my love of shiny things and gardening. In honor of Arbor Day I made the necklace shown above - it features an artisan lampwork glass bead with raised glass trees that have swirled brown and olive trunks and vivid orange foliage. A deep blue sky is visible through the leaves.

The bead is a hung from a necklace of lapis and orange carnelian rounds that perfectly match the tree bead, and I added Bali sterling silver accents to make the colors “pop”. I like for my jewelry to look good coming and going, so the back of the necklace is embellished too. You can see the whole piece here.

Arbor Day is this Friday, April 24, 2009 - go plant a tree!

Before and After - Chainmaille Earrings

My name is Glamorosi; this is my first week participating in the Philly Makes project. I am a full-time jewelry designer with several online shops – you can see them all and find out more about my work on my blog.

For the theme “Before and After” I made two-tone chainmaille earrings with rose gold plated centers and sterling silver borders in a weave called European 4-in-1. Every single ring is opened and closed by hand, with special attention paid to the closures so that no gaps or sharp edges remain. I love making chainmaille of all sizes, but I especially enjoy the discipline of working with small rings - it is both relaxing and addictive.

The earrings measure 2.5 inches long from the top of the ear wire; you can get a closer view by clicking on the photo.

New necklaces!

I finally finished some new vintage optician test lens pendants! Other things kept getting in the way, so I was happy to finally get some of these done this past weekend.





These and some of my other work are featured on the online juried exhibition site papernstitch until April 26. Please go check it out and vote for me too! Thanks!