Week 30 Pink Brooch

My mother has been asking me to make her a brooch. One of her favorite blouses has a stain on it and she wanted something to cover it :). I don't have any experiences with pins or brooches but this is what I came up with. A pink (my mothers favorite color) round brooch losely inspired on an old style of Dutch jewelry called a Zweeuwse Knop (knop means knot). I wanted it to look kinda classical. It is made with lots of wire, Freshwater Pearls, tiny faceted and round Rose Quarts and tiny silver beads. While I was making it it gave me lots more ideas how to use this technique for pendants and other jewelry so I'll be trying out more of it.

Week 29 Iza's pendant

Again not on theme this week. But Micky sent me a copy of Step By Step Wire Jewelry (thanks Micky!) and I really wanted to try Iza's tutorial. It was the hardest thing I ever did. I had to start over twice and it took me lots of hours but I'm really happy with the result. Iza thanks so much for that great tutorial! I'm sure I'm going to use this technique again.

Week 28 Waterfall

I don't know why but I got in my head that this weeks theme was Waterfall. I just found out it was 3 weeks ago LOL. I think it's because I saw the movie "Dragon"fly this week that has a waterfall in it and I thought about the theme and than started wondering how I would make a waterfall. Shows you how my mind works. Very strange why didn't it go with the dragon bit? :). So here's my waterfall. It's made with 30 gauge wire to represent the water. Tiny silver beads and faceted moonstone represent the foam you see at the botom of the fall. It is slightly curved which is hard to see on the scan.

First YOJ entry week 27 Sea Bracelet

Well here it is my first piece for the YOJ project. This is a practise bracelet made
with Eni's Coiled Bangle
tutorial. The wire and silver beads are all fake. But the stones are real. I used shells, moss agate, jade and some more. It took me about 10 hours to make this piece. Initially I wanted to cut it up and do over in real silver wire but my mother saw it and immidiately put it on her arm and I never got it back!