Sunday, November 28, 2010
electroformed hydrangea Rings
I was not sure about these electroformed hydrangeas when I was making jewellery and trying to incorporate them into designs, but after usin 2 of them to make rings that fit together I am pleased with how they look on the hand. My first hesitations were beacuse I was not sure if the flowers would look too stiff or "formal in metal" but now I like the way the flowers look as if they have been captured.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
More Hydrangea pieces for an order
So I have finished the order for Denmark and have learnt alot. From having to ship the order, to receiving a foreign currency into your account, to bubble wrapping and to communicating, there is alot of info to find out and is not as easy as it may seem, but once you have done it once it will be alot easier for the next time! I was really weary about shipping my jewellery just using the speed services at the normal SAPO but turns out they are actually organised and you can insure the items that you send. I guess this will make life easier for my etsy shop as I now have some information on shipping costs/postage procedures!
From first order that I sent to denmark to this order now I feel that my jewellery has improved a whole lot. For instance, my catches on the bracelets were made with more awarness on the safety element of the bracelet to insure that it does not come off once it is on the wrist. I used a wider range of sizes of hydrangeas which gave the bracelet more of a feel of flowers being around your wrist and and I used alot of small flowers which i find distinguish the shape of the stylized hydrangea better, but there needs to be a mix of sizes which is what I did.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Another order from Denmark, Yay!
I have got another order from Denmark for my Hydrangea jewellery so the fun begins again. the shop needs the jewellery asap so I have started today! Here is my beginings 
I love the look of these hydrangeas when the paper burns away!
I love the look of these hydrangeas when the paper burns away!Fixing a pendent
I made this pendent last year and a sweet lady bought it but by mistake it broke so i fixed it for her! her name is also Michelle, funny that. 
An order for little people silver charms
I had an order for some more little charms. They fit in quite well with the little silver people section I am doing in my B-tech.
fOOD
I have made little Marie biscuits! I found out that the generic name for this biscuit is marie and they are made all over the world! Marie biscuits have bben my favourite biscuit since I can remember!
creating hydrangeas from seperate petals
here are my 5 petal hydrangeas in the making, I solded each petal on last week and still need to finish the last 2. 
Hydrangeas
I cant beleive it, I thought I was the only jeweller who makes real hydrangeas out of metal but it turns out Im not. This jeweller is doing the same thing as I am doing but I also use electroforming. look http://www.etsy.com/transaction/28202959 .
hand made or electroformed
So there is a big difference between the hand made hydrangeas and the electroformed ones. I do enjoy bith but the have two very different feel about them. I think it is kind of funny that my electro formed hydrangeas are actually 1 step away from being real but they dont have that soft delicate feeling of the hydrangea, where as my hand made ones all together have the soft delicate characteristic of the real flowers even though I have stylised them. but then I could have just 1 electroformed hydrangea on a shank and it would look like a hydrangea, wherte as if I were to take just 1 of my versions of the hydrangea that I hand make it would not have as much of a feel of the real flower. This brings me to realise that my hand made hydrangeas get that " feeling" i want to create by grouping them together, so then is that the characteristic of the flower I am focusing on if they need to be bunched together? all along I have been trying to get the veined detail on the hand made ones where as that is not actually the main characteristic that gives them that feeling of being hydrangeas! complicated!
from here I want to explore using the tube and putting the hydrangeas on it and setting a little gem stone in the top of it.
from here I want to explore using the tube and putting the hydrangeas on it and setting a little gem stone in the top of it.
Here is my latest hand made hydrangea piece:
creating rings from moulds of my electroformed then cast Hydrangeas
So for so long I have been trying to create a hydrangea exactly as it is in real life except in silver without casting it as I was not satisfied with the loss of detail that happened when casting. I have finally acheived my goal (i have taken so long to blog about it, I actually acheived it a while back!). Here are my pics of my silver hydrangeas:
The detail does not show in the picture.
The shank i am testing out reminds me of a vase. I think I am going to explore further this vase idea!
Here's where I got my vase idea from. I placed my shank down on my desk and then realised!
The detail does not show in the picture. The shank i am testing out reminds me of a vase. I think I am going to explore further this vase idea! Here's where I got my vase idea from. I placed my shank down on my desk and then realised!
Monday, November 1, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Food
So I am very interested with casting food. I made a silicone mold of a popcorn but not sure I like how it came ot but i bet it would look really cool enamelled in white. I am also making Marie biscuits which by the way originally were made in Durban in a Factory in the early early times(I will get the exact date) Obviously that is only one type of marie that was made in that factory, the name Marie is it's generic name so no one has the right to claim it. Marie biscuits are made all over the world!
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Funny rings/pendants
I have already made one happiness ring. It is like the one on the far left. I am still waiting for my letter punches to arrive here in the post so that I can make more and different types including some of the little people with them. I ordered them from Ireland. The ring I have already made is stamped with Happiness on the shank.
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Here is the ring I was talking about above.
Drawing with wire
I would like to try drawing with wire and creating shapes and flowers that are out of preportion and i suppose I could say free. Free from their predictable shape and far more expressive and raw.
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This orchid that is dried out now was a wild one from marlene's orchids. I want to cast more orchids like the one I did in February and use their petals etc to make some interesting jewellery.
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I have been wanting to make shanks out of the ends of spoons. My mom has got spoon colections and this idea came to me whilst we were having pudding and I was examining the silver spoon I was using. the spoon on the left which is not very clear we dated back to 1902. Nick has a book full of hallmarks and hteir time/ era and we found the hall marks and where they were from in on this spoon in the book. this spoon comes from sheffield in England.
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This is another section of my work, my hydrangeas. I cannot wait till December whne I buy my own hydrangea bushes and plant them. They change colour according to the acid balance in the soil.
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I am doing many things at the moment and one of them is creating little people out of silver which I carve. I need to make more!
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