more of my journal sketches

Here are the sketches for the earrings that I blogged about on tuesday. I forgot to put the sketches up.

Pages from my sketch journal

Here are som seeds of Dandelions i tried to create out of silver wire...

I have been thinking about the dandelion flower and how it is made up of individual little delicate seeds that float when you blow them and make a wish.

I really like the middle small sketch of the upside down umbrella flower, floating in the middle of the page.

The question I have been asking myself this week is: how delicate can a piece of jewellery be and what makes it feel so delicate. (still looking about and thinking about it.)

Designs from my drawing journal

Some design ideas for my shining lights competition drawings. They all come from elements and flowers i have been experimenting with.

My flower punch came into good use for this design

Dried out helicopter flowers

how beautiful are the veins in this semi dried out helicopter flower!!

I am busy looking at these dried out petria above to try and make some similar out of matel. I enjoy their delicate fragileness.

An Earring a day project

I decided to make a new design of an earring per day so I started off with these designs which I have used my Flower punch with...

Test piece enamel orchids

I am busy trying to create orchids out of fine silver and enamel

Here is an orchid from my sister's garden, but it has somehow lost most of its beautiful colour

Some of my test pieces for pink enamel on fine silver. As you can see the pinks donot work well on silver so I am now going to have to try on copper

Here are some of the orchids i made and tried out the enamel colours on

Orchid in Fine Silver

Petal pink in enamel Persimmon eamel
I think this colour was more successful than petal pink

Testing

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These Hydrangeas are so beautiful! They are growing in my friends garden

I bought this punch to start making flower paper cut outs

Thought I would try it out in fine silver rolled to paper thin thickness

Trying out different ideas with these flowers

Back to my Helicopter prototypes

Chriss taught me fold forming. It could be an option for the petals in my petrius flowers to make them stronger and to give them detail

I have been trying to create helicopter flowers out of fine silver. I have been trying all sorts of methods and different flower variations.

Cut out then put back through the roller

Cut out and hit with a punch in the middle

*I need the stem of the flower to lengther when I hit it with a punch

I think this would make a nice hair clip

I Heart Market

I did the I heart Market 2 weeks ago. I made studd earings out of silver, the photo's below show a bit of my process in making the earrings

Piercing out my shapes

Jewellery I made and sold last week 28/01

I sold some of my hydrangea Range jewellery pieces to a customer who sells jewellery in Denmark. I had to work late hours to finish 4 of these pieces in 2 days. I proved to myself how much work I am capable of doing when I am given a challenging dead line to meet. :) The customer was happy and so was I! :)

(I'm not sure why this writing is underlined but I can't change it.)

Interesting photo's from my holiday overseas dec 09

Spain

The Elhambra in Spain..... and amazingly decorated palace with intricate designs inside on the walls and roof

A cathederal in Malaga, Spain

Belfast

View from outside the kitchen window in Temple Patrick, Belfast

Belfast City Hall, Our City Hall is exactly the same as it was bulit off the exact same plans

France

I want a house like this when Im older :) ( France)