michelle's jewellery

Iv tried casting, I'v tried making by hand and now I am on a new discovery of trying electro-forming! Just like electro-plating where yo...

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My cast hydrangeas ( that i cast in march) show the veins in the flower well in silver. I had to find a way of creating these veins in the s...

Tomorrow we exhibit our jewellery in 2 big show cases at the NSA art Gallery . After a very long discussion at tech on thursday morning abou...

My neck piece is in the making but not in the soldering stage! There are so many options I could go with! I am going to have to speed produc...

Simple idea but I have not tried it yet. I want to create a lot of different shanks that will have from 1 to very many hydrangeas on them. I...

I was watching a video by Nora Fok on Michelle pujols blog and found it fascinating how Nora creates this amazing neck piece/ work of art by...

I thought these flowers on the tiles of the walkway were great! They are found under the bridge when you walk from the stadium to the beach....

I have started creating my hydrangea flowers by hand and am going to be creating a few pieces of hydrangea jewellery for the NSA exhibition!...

I absolutely love the goldensmith's blog and work. His piece of jewellery called silver dust fusion just shows that plants don't hav...

We had a sand casting workshop at tech. I thought it would be a good idea to try cast an organic article. When I was cooking at my sisters h...

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We have had a vet kat exhibition where we were to design jewellery around the drawings of the bushmen vet kat. I used one of his flowers and...

Im back! I have not been gone, I have been working in my journal! So what I have been working on for the last 2 months is lots of different ...

For this chapter I did a lot of experimenting with casting real flowers. I started off the chapter feeling unsure of what area I wanted to g...

I just found my very own petria plant in my complex Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

There is always an element of surprise in casting! You are never quite sure how it will come out but I am happy with the way my bits of plan...

Here is another jeweller who creates beautiful orchid jewellery. I cannot tell whether her jewellery is cast but the detail on the orchid is...

As it would turn out some where someone has always tried out the idea you had in your head that you thought was unique and original! I found...

I am so pleased with the result of my cast orchid! I am very excited to put a touch of enamel on it! I need to start thinking how to create ...

I was looking up the meaning of an orchid and there were 3 common meanings: beauty, refinement and love! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless d...

When getting changed to go out one evening I noticed my mom's orchid in her bath room and ever since then I have wanted to create an orc...

I made wax sprues to attach the fern to the button where the silver will run in, in order to cast the fern. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireles...

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For the last 2 years I have made flowers out of silver and using my own templates and I am tired of doing this for now so I have decided to ...

I decided to make this pair of earrings with a oval shape. They are slightly different from each other and I like creating earrings like thi...

Check out this blog site, the paper cut outs of leaves have the same feeling of my fern that is growing out of the metal! These leaves ahve ...

I have been too caught up in the idea of the final piece of jewellery rather than taking my element and exploring it even more. For example ...

On the link below there is an artist that creates a 3 dimensional plant or object by cutting it out from a plain toilet roll or a piece of n...

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I got a bit side tracked and I decided to try out folding flowers and hearts out of paper. I followed some of the demo's on marlene'...