Lobolita

Please ignore the puffy pregnant hand. Focus on the bracelet.
The fun part about this bracelet is that it looks like it should fall apart, because of the open horseshoes, but if you make your twisted loops smaller than the flared ends of the links, it’s perfectly secure. Now, for the assembly.
1. Using the 24 gague [...]

On the left, you can see my first piece of jewelry made with my own lampworked beads and hammered silver links. Today, I’ll show you how to make the links, and tomorrow I’ll post how to assemble the bracelet.
Materials:
Sterling silver wire in 10, 18, and 24 gauges
10-12 mm transparent lampworked beads
2 mm silver-plated round beads
Roundnose [...]

I think it’s important for jewelry artists to have a recognizable style. It allows creativity within guidelines, and also keeps one’s jewelry from just copying what everybody else is doing.
As I’m trying to develop a distinctive style of my own, one thing I keep coming back to is the hammered silver shapes, including paddle pins.
This [...]

It was a nice day–not too hot. We had about 200 people come through altogether, most looking for cheap yardsale bargains, though many stopped to look at my table.
I ended up selling only two pieces–but one of them was one of the most expensive necklaces on the table! Apparently, people want big stone pendants [...]

At last, non-knitting content! This evening I put dozens of earrings on cards in preparation for my first-ever show. And by show, I mean yard sale. The North Seattle & Shoreline Annual Community Yard Sale, specifically.
Tomorrow, August 8, I’ll be at 143rd and Wallingford Ave N. in Seattle from 9 AM to 2 PM, with [...]

I spent the last two mornings making jewelry upstairs in my studio before it got too hot! I just listed these three on Etsy:

My favorite pieces from today and the photo that inspired them. This pretty little columbine was blooming along a trail we hiked in the Cascades. In honor of its perky, translucent petals, I formed and hammered a petal shape out of 10-gague sterling silver and dangled some spiderweb carnelian and yellow jade from the other [...]

I’ve just listed my first four items on Etsy! Pretty silver and stone jewelry inspired by the Blanca Lake and Sauk River photos. Take a look!

The lightbox works just fine. Today was a beautiful 75 degrees (no, it doesn’t rain all the time in the Northwest), so I took advantage of the afternoon sunshine to photograph some of my pieces. I made this one last week.
Amethyst, peridot, pearls, new jade, rocailles, and a hand-hammered serpentine closure.

I’ll put this one up [...]