Sunday, February 5, 2012

A Few New Things

Happy Birthday to me!  Well actually it's passed now, but I'm declaring this to be my birthday month!

A gift of living flowers to brighten the house and the mood to start my birthday.  And then a wonderful dinner with my parents, husband, and friend (and dogs too).  And then a nice chunk of time to work in the studio.  And here's what I finished:

These are reticulated silver earrings with sterling squiggles and balls with 4mm amethyst cabochons.

Then I worked up these long, thin heavily reticulated earrings with balls and pale pink faceted tourmaline bead drops.

I also finished this pin/pendant on Friday.  It's been in process for a while but I wasn't happy with what was happening.  So, I kept looking at it and looking at it and looking at it and finally it hit me--I turned the piece vertically, added another small bezel and then the bead drop at the bottom.  The Sleeping Beauty turquoise just sings with the silver. 

I have a bunch of other thing in various stages of creation, so keep looking back here and you'll see a lot more new designs.