Following an Idea

I've found so much inspiration with the flowering vine piece that I've been working non-stop on translations and variations.  From the initail inspiration piece, I started making a necklace.  Here's how it started:  sterling silver flowering vines much like the original element; I tried different stones and loose flowers and leaves.

I kept playing with elements and then turned them into this:

To finish, I set an opal as the featured stone and linked the vines together with wire scrolled links.  I particularly like the clasp--a flower and leaves to bring the design around the neck. 

Here's a detail of the front:

After the necklace, I opted to make a pair of earrings.  Here are 22g sterling silver flowers and leaves on 18g sterling silver vines.  They have stud backs behind the swirled stems and are about 2 inches long. 

More designs are coming including bracelets, earrings, and more necklaces!  Check back soon. 

Flowering Options

It's amazing what can happen with the making of one component.  I had an idea--flowers and leaves on a vine--that was going to be a delicate necklace frontispiece.  As I put all the pieces together, it took on a life of its own.  Now I don't know if it should be a pin, situated like this:

or like this:

Or I had a thought that I could create similar pieces and link them to form a necklace that would be similar to this:



Try to imagine these two pieces meeting at the center of the neckline.  I think it would be beautiful!  What do you think?   I think I need to make many more of these vines and create all of the options, as well as the ones that will present themselves during the process.  Time to get busy!