Starting my Blog

My son talked me into starting a blog to have a home for process pictures and more detailed descriptions of the techniques and inspirations. Good idea, I thought. It could also be a home for the picture of some of my work that never made it to the photography studio and only earned a snap shot. Not that the pieces were inferior to the ones that are shown in the Star Gazing Rabbit Collection. Many times a piece of jewelry gets gifted before I get a chance to have it professionally photographed.

I would like to start with two necklaces that I made this summer for two very good friends of mine. I tried to give each of them personality that would reflect that of my friends and also make them “wearable”. My jewelry broadly falls into one of two categories, which could be called the statement pieces and the “wearables".

The two photos show finished pieces. One uses irregular pieces of pure silver with pure gold keum-boo gilding, mounted on sterling silver foxtail chain. In the other one, small cylinders of lapis lazuli were mounted in silver and arranged on a black leather cord. The latter piece would particularly benefit from a better quality photo. Some detail, such as the oxidized fine tubes on the long connecting wires don’t show very well in this picture.