"Autumn" - Bangle.

A page from my design book; some ideas for the bangle  Im working on. I don't draw all that much, so i use my sketches only as a starting point for an idea, then just make the piece as I go, I feel more comfortable working that way. Sometimes it evolves drastically, and sometimes slight. I would like it to look somewhat like a bed of leaves on the ground in autumn. Layered, with all different types of leaves. Some leaves will be 925 and some in fine silver, different techniques used to create the different leaves as well, for contrast.  I imagine the final piece to have a rough look to it. I've decided Im going to start naming my pieces, like art , as i like to think of my work as                  Jewellery Art. This piece will be called "autumn".

Getting set up at home....

OK, so my bench at home is all set up and ready to go. I have made loads of bracelets but never really made a bangle, a big bangle...(surprising coz i love to wear them) Im going to pierce and chase different leaves and branches from plate and solder them layered together to form a bangle. I am using the leaf designs carved on the ceramic pots i made ( last yr sometime), as a sort of reference guide. Lets see how it goes, not sure if i have any expectations of how it may turn out. Just reckon for now i just want to get warmed up and manufacture a finished piece of jewellery, something I've never made before. KEEN!

5 months of JoY*

Shoooooooo... have been out of it for a long while. I have a beautiful little girl to show for it though :) My daughters name is Graciela Joy, (aka gracie or boepsie) with her fathers surname Greene. Have spent the last 5 months enjoying being a mama full-time, but think i am now ready to get back into my groove a little and be once more, a maker of things; among them a jeweller. So I'm back on it!

Another trip to Botanical Gardens

This time, instead of taking a million pictures of a million different plants that i don't know and usually don't end up using. I went for a more structured approach and went strait to the indigenous trees section and gathered and photographed the leaves of the trees i would most like to use as a reference to my Jewellery. I also picked up a variety of dry leaves off the floor, i find these so beautiful the way they decompose, slowly -starting by curling inwards to eventually withering away where there is only a vein skeleton left, reminds me somewhat of rust.