Handmade jewelry

Some months ago I met a woman at about my age and we became friends as we have a lot of common hobbies like fleamarkets and fancy jewelry. When I showed her the pieces I made she fell in love immediately and the pieces seem to be made for her and fit her very well. She gave me some orders, too: I made a pendant with a labradorite including an old brooch from her aunt and another pendant out of a very old silver fork created by a famous Danish goldsmith. Here you can see the pendants and earrings I made in the last time.

By the way, I want to make a little creative break and will be back in some weeks. Thanks for looking into my blog in the past months.

Handmade and old jewelry

This time I want to show you some new pieces of jewelry that I made in the last weeks and some that I made in the very beginning. When I started learning with my Latvian teacher I “wasted” a lot of fine gold. We melted a thin layer of fine gold on a Sterling silver undercoat without soldering it. You can still see the work marks on my elder pieces.

Some weeks ago I met a wonderful woman who wanted to have a piece of jewelry out of an old knife-handle from silver. It is a very beautiful art nouveau handle from Denmark made by a famous goldsmith named Evald Nielsen. No jeweler wanted to do this work and it would have cost a lot of money. But I did it and it worked out perfectly. She was extremely happy about it and wears it ever since. It looks like an extraordinary pendant, not like a knife handle and many people have asked her about this piece of jewelry, which makes me very proud. Then I showed her all my handmade jewelry and she fell in love with some pieces. As I do a lot of brooches and she only wears pendants I had to change 2 pieces to become pendants. And these pieces fit her perfectly. I got 3 old silver brooches from her in return which are from art nouveau time with floral design which I like a lot.

The pieces you see below have been made out of Sterling silver, partly coated with fine gold and the following semiprecious stones: labradorite, cyanite, moonstone, lapis lazuli, amethyst, onyx as well as coral, mammoth tooth, horn, beach glass, ebony, a black stone from the beach and old coins. And on top you can see the 3 beautiful old brooches I got.

textures

This time I want to show a collection of different textures and colors from marble, mushrooms, rose petals, bark, exotic capsules, bracket fungus, tile, crystal, sea urchin etc. I wish you all a wonderful week-end and thank you all for your appreciation for my two blogs.

Handmade jewelry

When I was a little girl I had a lot of dreams, mostly nightmares with evil witches. But one night I dreamed that I found several boxes filled with beautiful jewelry under my bed. I was overwhelmed and so happy, and looked at every single piece with a lot of joy.
My dream was so realistic that – waking-up – I crawled under my bed to find these boxes and to look at them again. I felt for the jewelry under my bed in the front and in the back, but it wasn’t there anymore. I started to cry in despair and couldn’t understand it at all.
Many years later I remembered this dream and thought: it was a prophecy! If you would look under my bed nowadays you would find a box with jewelry!
Today I can show you my latest oeuvre: eight brooches I made in the last weeks. I worked every day in my cellar and felt like a storage reservoir that was nearly overflowing, because I had so many ideas.
All these brooches were made out of Sterling silver with corals, pearls, aquamarine and a orthoceras (fossil) etc. I photographed all these pieces in my garden, some on slate, some on flowers, some on leafs, one on agaric.
My favorite style is art nouveau. I’m sure you can see that in my work.