some recent work...

As promised, a little look at the fired pieces (shown before firing in my last post).

& a couple of bonus shots of other things I've made recently :)

work(s) in progress...

Today I thought I'd blog a little bit about my jewellery making.


I make my silver jewellery using PMC (precious metal clay), which is basically tiny silver particles in an organic binder - not actually 'clay' as such. While it's wet, I roll, shape & texture the piece, before leaving it to air dry.

You can use almost anything to create a texture in the wet clay, I have used leaves, lace, seedpods, straws, toothpicks.....& I've also made myself some texture plates & stamps. You can see some of the plates in the photo above & the photo below shows some of my stamps, all made out of polymer clay.


Once the clay has air dried (at this stage it's referred to as 'leather hard'), I can refine the piece. I sand the edges to make them smooth & attach the bail (for pendants). Sometimes I embellish the piece further, by carving or adding raised decorations.


I also set many of my pieces with lovely sparklies - lab created cubic zirconias. I have lots of different shapes & colours....

Once I'm happy with the finish, I fire the pieces in my kiln. The pieces in these photos got fired last night...I'll take some photos to blog soon :)

A hot cup of tea is like a little slice of heaven...

...on a cold day...or a cup of coffee or hot chocolate of course :) . Some out-takes from my Pretty Pink Tuesday shot. The one above is the one I almost chose (sorry Kathryn) & below are some shots of the girls & Archie getting in on the photoshoot, enjoy :)

playing with texture

I created some new textures tonight by scanning some pretty scrapbooking paper. I edited these two shots using the textures, plus two more...one I uploaded to flickr & the other wouldn't upload to my blog....might try again another time. :)

...scattered pieces...

Fine silver pendant newly listed on my etsy. The pendant is textured using a piece of lace that I got from mum & I used some shards that I had kept to make the raised sections.

over the hills to the sea...

Some new listings on etsy....Sea spirals, fine silver earrings with amazonite beads...

& wandering in the moonlight, fine silver pendant....really pleased with how this one turned out.



getting started with planning my Melbourne trip......it's kind of far away but not & I'm excited & nervous by turns.....mostly excited though :)

Rain, rain, come to play...

Late last month we had some gorgeous rain.......so of course I was out with the macro lens :) I've just uploaded this one to my Flickr & I thought I'd share a few of the others here.



It's making like it might rain again......here's hoping :)