Showing posts with label wire sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wire sculpture. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Fuji





Mount Fuji is Japan's highest mountain, a sacred place, a religious symbol whose history is filled with legends, it is also a volcano that's considered still active, though the risk of eruption is low. The last one dates back to 1707.
For this necklace I have chosen red River Jasper stones, the focal bead is a cone, albeit a 2D one, to echo the shape of the mountain. Its markings are amazing, looking like lava pouring down. I like the particular red colour of this type of jasper, a vintage kind of red which went well with the history of Mount Fuji (well I thought so anyway)! :)
Decorated with freshwater pearls, crystals, mother-of-pearl, red coral, garnet, onyx and glass seed beads.





Le Mont Fuji, point culminant du Japon, montagne sacrée, symbole religieux aux multiples légendes, Fuji est un volcan toujours considéré actif (le risque est faible apparemment) et dont la dernière éruption remonte à 1707.
Pour ce collier j’ai choisi du jaspe ‘rivière’: La pierre centrale est un jaspe rouge strié de minéraux divers, comme des coulées de lave sur les pentes d’un volcan; la pierre apparait fissurée mais elle est parfaitement lisse, de plus la couleur rouge particulière à ce type de jaspe lui donne un petit air vintage, qui je trouve se marie bien avec l’histoire de la montagne. Qui sait combien de magma se cache encore au sein du Mont Fuji??
Le collier et le pendentif sont décorés de perles d'eau douce, petits cristaux, nacre, onyx, corail rouge, grenat, et de petites perles de verre.



MERCI DE VOTRE VISITE!!

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Pacifique Sud - South Pacific



Beautiful snakeskin jasper stone, amazing colour, irresistible... hand-fabricated chain with small snakeskin jasper beads to match...

Jaspe 'peau de serpent', tres belle pierre, une couleur hypnotisante et irrésistible! Chaine fabriquée main avec de petites perles de jaspe 'peau de serpent' également...

Friday, February 26, 2010

Merry-Go-Round!!!!!!


It's Merry time!!!!
This month's question: what do I hope to achieve this year?

There are only two things I REALLY want to achieve this year:
The first is to continue my collaborations with these two lovely people: Isabelle and Chris
As soon as I saw Zaza's mindboggling patient and neat work I thought we could combine our skills into truly unique creations. Zaza bought some of my tutorials and is now well into wire-wrapping and has her own unique creations mixed with her fabulously neat beadwork, and we just started our collaboration with these 2 HUGE rings!!!



Chris works with silver, natural stones and has the most amazing eye for finding truly amazing handmade lampork beads. She regularly checks up on me and what I create, pounces on what takes her fancy and incorporate my work into hers. This is her latest materpiece and it takes my breath away everytime I look at it... Chris has SUCH a gift for making stones and beads look as beautiful as they possibly can, absolutely amazing!!!!



My second goal this year is to keep having fun creating of course, and to go beyond what I have done so far... Now here's the tricky bit... what does it actually mean??? Well, it may mean 'go beyond in size' and I actually have one on-going project with a huge raw amethyst that I want to make into a decorative item... but I also want to progress in wire-wrapping and make something that makes me gawp and say: did I make that??? And subsequently have a big grin on my face... =D

And also, I want to get to grips with Facebook... because, dear me, I am so lost in there, I reckon it's a great marketing tool, but phew... they have not made it simple... Or am I too old for it??? LOL!!!

Please visit the other Merry-Go-Rounders' blogs!! We have 3 new members this month, Kim, Mitsy and Alison (Welcome!!!!), and all direct links to everyone's blog can be found on the sidebar.
Happy reading!!!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

one Night in Neverland...Une Nuit au Pays Imaginaire



Follow Tinkerbell and her fairydust...

Suivez Clochette et sa poussiere d'etoiles...

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Domptée!!



Another beautiful amethyst cluster ‘simply’ wrapped, by this I mean with more wire than stones, 2 days of thinking and tough wrapping (ouch my fingers!!!!)… It looks so BRUTAL!! I absolutely adore it, and have decided to keep this one for myself… A nice start to 2010 lol!!!



Une deuxième améthyste brute, plus grosse, celle-ci montée en pendentif avec moins de pierres et plus de wire. Deux jours de cogitation et de wrapping à s’arracher la peau des doigts MDR… le wire wrapping est une occupation dangereuse!!!
C’est un pendentif imposant et lourd (52 gr.), à ne pas mettre entre toutes les mains… d’ailleurs, j’ai décidé de le garder pour mes mimines à moi !!!! HAHAHAHA!!!









*MERCI DE VOTRE VISITE*THANKS FOR LOOKING*

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Sirop d'érable... Maple Syrup...







Une belle bague imposante pour commencer l'année, en perles et pierres naturelles bien entendu!! Avec un joli fil doré dont la couleur rappelle l'or 9 carat, vraiment joli!!

A nice golden cocktail ring to start 2010 in style, with of course natural stones and beads, with a very nice gold coloured artistic wire, that looks like 9 carat gold... A brilliant find from my lovely friend Ayperi, thank you my dear!!!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

A candle for Santa... une bougie pour le Père Noël...

Ma contribution pour le défi ALM sur le thème de Noël, une bougie de corail rouge pour le que le Père Noël voit bien où déposer mes cadeaux... :D



A little candle for Santa, made of red coral and natural stones... I'll leave it on the night before Christmas, with milk and cookies... :P







Bagues... Rings...



Mes préferées: gigantesques mais légères, et brodées au MAXIMUM de perles et de pierres naturelles. Et vraiment FUN à fabriquer!!!



My favourites at the moment: they are gigantic, but light, and really FULL to the MAX with natural stones. Really FUN to make too!!