Earrings... Boucles...

The Dream Seller Ring * Bague Marchand de Songes

Les Années Folles... The Roaring 1920's...

Pour le défi "Années Folles" d'ALM voici un (modeste) homage à la célèbre, énigmatique et fascinante Mademoiselle Chanel, qui dans ses bijoux fantaisie aimaient que les pierres semi-précieuses côtoient les fausses perles, le strass et les métaux considérés non-précieux.



Dans “l’esprit de Coco”, de belles aigues-marines naturelles dans les tons allant du bleu au blanc sont accompagnés de perles de verre beige irisé récupérées d’un collier des années 70, séparées par des petites pierres naturelles: aigue-marine, nacre et quartz blanc. Le tout est monté sur double fil noué à la main après chaque perle.



Le collier (qui peut aussi se porter en bracelet) est réhaussé d’un élément en wire plaqué argent d’inspiration Art Déco, composé d’une phrénite au centre et brodé de perles d’eau douce, aigue-marine, nacre, quartz blanc et petites perles de verre, fini par un toggle et apprêts en métal argenté.
Le collier mesure 59 cm et pèse 44 gr.



For ALM 's Roaring Twenties theme this month, here is my modest contribution to the famous, enigmatic and fascinating Mademoiselle Chanel, who liked in her costme jewellery to mix precious and non-precious elements.



So in this necklace called "Coco's Spirit", beautiful natural aquamarine sit next to 'salvaged' glass beads from a 70's necklace, separated with small stones (quartz, mother-of-pearl and aquamarine), strung on double thread which has been hand-knotted between each bead. Accompanied by a Art Deco inspired wire-wrapped element embroidered with small natural stones. Finished with metal toggle and findings.
The necklace can also be worn as a bracelet, measures 59 cm and weighs 44 gr.

Merry-Go-Round!!!!

It's time for another ride on the merry-go-round! Jump on and join a group of 8 artists/crafts-women as they link around the world and tell you a little about their lives in art and craft.

This month's topic is : Get out of your comfort zone and try something new!

This month’s merry theme has been an absolute treat for me, since I felt my inspiration deserting me with my wire-wrapped pieces lately, so a little break from wire was very welcome indeed!

Like everyone else, I have bits of fabric lying around doing absolutely nothing, and despite having moved house 3 times in the past 5 years, these remnants have survived 3 clear-outs, so I decided to find something to do with them!

I like sewing, I am no good at it, I don’t know anything about it, but I love the idea of being able to make something out of fabric. It involves so many skills!!! The most challenging for me was to actually think about what the finished product would look like… with wire-wrapping I don’t really do the thinking beforehand, I have an idea or a mood or a colour scheme and I just run with it – or rather my wire does lol!!

So I started to look around for simple sewing projects I could do by hand (I don’t have a sewing machine), and there are thousands of websites, forums and tutorials out there!!!

I searched for a few days and in the end I stumbled upon Flowerpotdesign who very generously put together fabric flower tutorials from around the web!!!
And that was that, flowers it would be!

I read every tutorial, and came up with these:





And because you can take the girl out of the wire, but you can’t get the wire out of the girl lol:



This has given me new ideas, I am investing in supplies at the moment, so nothing concrete yet, but fabric is definitely on the cards…

Thanks for reading!

Have a look what the other merry-go-rounders have been up to:
Kim at Viltalakim -
Sara at Crafts of Texture -
Mariana at Florcita -
Agathe at Le Bar du Vent -
Lily at Lily Pang Art and Design -
Mitsy at ArtMind - unable to join in this month -

Little Planet ... Petite Planète...

Metamorphosis...

'Métamorphose', car l'oeil de tigre est une pierre plutôt masculine... que j'ai essayé ici de féminiser au maximum avec un corset!! La pierre centrale était pour moi irrésistible, tellement lumineuse!!
Collier réglable avec 2 mètres de ruban à nouer, le collier peut se porter en ras-de-cou, mi-long et sautoir.
Le pendentif est serti de wire plaqué argent, traité pour résister au ternissement, brodé de minuscules perles d'eau douce, cristaux, onyx, nacre, quartz blanc, oeil de tigre, agate indienne et citrine, et de petites perles de verre.
Merci de votre visite!




"Metamorphosis" as tiger eyes are rather 'masculine' stones... and here I have tried to make it as feminine as possible, with a corset!! The focal stone was irresistible to me, so luminous!!
Adjustable necklace with 2 meters of ribbon to knot. The necklace can be as short or as long as you want.
The pendant is wrapped with silver-plated wire and embroidered withtiny freshwater pearls, crystals, onyx, mother-of-pearl, white quartz, tiger eye, indian agate and citrine, and glass seed beads.

Le verre filé, tout l'art de Jacquelina!!

Voici le nouveau site de Jacquelina, ou vous trouverez de véritables petites oeuvres d'art par une artiste dont l'imagination débordante ne cesse d'émerveiller!!!