Brooch A Week #16 through #20
May 16, 2013
Brooch A Week #11, #12
March 19, 2013
I’m keeping a good pace on the brooches! BAW52 is so much fun. I look forward to what comes next. I just got in some really magnificent cabochons which will be my inspiration for the next pin!
Finished with 11 and 12. I’m super happy with the way each of them turned out.
#11 is made with sterling silver and faceted clear quartz stone. Still running on my “Shapes” inspiration, I designed it with a heart, ring and a freeform dangle at the bottom for interest:
#12 is one of my classic designs, that I love, featuring a MOP vintage button hand set in oxidized sterling silver.
Brooch A Week #10
March 15, 2013
This week, for the Brooch A Week Flickr Challenge, I made a little sterling silver “shapes” pin. The circle and square spin freely. The white topaz is nice and has a lot of fire!
Brooch A Week #9
March 12, 2013
Going back to my recent favorite material… Vintage Buttons, here is BAW #9. I am so addicted to these vintage painted porcelain buttons. They have a life of their own with lovely color pained on by hand, back in the day! This button inspired me to make a simple sterling silver setting, just enough to make the colors pop. An oxidized patinae gives an old world appeal to this modern day brooch:
Brooch A Week #8
March 11, 2013
Entry week #7 is made with a vintage crystal button. I wanted to set this button without doing a bezel and keeping the button-hole intact. I designed a frame with a prong setting and a little loop to allow the pin wire to go through while attached through the hole in the button. I know, hard to understand my words… Have a look instead:
Brooch A Week #7
March 10, 2013
I used to do a lot of freeform wire brooches before I got hooked on the torch. Real;ly had fun with this and will probably make a few more incorporating stone setting with the wire. Thought I’d go back to my roots with this one. Hand formed with copper wire, oxidized and polished:
EtsyMetal Blog Carnival ~ “Where Do You Live?”
March 4, 2013
A glimpse into the “who we are” at EtsyMetal this month! The Blog Carnival is a monthly topic on various subjects that the members of the EtsyMetal Team write about. The list of participants for this month are listed at the end of my article. Please enjoy clicking to each member’s blog article for some very diverse and interesting reading!
I live in an adobe house in the great Southwest, USA. New Mexico is a beautiful state which holds a lot of inspiration for me as an artist. From the lovely sunsets, unique New Mexican Cuisine and the Sandia Mountains to the fall Chile harvest, the colors here are warm and amazing.
Pictures tell a thousand words so here is a small pictorial view of where I live:
Adobe Sol Designs ~ The Blog 