craftgrrl | Three new pieces from the Silver Leaves Collection (Reply)

Hmm...I think it's been a while since I posted any finished pieces. I've been stockpiling supplies for the big commission I posted the design sketches for (at least, I think I did) a while back, working on some event promo art (that the priorities-for-what-gets-finished-first keeps being switched on), pondering preparations for a Faerie Festival my work will be at in 2007, and plotting and scheming a number of new commissions and collaberative projects -- all of which amounts to much busybusybusybusyme-ness, but little to show for it, in any respect, in the immediate sense. I'm trying to "Oh well" at that, instead of "GAH!", but it only works so well, you know? Even when I'm somewhat productive, it's hard to feel productive...or at least, productive enough! I think that's one of the hardest things for me, about the kind of metalwork which is most of what I'm doing now...it's so much easier to get all kinds of work done tangental to it, than getting the work done on the pieces themselves! I know that's because it demands large chunks of solid work-time, which is especially hard to come by now that I have a baby, but....yeah. Frustrating. Anyway, I do have photos of three finished pieces that were commissioned and made recently...one maybe two months ago, actually, and two just a few days ago.

Just a simple oak-leaf pendant -- The replica-of-a-real-leaf and "stem" bail were hand-made from fine silver (.999 pure), and given an "Autumn-wash" oxidation finish. No stones were wanted, so no stones were used.

Another fairly simple pendant, this one using a miscellanious jaggedy-heart-shaped leaf -- The leaf and bail are fine silver, and the true-jade stone cabachon is bezel-set in sterling, for strength. The oxidation finish is somewhere between my "Autumn-wash" and my "Natural", though the photo doesn't capture it well.

A simple rose-leaf piece, but this one is a pin -- As before, the leaf is fine silver, but this time, the stem is made from sterling wire. The pin-back (which I forgot to get a photo of) is also hand-made from sterling wire, and the bezel-setting is sterling as well. The stone cabachon is a (very richly loamy, dark-foresty-greens-colored) moss agate, which did not photograph well. The whole piece was darkened slightly via oxidation.