Some Halloween Cuffs and Earrings

I really should be posting more blogs. I mean I start out with good intentions but sort of get tied up with other things and to be honest I feel I make such a mess of my blog page... oh never mind lets share some of the jewellery I have been doing in time for Halloween.

Front view of memory wire bracelet with polymer clay roses and semi precious howlite skulls.. I start out with not having any intention of doing roses but somehow I always end up with roses somewhere!

Back view of memory wire bracelet.

Close up view of the roses.

Couldn't make cuffs with out making earrings to match

This past year ...well since January really I decided to use more mixed media and to try new techniques. One of the techniques I have been learning and really enjoying is wire work. Here is a wire work cuff and earrings to match.

A hand formed wire frame with hand knitted wire insert The polymer clay roses and howlite skulls and crystals are then woven into the insert. The shepherd style clasp hook I also made. 

Back View of Cuff showing the clasp.

Matching earrings .

Earrings made using memory wire.

These I have put up for sale on my website

Not only are they suited for Halloween but anyone who likes gothic fashions.

The Beauty That Surrounds Us Part 2

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The other day when I was in our conservatory something caught my eye that was fluttering on one of the panes of glass. I don't know if it was a moth or a butterfly. But whatever it was to me it was beautiful. I wanted to let it out so I thought I would take a photo of it before sending it on it's way.The wings were dark in colour with spots that reminded me of a peacock.

A couple of nights later I was about to put my recycling out when I nearly had heart failior!  There was something alien looking stuck to one of the bags. It was the biggest slug I have ever come across. It was the grand daddy of all slugs! I admit I am not a big fan of slugs but I had a strange fascination for this one.  With great big wads of kitchen roll I scooped it up and placed it on some more wads of kitchen roll and took it's photo. It had spots and stripes and leopard print markings. In my daughters words it must have been a designer slug. This summers must have accessories. 

And talking of the big things. Just over four years ago we had a new addition to the family. A six week old Welsh border collie pup,who incidently feels bothered by things that fly(I think he feels they have an unfair advantage over him as he can't fly). A couple of weeks later he  gleefully chased something into the living room from outside. It landed by the side of the mirror. I thought it was a bat. It turned out to be a moth. A elephant hawk moth apparantly.

 

For those of you who may have dropped by and read this blog. It is from this beauty that surround us that I take inspiration from and try and recreate in polymer clay and jewellery making.