Each year, right about now, I donate a piece of jewelry to be auctioned during the KAKM Art Showcase. KAKM is our local public tv station and the art auction is a huge fundraiser. It is televised for three consecutive nights in mid February. I find it very exciting to watch my handcrafted jewelry getting ever increasing bids during this live auction every year.
The piece I selected for this year's auction features lots of little sapphire briolettes and a series of tiny white seed pearls. The base is a piece of sterling silver wire that I shaped by hand and hammered flat for strength and to make a nice surface for the seed pearls to rest on.
Emerging from the top of the wire work are small rondelles of crystal quartz, leading to sterling silver oval rolo chain, one of my favorite chain styles.
And a couple more photos of it:
I don't usually do that type of wire wrapping because it takes a lot of patience. Patience that I generally lack. But this time, the piece really needed it and once I put my mind to it, it didn't take as long as I thought it might.
The piece I selected for this year's auction features lots of little sapphire briolettes and a series of tiny white seed pearls. The base is a piece of sterling silver wire that I shaped by hand and hammered flat for strength and to make a nice surface for the seed pearls to rest on.
Emerging from the top of the wire work are small rondelles of crystal quartz, leading to sterling silver oval rolo chain, one of my favorite chain styles.
And a couple more photos of it:
I don't usually do that type of wire wrapping because it takes a lot of patience. Patience that I generally lack. But this time, the piece really needed it and once I put my mind to it, it didn't take as long as I thought it might.
2 comments:
It's absolutely gorgeous!
Very pretty! I also like your new Blog Header!! -maybe it's because I'm partial to those LOVELY earrings on the upper left ;) Happy New Year to you, Rick and Jett too!
xo
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