It’s true.
My verve spilleth over.
My pensiveness hath evaporatethed. Somewhat.
My pesky displaced ribs are feeling miraculously better after a trip to the chiropractor and hours upon hours of tempering wretched muscles with ice packs yesterday and today. I say, one never realizes how important breathing is until every breath pokes a wonky rib into a lung.
I’ve been enameling and constructing for most of the day.
I plan to work late.
The view from the studio is grand, it’s snowing on the West Bench. Low clouds are threatening to drop down into the valley
and water the herb garden I planted yesterday.
Wait.
It’s eerily calm. The gale force winds have suddenly ceased. Perhaps I’ve slipped into the eye of the storm.
Do you ever imagine your house and the land that surrounds it by a mile square is actually up in the air rotating like a vinyl record? I’m performing this very imagination as I type this. For a second, it gave some sort of pseudo logical reason for the calmness outside.
This is a necklace I finished today. It’s an extension of the Rumors of the Sea Series and features an orange peel fired and repoussed copper disc, prong set, as well as a little pearl. There are plenty of details to share about this necklace and I promise to do so in the Etsy listing, when the time comes! I find it rather captivating. Plus, that Scandinavian blue is one of my favorite colors. What a shock! I know. Most people love green best of all. I’m rabid for pretty paraphernalia in hues of cerulean.
And oh dear goodness gosh.
Let’s talk about this little necklace.
It’s the first in a seed series!
I’ve taken a sterling, repoussed disc and fired it with translucent enamel — it’s supposed to be a seed. The necklace is stylistically a drop choker so hanging down from the seed is a repoussed, anticlastically raised and enameled sterling leaf.
So pretty. So lifelike, in some manners.
So organic.
Both enameled components look practically edible. J’adore this piece. How could I not? The colors are bombastic. I’ve three more necklaces in similar design on deck for completion this week and I’m going to be thrilled to show you the other finished products. It’s rather obvious that I’ve been taking more cues than usual from nature these past few weeks. The things I find beautiful and inspiring have been blowing huge and fragrant puffs of springtime wind into everything I touch, write, sketch and construct.
The possibilities are so endless that I’m often overwhelmed by the creative options in my mind.
I’m sure that many of you can relate.
In other news, I’m on the hunt for a Little Red Riding Hood cape.
Send me thine linketh if you knoweth of one!
I am hoping you all had a most glorious Tuesday!
I’ll bet you’re growing tulips between your toes.
Rah rah springtime!
We love you so!
xx
PLUME
wow. you never cease to amaze, and in so very many creative ways. what a gift you are, my dear!
how's this? http://www.etsy.com/listing/44271214/little-red-riding-hood-cape-back-in
Yet more beautiful compositions from Ms. P…..So hope you are feeling better each moment and by the looks of your productions, you are…..:o)XXOO Sal
Leaf and Seed is breathtaking!
So thou art searching for the cape – haveth thou met the badeth wolf?
Yummy, yummy, yummy! Gorgeous juxtaposition of color!
Love the concept of your new pieces. Ribs..you hurt your ribs?? Maybe I missed something in an earlier post, but glad it seems to be getting better. Be careful with yourself.
Pam
I love your new pieces…. The orange piece really pops! They look like they were out in nature and magically took on new life in metal!
Health and happiness,
Angela
http://angelawalkerjewelry.blogspot.com/
I don't think this really counts as a "Red Riding Hood Cape" but I love it so that I had to share…
http://www.etsy.com/listing/36947146/red-cloak-with-belt-no1
ps. I LOVE your new designs. LOVE
'these gems have life in them. their colors speak, say what words fail of.'
I am jealous of the calm around your home…my ears, my senses are exhausted. I imagined being in the eye of the storm and instantly got dizzy! I prefer blue way over green but I prefer green when it is just the absolutely right green but really blue is my fave especially prussian blue…I do love the cues nature has been giving you, no tulips between my toes and my amaryllis is still trying to bloom, what in the world?…
xxx
Janet: :)))))))))) (that's a really big smile)
Lara: OH. That's the one I want! You aren't the only gal who sent me this link!!!
Sal: I'm slowly starting to feel better but this rib thing has me on the floor half the time! I've tried not to complain about it too much, for fear you'd think me wimpy…but it's really a pain.
Stregata: I planneth on meeting the big baddie and wouldeth liketh to looketh my besteth.
Jaune: You WOULD like that color combination:) xx
Willow: Yes. I did displace two ribs, a while ago. They've been bugging me for weeks. I've not been really vocal about it because personally, I find it annoying when people only ever talk about their ailments but I had to let a little squeak out about it yesterday, apparently, because I didn't have control over my extremely scattered thoughts! This blog post is crazily scatterbrained!!! Forgive me for that!
Ribs — in place again, muscles are slowly mending and the fire I was feeling on the entire right side of my back, neck and shoulder is slowly fading away.
Angela: MUSIC TO MY EARS! Thanks for loving little orange seed. xx
Rachael: Ooh. That cape-ish delight is very tempting!!! xx
Lulu: *blush*
MLJ: Home is calm, for the moment. I'm fighting feeling feeling like I'm living a whirlwind existence and am attempting to evoke the bend and swish of the tulips in the breeze. It's hard though. The world wants to wind me up and set me loose like a million crazy helicopter seeds… Your amaryllis is literally a late bloomer:) I think you should perform a blossom dance…
Oh my, these pieces are beautiful. I've never seen anything like them.
Wow!! These are exceptionally beautiful.
Thank you chickpeas!!!
xxxxx