New Jewelry — Page 18

Sterling, Pearls and Getting Pentecostal

June 30, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

I just finished this ring and I am excited to show it to you!

It’s built of sterling, 14 karat gold, chrysoprase and pearl. It’s a simple design (as in it didn’t take me HOURS to create) but it’s loaded with various textures and a quirky pearl setting. The face of this ring is concave so it catches a beautiful amount of quality light that manages to lift the texture up and out of the metal work. I’ve set a delicious little oval cut of chrysoprase off to the side with a brightly polished stream of gold on one flank. I love that little smear of gold. It warms the sterling up so beautifully. On the backside of this ring I’ve bezel set a pearl which makes for a gorgeous ivory glimpse each time you turn your hand. Clever. This piece wears gorgeously on a pointer finger so that the pearl is completely exposed when the hand is turned or upside down as in this last image. Whoever takes it home is going to knock the socks off of people every time she reaches out to shake a hand.

A note about pearls:

I love working pearls into sterling designs. I think they add a refined and classic spirit to most pieces and the contrast between an oxidized and satin finished slab of sterling and a pearl offers this kazZZZzowwa-pow-pow of glimmering and soul lifting virtuosity and ruggedness. I liken it to sitting on the back of a horse on a rocky mountainside while listening to Chopin. There’s a complexity in the pairing. A pearl is a high note! It’s perfume for the eyes. Add a smudge of gold to the picture as well and you’ll see me swooning all over the church floor like an overwhelmed Pentecostal. I get it. Sometimes the beauty in things really is too grand to stay on your feet.

While I’m currently pressing out a handful of folksy designs (think buffalo with me now and feel the thunder of their hooves)out in the studio, it was really lovely to have something moderately modern pour out of me today. Oh boy oh boy.

This morning, something fell out of my pen tip on the topic of fire and fish and Robert — it’s going to romance your socks off — so I have to take myself fishing this evening on the upper Portneuf on the backside of Pebble

just to connect with the spirit of my man

and the story of the moment I first fell in love with him so I can better write it and explore the root of the tale.

Man oh man, it’s going to make you weep.

I wonder what he’s doing right now.

I wonder if the smoke is getting in his eyes

up there on the tundra of Alaska?
Sometimes I think the reason I’m able to fly this summer is because he and I are so darn connected that I can’t help but feel the force of the wind and be lifted up each time he jumps out of a plane…

A most blessed afternoon to you all,

The Plume

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A Handful of Beauteous Things:

June 28, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

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Thank you all, every single one of you, for attending my shop update yesterday — whether you claimed something for yourself or not — I appreciated you being there. You never cease to amaze me with your support.

One gorgeous little buffalo!

[sterling & gold]

Two little bangles that feature yellow opal and a sterling bone.

Yellowed Bones.

Three pairs of sweet, sweet earrings. Two for you. One for me. All sterling.

Isadora Earrings!

I can never really say enough about these earrings. The color of the teal fluorite cabochons, the weight, the length, the movement…..simply a perfect design.

A Seed Necklace built of sterling and enamel. Just. So. Pretty. Airy. Ethereal. Summery. This piece is so good for the soul.

A Love Cuff built of sterling, prehnite and resisted and antiqued leather. WILD COLORS, huh? You’re going to attract hummingbirds and bees with this baby. It’s perfect for summer celebration, it will beat away the winter blues and it will assuage the appetite of any chromaphile.

One more Love Cuff in sterling, banded fluorite in yellows and green as well as resisted and antiqued leather. Bzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. It’s going to make your honey sweeter than any other.

I’m off to list these baubles in the Etsy shop! I’ll see you there!

And, for the record, let me say I am feeling so good today. My energy levels are high, I’m without the painful symptoms I’ve been experiencing lately and besides REALLY missing RW’s kisses I feel without brain fog and rather whole. There’s peace flowing through my property, like a river. It’s such a relief to not be sick today and it’s been the delight of my heart to create again. Sending you all Love today.

PLUME

PS Please do pardon those crazy veins that are popping out of my wrists and arms! It’s so hot here today! I feel like I’m melting. On days like today, I wonder how I survived 130F in Arizona when we were located there…I’m going to go get a lime popsicle out of the freezer…pant pant pant.

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Shiny Shiny Things Make My Magpie Heart Happy

June 23, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

Good afternoon, sugar beets!

I have a handful of things ready to head to the Etsy shop ~~this evening~~ OOPS! I’m actually going to start listing momentarily:

May these little pretties all go to good homes!

~~See you this evening…~~actually I’m going to see you right now little tweeters!

xx
Queen of the Magpies

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Reinventing the Wheel

June 16, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

The other night, a friend told me that if I was feeling stumped while out in the studio, I should just reinvent the wheel and reinvent it perfectly over and over again until I found my footing once more.

So I’ve been reinventing the wheel around these parts, my sweet tweeters,

and enjoying myself thoroughly.

Yesterday I finished up another Glitz Ring. This one features a frosty citrus slice of druzy agate set in sterling and crowned with some ravishing bits of debris.

I also whipped up an Up From the Earth Ring, which I haven’t done in a while. It’s been hard to find pieces of turquoise I really admire lately so I pulled this cabochon from my stash to work with yesterday. I bought it three years ago from a lapidary artist in a small Arizona town I used to live near. It’s as beautiful as ever and is a gorgeous, thick, unbacked piece of turquoise. PURE rock. PURE business. I hope the lady who claims her can handle it…some rustication of fanciness on the metal portions of this setting make this piece feel like a relic. Which I love.

Lastly, all the way from Idaho (hang on….that’s HERE…) is this beautiful cut of Prudent Man Agate. I always like to let you know when a stone I’ve used is from this state of mine. Prudent Man Agate is one of my favorite rocks to work with and when I work with it, I’m supporting a local Idaho claim which makes me feel really nice, inside, where it counts. When you reach up and take it off the shelf over at Plumeville, you support an Idaho artist and an Idaho claim. Good on you! I’ve set this gorgeous and effervescent landscape in rusticated sterling. Just lovely.

I’ve got a handful of Love Cuffs I’m working on at the moment and they should be finished by this evening and in the Etsy Shop so until then, adieu, adieu!

PLUME

:::EDIT:::

Thanks so much to the ladies who claimed these rings as well as the newest leather Love cuffs! I appreciate you so very much — it’s practically dreadfully beauteous (whatever that means). xx

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