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amazon_syren Aug. 12th, 2011 09:38 pm)
amazon_syren Aug. 12th, 2011 09:38 pm)So.
I started work on another jewelry collection a couple of days ago. It's based on this poem by Yuki_Onna (go read it, I'll wait). I did one pair of earrings for each devil, plus a bonus pair for the end of the poem. They are all long (starting at 2", not counting the shepherds' crook findings, and eventually getting up to about 5"), all very skinny, and all made of interlinked parts so that they'll swing nicely. Oh, and they all involve the little carved bone skull-beads that Raynedaze gave me last year. :-)
When Ghost looked at the first three I'd made, she said they reminded her of California, because of the colours. The colour palate has since gotten a bit broader, but it was heartening to hear, none the less. :-)
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The devil of diverted rivers is a mix of green garnet (opaque, olive green) 4mm spheres, 4mm white shell spheres, chips of white citrine, and chips of gold-stone (which is actually a synthetic thing full of iron pyrite). Each one is finished with a little bone skull. Sage, salt and silt, with flecks of gold.
The devil of imported brides is a mix of 5mm red aventurine (orange) spheres, 6mm yellow jade (very clear) spheres, white rice-beads, and butter-amber chips. Each one is finished with a 4mm garnet sphere and a little bone skull. Orange blossoms, wedding rice, and the blood of the birth/death bed.
The devil of fruit pickers is where things start getting colourful. Yellow seed beads, 4mm green aventurine sphere, 8mm fire agate spheres, and white rice beads, finished with a little bone skull. Oranges, soy beans, corn, and rice, but no nickles.
The devil of gold flake is all blues and browns. Gold-stone chunks, gold-flecked 4mm lapis lazuli spheres, 6mm gold filigree balls, 6mm black onyx banded in browns and whites, 4mm mustard yellow jasper spheres, finished with a little bone skull and a couple of yellow seed beads. Little bits of gold and glitter, everywhere you look.
The devil of mine canaries is pale yellow. 6mm yellow jade and 4mm yellow mookalite, plus the fleck of 4mm pink shell, and a little bone skull. Canary feathers falling, and the pretty pink of death. (That part of the poem frequently makes me cry, fyi).
The devil of acorn mash is a long hollow of dark wood, capped with 6mm banded black onyx streaked with yellow, brown and white, plus 4mm mahogany obsidian and little bone skulls. Wood for the oaks, and brown, brown, for the meal that comes from them.
The devil of the railroad is black and silver, 4mm hematite, spiraling 6mm silver disks, 8mm hematite, garnets and little bone skulls. Iron ore, metal, and the garnet of a shattered heart.
BONUS PIECE(!):
California Falls Into the Sea is a little different. The bone skulls are at the top, rather than the bottom, flanked by 4mm tiger iron jasper. Linked below is a chain of seven blue pieces: turquoise, blue aventurine, rainbow moonstone, and lapis lazuli, plus many, many 2mm silver balls. A long engine-whistle // breaks the blue // into seven pieces.
*~*~*~*~*
I know it's not pictures. But it's what I can do without a steady hand to guide my camera.
It was nice to be getting creative in this particular way again. I find that stuff with patterns like this (seven devils, 28 days, 12 elements of nature...) are good for developing collection plans. They aren't just "Random stuff involving lapis lazuli and amber" (although I've got a wodge of those that are actually really nice, so...) I could, in theory, make up collections where each piece was based on a character in a given book... We'll see what happens on that note, though. No promises.
In other news: My young miss should be arriving Toronto in the next half-hour or so, at which point I will give her a call and then (gratefully) take myself to bed. Hoy. I'm rather tired. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
I started work on another jewelry collection a couple of days ago. It's based on this poem by Yuki_Onna (go read it, I'll wait). I did one pair of earrings for each devil, plus a bonus pair for the end of the poem. They are all long (starting at 2", not counting the shepherds' crook findings, and eventually getting up to about 5"), all very skinny, and all made of interlinked parts so that they'll swing nicely. Oh, and they all involve the little carved bone skull-beads that Raynedaze gave me last year. :-)
When Ghost looked at the first three I'd made, she said they reminded her of California, because of the colours. The colour palate has since gotten a bit broader, but it was heartening to hear, none the less. :-)
*~*~*~*~*
The devil of diverted rivers is a mix of green garnet (opaque, olive green) 4mm spheres, 4mm white shell spheres, chips of white citrine, and chips of gold-stone (which is actually a synthetic thing full of iron pyrite). Each one is finished with a little bone skull. Sage, salt and silt, with flecks of gold.
The devil of imported brides is a mix of 5mm red aventurine (orange) spheres, 6mm yellow jade (very clear) spheres, white rice-beads, and butter-amber chips. Each one is finished with a 4mm garnet sphere and a little bone skull. Orange blossoms, wedding rice, and the blood of the birth/death bed.
The devil of fruit pickers is where things start getting colourful. Yellow seed beads, 4mm green aventurine sphere, 8mm fire agate spheres, and white rice beads, finished with a little bone skull. Oranges, soy beans, corn, and rice, but no nickles.
The devil of gold flake is all blues and browns. Gold-stone chunks, gold-flecked 4mm lapis lazuli spheres, 6mm gold filigree balls, 6mm black onyx banded in browns and whites, 4mm mustard yellow jasper spheres, finished with a little bone skull and a couple of yellow seed beads. Little bits of gold and glitter, everywhere you look.
The devil of mine canaries is pale yellow. 6mm yellow jade and 4mm yellow mookalite, plus the fleck of 4mm pink shell, and a little bone skull. Canary feathers falling, and the pretty pink of death. (That part of the poem frequently makes me cry, fyi).
The devil of acorn mash is a long hollow of dark wood, capped with 6mm banded black onyx streaked with yellow, brown and white, plus 4mm mahogany obsidian and little bone skulls. Wood for the oaks, and brown, brown, for the meal that comes from them.
The devil of the railroad is black and silver, 4mm hematite, spiraling 6mm silver disks, 8mm hematite, garnets and little bone skulls. Iron ore, metal, and the garnet of a shattered heart.
BONUS PIECE(!):
California Falls Into the Sea is a little different. The bone skulls are at the top, rather than the bottom, flanked by 4mm tiger iron jasper. Linked below is a chain of seven blue pieces: turquoise, blue aventurine, rainbow moonstone, and lapis lazuli, plus many, many 2mm silver balls. A long engine-whistle // breaks the blue // into seven pieces.
*~*~*~*~*
I know it's not pictures. But it's what I can do without a steady hand to guide my camera.
It was nice to be getting creative in this particular way again. I find that stuff with patterns like this (seven devils, 28 days, 12 elements of nature...) are good for developing collection plans. They aren't just "Random stuff involving lapis lazuli and amber" (although I've got a wodge of those that are actually really nice, so...) I could, in theory, make up collections where each piece was based on a character in a given book... We'll see what happens on that note, though. No promises.
In other news: My young miss should be arriving Toronto in the next half-hour or so, at which point I will give her a call and then (gratefully) take myself to bed. Hoy. I'm rather tired. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
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