My Jewelry: couture and ready to wear

school has started and I was ready to make some new jewelry pieces! The first project was angle raising which I already had a few ideas about what i wanted to do and i was ready to get started but because our class was so big our teacher split the project in half. Half of the class is doing angle raising and the other half is doing die forming, and because I already had my project figured out for angle raising chances were I was doing die forming (Murphy's law and all).

I was right and ended up in the die forming group. I had a few ideas but none that i really wanted to commit to. on top of that I also wanted to make two projects, because I'm an over achiever ;) the reason why is that I wanted to make two projects is I'm in intermediate 2 and i feel like I need to show more.  more skills, more time management, more pieces.

Thanks to project runway (that inspired what I did for my project) I decided to make a "couture" necklace, as well as a "ready to wear" piece because in fashion that is what designers do.  I knew that I wanted the couture piece to be big and the ready to wear to be more easy to wear.

I enameled the die formed pieces. I wanted the colors to be bright. I made a lot of samples of which colors I wanted to use. I also wanted the colors to fade in to each other. I also hand made the chain. I used foxtail weave and a double loop and loop.  I love these pieces and wanted to share them with you because I always talk about showing you guys what I'm doing so here they are! i hope you love them as much I do!
xo
jes

the game of life

well since i've been gone i have gone to new york and changed my major yes yes i am that girl. the girl who thinks she know what she wants to do with the rest of her life and when she likes something like say drawing she changes it. which i did more times than i care to admit but this time its different. seriously it's the only thing i think about, what is this new major that is all you think about you say? its METAL SMITHING! yes i took the jump to make pretty things and i've very excited about it! i keep saying that i'm going to share thing and don't but it was because i did not have a camera and now that i do i will photograph them, but in the mean time this is a pin that i made for a pin swap at school. i have so much to share ill be back.

cheers

jes

inspiration for rings

the first assignment in my metal smithing is to cast two rings and with one of the two you need to set stones on them. which since my sister already took this class i knew what to expect, however i had no idea what to make given the fact that i had prepared all winter break for this. when push came to shove there was nothing that i was excited about to actually make it into a ring. let alone add stones.

any one who knows me knows i love chunky jewelry, but i didn't know how to approach this because i knew i didn't want a big stone with something typical around it. i knew i wanted something special, that no one had but every one would go "man i want that ring, or that ring is so cool." is that too much pressure? maybe but i can't help my self. that is my problem i want to make amazing things that nothing can hold up to my standards.




so fast forward to the conversation my mother and sister and i had while eating dinner.  Mom :    "remember when you were little and we went to the zoo? and all you and your sister did was pick up stones. you would put them in your pockets and i didn't have the heart to throw them away."

then it hit me why not try to update that story? so now i'm designing pieces that are inspired by that story.
 can't wait to share my sketches!
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 love and cupcakes



   

back to school blues

ok it was actually a great day. i had my first metal smithing class of this semester and i'm super excited to start designing pieces that i love and would wear like i do with the first pieces that i made. were also going to do some alternative materials project which i already have so many idea's for. i'm just so inspired to start making things again!  this time i will let you in to the studio madness and sharing processes of how i design a piece!

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love and cupcakes