Inspiration for pieces explained: Silver Link and Vintage Glass Necklace and Bracelet

       

I found the glass beads in my great-grandfather's garage. I'm not sure where he got them from, but I assume they belonged to my great-grandmother. I wanted to show them off, so decided to mount them simply in silver.     

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Inspiration for pieces explained: Brushed Silver Necklace

       

I have had these beads for a while, and found them difficult to use because when you strung them together, they were either too tight to bend the strand, or the stringing material showed. A happy accident of pairing peridot with the silver made me realise they were made for each other, and the necklace was created. I love the brushed silver with the acid green, delicious! 

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Inspiration for pieces explained: Frothy Silver Earrings

      

This design was inspired by the Frothy Silver necklace (http://www.jewellerydragon.com/HTML/Products/N22038/Necklace.htm), and a commission piece I made just before Christmas. I loved the idea of graduating beads, it's very elegant, and reminiscent of Indian pieces.  

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On the bench: Happy Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dragon!

I started this piece because I've always wanted a piece of jewellery shaped like a dragon, and I wanted to do something really ambitious, just to see how it would work out. Plus, I also wanted to create a 'jewellery dragon', a symbol for the site.

So I started it a couple of weeks ago, just as I discovered that the 23rd of January is the start of the year of the dragon! Quite a coincidence...


AS you can see from the photos, the dragon is still unfinished. I have used emeralds for the main green of the body as well as green onyx as I wanted to make sure the skin had plenty of tones within it. 


The underbelly is yellow sapphires, as are the nostrils (I wanted to use black spinels, but the only size I had was fractionally too large), and I used rubies for the eyes. To set the eyes I used head pins, just so that he had a pair of mad, staring pupils to give him that staring look!


But as I said, he's still unfinished. I need to complete the gem settings, finish doing wire sculpture on his face and feet, fill in the body where there are gaps...but I think you can see enough to see what an amazing dragon he will be!


(And we've called him George http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlVqfC8-UI)


I'm going to set him on quite a thick chain, with a pearl hovering just above him, after all, dragons chase pearls... but most of this is still up for debate, I may go for a medium chain if I decide a thick one is too much. Because of the weight of the piece I can't go for too thin!


I'll post back once he's done!

 

This is the back....

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