Sales!

My friend Crystal Lee bought four pieces today, including the ones above. Such good taste!

On sales and a new piece

A fair number of pieces have been sold in my store, including five that were on reserve for Irene, a customer from China who has bought a collection of pieces of mine. I wish I would sell so much each week! how wonderful that would be. In other news, the interview in the magazine "jewelry world" (Mundo Joyero) is already published, it ended up being a four page spread with lots of interesting pictures and the interview is very neat, it makes me sound so interesting and smart. I will post some pictures from it as soon as I get my magazine back, I lent it to a teacher.

This is my newest piece, it is made with a hand-painted German doll. I love how this turned out.

Some new stuff I made and that is now in my Etsy shop.

This is a beautiful doll, hand painted, with a very interesting face. The hanging tassel is red coral beads. Red sari silk in the back.
This one is a white leg, I painted it myself, it was kind of pink. The faux-pearl element is vintage from Aviva, it is very intricate.
These are porcelain arms, with a little movement. I love these doll parts. I just bought a small collection of doll heads from Germany, I am waiting for them to arrive. The bigger heads make interesting statement pieces, a bit scary, but very beautiful.

German Doll

I made a necklace with one of my dolls that still had rust and dirt from having being in the ground for more than 100 years.

I also made a pair of earrings with Hessonite garnet, and I like how they turned out. A bit rustic, but I like them. Free-formed by hand and wire-wrapped.
I was interviewed for an Italian blog, and it looks like the entry came out really nice. You can read it here. the questions were very inspiring.

Talking about interviews, the magazine from Mexico that ended up doing a 4 page spread about my work suppose to come out tomorrow. I can't wait to see it!

Dolls

These mysterious pieces are ready to go into my Etsy shop.

For sale in my shop!

Must of last year's series in my Etsy shop is now for sale. This includes a lot of my doll necklaces - from last year - and some of the vintage elements. This year's work is full price, but I have been making some more reasonably priced pieces specially for my online shop, integrating the silk from Nepal. My work with Gemstones is priced the highest, but it is worth it because of all the gems and semiprecious stones I am integrating. Still, visit my shop to have a look at the sales.

Custom order

I just sold the piece below to someone in NY who asked me to make it for them. It was a fluke I had the pair of arms that she wanted. The image above is the photo she sent me, and the photo below is the piece I made for her, now in the mail to NYC.

Sale

Some stuff in my store is now for sale, some assemblage pieces with the German porcelain doll I made last year, part of the series "Inner child - cosmic child". Please check it out!

Eye Candies giveaway

This week, my friend Aphrodite from Eye Candies is arranging a giveaway of one of my pieces. You can choose from one of the pieces below. The conditions are as follows:

This week’s lucky winner will have the chance to choose between 2 surreal moving part brooches featuring a porcelain doll leg from the 1890s and decorated with vintage elements. Utterly fabulous and original! In order to enter the contest and win one of the brooches by Venus, you have to: 1) Choose and comment on your favorite piece from Vintage Venus online shop, and 2) Be a follower of the EyeCandies Blog or Facebook Group. You can gain ONE additional entry if you also follow Venus’s blog!

You can find the post here.

Interesting people

Today I met with Safi. I had such a great time chatting away with her, she's a very smart, handsome, interesting person, I would really like to be friends with her. She bought a very mysterious piece with her name all over it, I was proud to see such a lovely person wearing one of my more experimental pieces.

Another doll necklace and new pieces

Odd and funny brooch using a doll's leg.




I recently assembled the doll piece. I also am making new works that are a bit bridal, inspired by my friend's wedding that will happen this august.

Treasury

A piece in my shop on Etsy, which has very few pieces- though very good ones - was in a Treasury today. Lots of activity about my jewelry.

More venetian baroque art

Some new interesting pieces.

Cosmic child/ Inner child

Better pictures of these works made with antique bisque and porcelain dolls from Germany, un-earthed near the toy factory in Thuringia. These dolls were made in the 1890s and buried, and now people are selling them online. I am integrating them to my works and like them very much. Pushing the medium on jewelry a bit, I am very inspired to create a new series.