Vintage rhinestone ring

This is the last one of the assemblage rings I made. I love it so much I may keep it. It is made with a vintage rhinestone miniature brooch and an antiqued brass filigree ring.

Rhinestone rings

This are the rings I pasted together with the antiqued filigree backing. There is one more, and it turned out SO beautiful I think I may just keep it. I'll photograph it tomorrow.

Vintage rings

My friend Marina from fancifuldevices gave me some vintage buttons. I pasted them to blank antiqued brass filigree rings, and the results are beautiful, old looking. I was so happy with the results that I decided to make some rhinestone rings. this is what I came up with.

Work and more work

This is my newest work. In these, I am integrating crystals that I have soldered myself in various ways. I am going for an avant-garde Victorian tribal feel to the pieces. I am also integrating pyrite, freshwater pearls, and plenty of semiprecious stones.

I really like this one, it is called "Red and crystal".

This one is the most tribal one.




Anyways, I have been working a lot and I just love it. I am very pleased with the results.

Rings, rings, rings

I finally took some pictures of the rings I made. They are all silver plated with gold leaf in the inside, and different objects, cabochons and organic materials.

I am very pleased with this one, it is coral branch with a garnet cabochon that shines beautifully in the light.
This one has an ammonite fossil.
This one has a sea shell I found in the beach here in Vancouver.
This one has a moonstone cabochon that glows in the light.
This one has a branch of coral sea fan. I made two like this.

Doll necklace

My rings are all done and cured, and as they were hardening I made this necklace, now in my etsy whop.

Rings

At last! I got my new resin in the mail. I had old resin, but after a test I did last week, I discovered that it had passed its shelf life, so I discarded it and ordered new one. I just finished a series of rings that were waiting for the resin to arrive. This rings are silver plated, but next time I make rings will all be sterling silver. More expensive for sure, but better quality. I have a whole new idea of a series of rings with sterling silver. I need to wait 24 hours to see how this series turns out though. It's looking good! They are all silver plated, with a gold leaf interior, and different objects inside. The gold leaf looks very nice with the resin, it really shines. More on the outcome tomorrow.

Blue

Jewelry world magazine

A jewelry magazine from Mexico, called Jewelry World (Mundo Joyero) contacted me because they want to interview me and have a several page spread on my jewelry, portraying me as an emerging jewelry designer. They will have a professional photographer shot my pieces, and a journalist will interview me via skype. They want a very small portrait of me, to publish along with the interview so I took some head shots wearing my favorite pieces. They say they saw an add my mom published online with a picture of one of my necklaces, they followed the links and fond me. Wow!

Rose brooch

A new brooch I made as a collaboration with my friend Marina, she gave me the flower and I added a vintage heart locket and a German porcelain doll.

Dolls

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

Gemstones

New work full of gemstones and crystals and sparkly vintage rhinestones.

Mysticism

Mysticism (from the Greek μυστικός, mystikos, an initiate of a mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with, identity with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, instinct or insight.

Nullification and absorption within God's Infinite Light (Hassidic schools of Judaism)
Deep intrinsic connection to ultimate reality (Satori in Mahayana Buddhism, Te in Taoism)
Union with God (Henosis in Neoplatonism and Brahma-Prapti or Brahma-Nirvana in Hinduism, fana in Sufism)
Theosis or Divinization, union with God and a participation of the divine nature (in Catholic Christianity and Eastern Orthodoxy)
Innate Knowledge, (Irfan and Sufism in Islam)
Experience of one's true blissful nature (Samadhi Svarupa-Avirbhava in Hinduism and Buddhism)
Seeing the Light, or "that of God", in everyone (Hinduism, Quakerism)
The Love of God (Hinduism, Baha'i Faith, Christianity, Islam)

Enlightenment or Illumination are generic English terms for the phenomenon, derived from the Latin illuminatio (applied to Christian prayer in the 15th century) and adopted in English translations of Buddhist texts, but used loosely to describe the state of mystical attainment regardless of faith. Entheogens have been traditionally used by many from various religions and cultures throughout the majority of every region of the world to help assist one with Mysticism.

Vintage Mary and child charm with divine child on the back, large rhinestone, fire polished Czech crystal beads, agate. 2 inches in length from the end of the hand-forged hooks.

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.

Button earrings

My new button earrings, made with mother of pearl vintage buttons and antique rhinestone pieces.