Bronze Glorious Bronze!
It has been a hectic three weeks and I have been pumping out the bronze like crazy. I love the rich tones of bronze and have been creating up a storm this last month. I have not abandoned my beloved silver but since the price has increased almost 128% from this time last year I decided that this would be a great time to create more designs in bronze and I really am loving the results, most of the time!
To the right are several pieces fresh from the kiln including my new logo tags, earring components, an angel, rugged cross and many more. They have not been cleaned or polished yet and are full of carbon dust from the firing chamber in the kiln, oh what possibilities. I can't wait to get started designing with them. Pictured below are several of the designs once they are finished.
I have had so many people interested in my award winning Mother Nature necklace but the amount of silver in the original design makes its a costly piece, so this summer I'm introducing the birth of "Baby Nature"! Made out of bronze she is a smaller version of her mama and wears a leaf bonnet over her head. She still holds nature close to her heart as her mama taught her.
I have had this image of an angel for years and thought she would make a lovely necklace and decided to team her up with a swarovski crystals and a little wire work. I really love how she came out and will me making many more of these I'm sure. I wasn't able to capture the color in this piece but the crystals are rich plums and blues. I think this one it mine!
Last year Ken and I were walking the beach up at St. Joe and we found a great piece of driftwood that I made and impression of. I have been using it to make crosses. This one came out of the kiln with the most interesting color variations of pale gold and blue grey. I thought it would look nice to team it up with faceted labradorite rondells. It came out really nice.
I don't make many small pieces of jewelry and thought these little caps would make sweet necklaces with just the right gemstones. I bought crab fire agates in two different colors last summer and I thought the turquoise ones would go nicely with these little caps. Teamed up with crystals and a little wire wrap swirls this makes a cute necklace for those who like things on the smaller side.
And last but not least are some new earring designs. Simple dangles that sway and are as light as can be. I'm working on many more new earring designs and hopefully I'll be able to share them with you in the next couple of weeks. For now these two new designs will have to temp you.
There are several other components in that basket that I have to work up yet but it won't be long now before the tell me what they want to be!
To make it out of bronze would be a chunk of metal and I would need to make it fluid and curve to a women's shape. If I didn't it would end up looking like a sword ready for battle. 
