No, you must be dreaming. Just as I am sound asleep in my bed so I can get up very early in the morning and trek off to the outskirts of planet earth (otherwise known as Parramatta).
So given that we re both dreaming the same dream, I ll share some new stuff with you which I ve very quickly (and fairly badly!
) photographed (yes - in my sleep!).
I ve been working very long and very hard on lots of jewellery over the last few days.
Yet I feel like I ve made very little progress! However, I ve been working on a fairly large batch of pieces all up, including a few new pieces which always take longer the first time around as I generally problem solve and pin down design elements as I m working rather than before I start. But I have finished a few new pieces tonight, which is a start!
First of all is a reversible pierced pendant. It s been hand cut from sterling silver, domed a little and given a muted black oxide finish one one side and a shiny silver finish on the other - it can be worn either way. I ve suspended it on a very delicate sterling silver chain which has a couple of turquoise beads to weight it at the end.
I ve had these sorts of very detailed cut out pieces in mind for months now and I m relieved to finally have one complete! I hope to have a series of these pieces underway soon - including earrings and possibly brooches.
Plus I ve finished some cufflinks - because men need jewellery at Christmas too!
One design is using some castings of a jacket which I hand carved a number of years ago. I ve used the design for a number of pieces, but I don t think I ve ever made cufflinks with it before, which seems fairly obvious now I think about it!
The other pair - which are very difficult to see properly in my very hurriedly taken photographs (too many dark reflections!
) - are a stencil cut out of Elvis Presley. These fit in with my recent cut out pendants of Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Deitrich. For the cufflinks I ve soldered the cut out panel onto another sheet of silver.
The background sheet has then been oxidised black where the cut out areas are.
Anyway, there s your sneak peak! I hope to have these items (and maybe even some more!
) photographed and in my jewelry shop in the next day or so.
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