This is what I made in last week’s metal/jewelry class. The stone appears to be a sort of flaming red plume agate.
Category: Jewelry
Shard
A ring made of some left-over amethyst shards and silver.
Twig
This week in jewelry class I tried to do something a little more feminine and dainty. I did want the pearls to be the same colour, but the instructor insisted I use two colours. She also indicated that I should make the flowers differ in size next time – I agree with that.
Edit:
The two colours bugged me too much, so I changed the pink pearl. It is lacking in contrast, but I like the overall blue-ish tone of it better now.
My Cryptonite
Jewelry classes started again this week. I’m looking forward to fifteen weeks of learning and creating. This is the ring I made with the agate I bought on my trip to South Africa.
Cryptonite, Agate and Silver, 2015
Cryptonite, Agate and Silver, 2015
*Crypto because agate is a cryptocrystalline, and -nite because wordplay.
Cape Town, I Miss You
Three weeks from today, I get on a plane bound for Cape Town. While I do enjoy winter and the beautiful scenery the snow creates, the freezing temperatures don’t exactly make me want to leave my apartment. This i♥CapeTown ring is the result of me being cooped up and counting the days until I arrive in Cape Town.
i♥CapeTown ring, brass, 2014
Feel Good Inc.
Over the past few weeks in jewelry class, my confidence and skill has improved to the point where I am comfortable enough to attempt more complex designs like this one.
Feel Good Inc.
This one is relatively personal: my birthstone is amethyst, half of my father’s family is from the Netherlands – thus the windmill mixed with the lighthouse, and I’ve always wanted to live on an island far, far away from people. But mostly it was inspired by the floating/flying island in the Gorillaz Feel Good Inc. music video. This one was fun to make.
Inspired by the Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc. music video. (Amethyst and Silver)
Adorn Me
“Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” – Michael LeBoeuf
One of the perks of having a university teaching position in Korea, is that you have 16 weeks of paid vacation time. I don’t know when in my life I’ll ever have this much time to myself again, so I’m planning to use as much of it as possible to travel or to learn a new skill.
During this past summer vacation I took a 8 week metal/jewelry class at the Daejeon Citizen’s College. I enjoyed it immensely and I’m planning to continue the next term. This is what I’ve made thus far.
Cooper Union, Villa Savoye, and Familia Sagrada. (Brass)
Casablanca (1942), The Godfather (1972), and North by Northwest (1959). (Copper)
To give you a sense of scale.
Goldfish. (Copper)
Goldfish. (Silver)
As my confidence and skill grew, I decided to make a pendant that I had designed when I was in high school. Back then I entered a jewellery competition and won in my category (fantasy). The prise was that the piece would be made and exhibited in the store. At some point the jewellers asked if they could try a new enamel technique, and gave me the option of bright pink or baby blue. Being young and inexperienced at following through with design intent – I said yes. I should have said no. I learned never to have one’s designs used to experiment on again. Elven years later I acquired the skill to make the pendant as I intended it.
Fantasy. (Silver)
Suné Horn 
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