It's been a peacock kind of day...and a Schnauzer one too!

My first challenge for the day was a peacock chrysocolla jasper ring. I've already made a pendant out of one of the five stones...and I just had to try another ring. For this one, I actually did a woven wire ring base, which took up quite a bit of my day. It was wonderful though...sitting there listening to KLove and allowing the beautiful words from the songs they play to fill up my soul.


Since I was on a roll with the peacock stones...I opted to create a matching pair of earrings. They turned out lovely, and are a great match to the pendant.


And finally, I decided to turn this lovely porcelain cameo which features the elegant Schnauzer in grey, into a pendant. Hopefully someone with this breed of dog will choose this for a Christmas gift this year. :)

These jewels are not on my website yet, but they can be purchased in my Etsy shop.

Uh oh...I've made a ring....

Uh oh...this is not good...I've figured out how to make rings too. I *love* rings! Now there will probably be lots of rings coming out of the studio. This one is a HONKER though, because I used a piece I already had soldered and it was just whatever stone I grabbed to see if my idea would work. Now *I* like big rings...but I think for the "masses", I'd probably be better off going just a tad smaller. LOL this one is 1 1/4" long and is a size 8.5. It fits my middle finger on one hand...my first finger on another hand. It's a fabulous knock-you-out piece (literally...you pop someone in the nose with this and they're goin' DOWN! Ha!). The stone in this one is Russian Jade.

I also completed another bird pendant - this one is a Sun Conure. It turned out very elegant!


Plans for the week include some more rings as well as some earrings in addition to pendants, of course. :)