It has been a positive whirlwind of end of school & family activities here lately: prom, graduation, a graduation party and prep to head off to a job at a summer camp for 5 weeks for E plus soccer, swim team, finals etc for M. I’m getting through focusing on one thing at a time. While that helps to keep me from feeling overwhelmed, it also means that I’m in a sort of constant panic as we jump from event to appointment to event to whatever. And given the outrageous price of gas, I am spending way too much time in my car.
So, it’s appropriate that my one thing at a time focus has produced exactly one piece of finished jewelry.
I made this pendant to go with the outfit I wore to E’s graduation (a brown linen tank dress with a pale turquoise linen shirt). I like it, even though it reflects the speed with which I threw it together. The darker turquoise circle is off kilter, but the effect is less pronounced while wearing it than it is in the photo. This pendant has one weird aspect: the light turquoise circle was stamped with chalk ink, and then stamped again slightly off registration with an interference ink. When the interference ink catches the light properly, the piece has a subtle turquoise flash. But when you view the piece dead on with regular light, that layer just looks a bit dirty. Oh well.
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I think it’s beautiful and your metal work just gives it that extra punch! I’m sure you got lots of great comments when you wore it. BTW I’m working on a pendant using one of the bead frames and ultra-lite clay…kind of frustrating but fun!
Thanks Susan! The bead frames can be really frustrating. If you are using UL with them, I’d recommend mixing a good amount of regular polymer clay in with the UL to make it easier to use in the bead frame.
Congratulations on being the mother of a graduate! How exciting a time that must be.
As far as the pendant goes - I love it. Those are great colors, and if you hadn’t mentioned it, I’d have said the dark circle was off-center on purpose. It doesn’t look “thrown together” at all to me!
It doesn’t look thrown together to me, either! I love the texture of the brown against the patterns of the turquoises and silver - is that clay or fabric? It’s very suede-y looking in the photo.
Hi Libby,
Your pendant is gorgeous. I love the interplay of textures and the color with the silver. I bet it looked fabulous with your outfit. I like the fact that the turquoise circle isn’t centered. It’s wabi sabi.
Libby, this piece is just gorgeous! If I were you, I’d throw ‘my story’ out the window and view this piece freshly. Off centre is perfect. The tones are not dirty, but muted. Truly, it’s clear your audience sees is a really eyecatching piece! Thrown together pieces often end up to be my favorite pieces…maybe it’s because I got my brain out of the road and surrendered to letting the piece makes itself, maybe it’s because it reflects that sense of sponteniety and creativity…but this is one of those pieces and I reckon you got it ‘just right’!
I like the “offkilterness” of the turquoise circle. The piece is a lovely marriage of materials.
i love this pendant - it´s really beautiful - the combination of clay and silver - great - and the colors are wonderful - i would like to see you in your dress with this pendant!
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