Monday, June 02, 2008

Wire Wrapping Excess

I set off to make a few pieces of jewellery for friends this weekend, and just kept going. The zips have reappeared, I have wrapped quartz, fabric, lace, glass, string, thread and more. It was so soothing matching colours then simply wrapping wire around each piece, I like the feel of all the different textures beneath my fingers combined with the supple copper as it runs through my fingers. All of the pieces here are now for sale at my Etsy store. I will show you the others when they have arrived at their new homes.
The beautiful skeleton leaves I photographed these on were collected from below the lemon tree this morning; the snails and slugs were enjoying stripping them clean just for me. I think these ones (the leaves, not the snails) will become the background for some journals.

I hope all the West Australians have enjoyed this long weekend.

9 comments:

Jacky said...

Soooo beautiful Julie (love that gorgous pink bracelet) and great to see the re-emergence of the zips. They really appeal to me for some reason....maybe my love of sewing??

Steph said...

Beautiful pieces ! I'm not a pink person but the quartz bracelet won my heart!

Ursula Clamer said...

These look fab Julie, I especially like the pink one....I was so tempted that I actually pulled out the tape measure! ...too big, oh well, next time perhaps. Your journals are lovely too, great colour. Ux

Dot said...

Beautiful work Julie. Particularly like the pink bracelet - stunning!

I am giggling as I type this as Esmeralda is rubbing her chin on the top left hand side of my laptop. And I swear she is looking at your blog as I type this!

Still Waters Studio said...

I love the new jewelry especially the zipper earrings and the new journals are beautiful too.
Sherry

Janet said...

Your jewelry is so beautiful and so unique. I love it all.

Gaby Bee said...

What a great idea to create zipper earrings! Truly unusual! Love your bracelets also.

Ro Bruhn said...

Lovely work Julie and the slugs have made lovely work of your lemon tree leaves too.

gunnelsvensson said...

Beautiful work and lovely pictures !