just curious as to what your favorite piece of jewelry is. If you could design something just for you what would it be. I would love to hear from anyone who has an opinion. My favorite piece is my goddess pendant. I wear that everyday.
Permalink Reply by Zena on December 1, 2008 at 1:48pm
I love 'big' jewellery! I like to make a statement with the colour or form.
I adore natural products and love the colours---green and brown!
I hate 'jewels' and glitzy stuff-no to pearls, precious stones and plastic!
I too love color, that is one thing I am working on with metal. While working in silver is great it is lacking one thing for me, COLOR> I will be experimenting with enamels soon and seeing how I can put color and form together.
My favorite is the pair of earrings I made for my 44th birthday. I won a matched pair of 4.4 carat (each), long, green, tourmaline briolettes on ebay, and wrapped them with solid 18K wire. They look just like Howl's earrings in the movie, Howl's Moving Castle. I also have a 18K labradorite necklace that I made for the previous birthday, that I love, too. I love the way the blue fire in the labradorite looks against the yellow of the gold! The two look great together.
The funny thing is I design Jewelry but very rarely wear any at all. But that might have something to do with the fact that I design Children Jewelry….. It would just look funny on me!
I too have never been much of a jewelry person. WOuld rather have a tool or art supply for a gift than jewelry. That is why i never considered it for an artistic career. My daughter talked me into a jewelry class her college professor was running. It was there I fell in love with working in metals. Funny how we get to where we are. I still have to work to remember to put my own jewelry on when I go out.