More Nuggets

Sorry I have been very busy with making not much time to blog. 

Band-aid Ring

This is the story of a ring that needed to be rescued.
I cast a lot of my stuff. Casting does not always mean easier!! It is still time consuming. So when a ring or a cast element does not come out right it is still frustrating. This ring was about to be thrown into the melting pot (the beauty of metal when some thing doesn't work out). I had an idea, maybe it could be rescued.
As you can see it has a big hole in it.

I filed the hole so I could insert a piece of metal 

 I then soldered a piece of gilding metal (a mixture of copper and brass) into the space.

 I then cut and filed it away to be part of the ring.

I chose the gilding metal because I wanted the mending to be obvious. We all have a scar or two!!

Nugget Rings

Here are my new Nugget Rings in bronze and silver and silver. I have been playing around with finishes and have polised one bronze nugget and left the other silver and bronze nuggets matt.

I am very happy with how they turned out. Watch this space for more...

300 Giveaway

So I have reached 300 likes on my Facebook page, whoop! whoop! Thanks to all of you for your support. As a way of saying thanks I thought that I would give back. I will be giving away my star necklace, as you are all stars.
What to do??? You need to like the Facebook post if you want to be in the giveaway. The necklace is handmade from sterling silver with a matt finish on a 45cm sterling silver chain. I will do the draw on Thursday 15 August.

Nuggets and fools gold

So I have been slightly creative this year so far. I decided to make a ring that matched my Geometric studs. I think that nugget is a better term for them though.

They are hand filed metal nuggets that I then make into rings. The fools gold one is actually a metal called gilding metal, it has a rosey/brassy look, somewhat like rose gold.

In the top picture the one is matt and the other polished.

More Geometric

Here is one of my geometric pendant with a "gold" side (it is gilding metal). Love the contrast of colour.

Faceted ring. This is a great unisex ring. It would look great on a guy or girl.

Geometric Earrings

Here are some more earrings. I love that the elements move on the earring hook, changing position all the time. So sometimes the pairs will be the same and other times different. They are made with sterling silver with the "gold" elements in bronze.