Iam putting the finishing touches on our new work that we have just finished. As we will be heading out on Thurs. for the Mendocino show. Afterwards we have planed a slow drive down the coast hwy. 1 to Bodega. After a couple days there will drive on down and over to Watsonville, Ca. where we have reservations to stay at Pinto Lake RV Resort for a couple weeks. While we are doing the Bargetto Summer Arts show. Then finish off the month with the 3 day Gilroy Garlic Festival.
The following are highlights of what I finished up over the past few days.
Long designer cut cabochon of an interesting coco brown agate. This is thought to be a fossilized wood. I have bezel set the stone using 30 gauge sterling silver bezel wire. Extending the back 24 gauge sterling sheet on the left side and bottom so I could add texture and tooling. Also added an edge of 16 gauge round wire to this and in a free form design around the piece. The bail is tooled and is large enough for an omega or larger chain.
approx. size: 4 1/2 in. long by 1 1/4 in. wide set price: $375.
Matching earrings are below
Here are the matching earrings to the above pendant. As you can see I have added similar texture and tooling in the design around the bezeled cabochons..
Size: 1 1/2 in. long by 1 in. wide. I have soldered heavy duty sterling silver posts to center back and have large adjustable backs included.
These two items are a set, and are priced together at $375.00
This is another pendant with matching earrings.....
Designer cut cabochon of Owhee Jasper. I have bezel set this piece, then extended the sheet silver partly up for design work to be added. Heavily textured and tooled design accents added to left side. Along with a pretty 5mm round London Blue Topaz facet. Then I added hand made leaves and some copper wire textured for color to accent the colors in the stone. This piece has a large hand forged loop bail at the back that will fit most any Omega or larger chain.
Colors: soft gray blues with rust brown, and coco brown
These are the matching earrings
to the above pendant. The "tongue" cut cabochons are a beautiful color match to the pendant stone. I have "cap" bezel set each and added design accents to top that compliment the pendant, including matching London Blue topaz.
Sterling Silver heavy duty french ear wires, with soft plastic backs.
Size: 2 in. long by 1/2 in wide
colors noted: soft gray blue; rust and coco browns
Price: $275.00 for the set
These are just a few items that we will have at the Mendocino Show. There are many other items of interest. Some will be listed on our Etsy store: wearablemetalartjfh.etsy.com
I will be adding more over the next few days as time permits.
Also, during the past month I have been working on our website again. This time I am re-vamping the entire site. As I am looking to promote custom work with our stones and yours. So, I have added a page to explain the process and will be adding several pages of some completed work over the past. With the hope that by viewing the photos you will be inspired to have something made just for you.
The finished items that we have for sale with be listed in our Etsy Store only.
Well, looking forward to seeing you soon at one of our summer shows.
Still cool...and have a great summer....
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