Au Revoir, Biomorphically Hinged Bracelet!

This pretty darling sold today...a mixture of joy and sadness for me...I shouldn't worry, it's going to a good home and it's also an inanimate object.

Jewelry Deconstructed

There's a thrill in photographing one of my own paintings, cutting up the photo, & collaging it into a new context.  Now to start playing with my jewelry...

Installment #3 of the Cheeky Chimera Collection-

As implied by the title, these earrings are dripping with a glam rock glittering excess that still, somehow, stays both classy and elegant. How miraculous!

In fact, these earrings embody my notions of a Cheeky Chimera: a fantastical monster composed of vignettes from dreams and waking life...

Each earring is unambiguously different from it's mate, and still clearly belonging to it.

Hammered brass wire is intermixed with freshwater pearls, rhinestones, Swarovski crystals, and glass beads, and several accent details from recycled costume jewelry.
Chains dangle from each earring, adding graceful movement and accentuate a slender neckline.

Though loaded with panache, the earrings are amazingly lightweight!

See them in my shop: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38865186

Introducing The Cheeky Chimera Collection

Resolutions '09...how did I do?

I started this about a year ago on January 6 with a list of New Year's resolutions. Time to evaluate my success.

Here it goes:

• manage time better *ehhhh...I didn't make much progress on that one.
  
• $ - make more of it * I did, in fact, make more $ in '09 than in '08....good job!
  
• $ -manage it better too *Well, the jury's still out on that one.
  
• exercise everyday * I did prodigiously well on that one- up until late November...oops.
  
• eat some fresh vegetables, for heaven's sake! *I purposely left that rather vague, and did eat fresh veggies on rare occasions- success!
  
• do laundry weekly (the monthly method just isn't cutting it) *No comment
  
• make ART daily (yeah, that's a tall order) * That's a highly subjective one- but I made far more artwork than eat veggies.
  

Now, time to photograph previews from the Klewism Winter 2010 Collection. Think cold, icy winter white rhinestones and silver juxtaposed with fiery clusters of color...

Sublimated Embroidery Needle Brooch

Ball Bearing, Transfigured & Transported

The Ball Bearing Transfiguration necklace is about to be transported to New South Wales (as if it weren't enough to be transfigured).
It sold today, which is fabulous- of course, but I'll miss it nonetheless.