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.

Speaking of color

And yet another instance of synchronicity in the Universe! All my talk about color yesterday, and, behold, I sell the Any Color You Like ring the very next day.*

*note: referring to today.

Have you ever watched "The Wizard of Oz" with the volume all the way down while listening to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"?
Isn't that a required right of passage into adulthood?

One of the highlights of that experience, for me, is when the song titled "Any Color You Like" begins as the 'horse of a different color' makes his appearance in the Emerald City... Synchronicity!!

This ring is EVERY color you like: purple, burgundy, teal, green, navy blue, sky blue, gold, and a few shades that are somewhere more ambiguous on the color spectrum.

This one is a size 7.

I have a special fondness for this ring, remembering heavily incensed evening ceremonies repeating the time honored ritual of superimposing the Dark Side of the Moon over The Wizard of Oz...

Goodbye, Polychromatic Scintillation...

Today I sold a custom made ring that really captures my current spell of color- mania, as the title suggests. I take it that Klewism is going to be playing bold games with color combinations this season...Hell, I'm just going to go with it.

Here is the ring with it's etsy description:

I started the ring with the intention of using almost exclusively green and red accents against the brass or copper of the ring structure (while still avoiding the "Christmas tree" look).I confess, my intentions of sticking to a highly selective palette were soon forgotten and I got lost in the ensuing debauch of hues that followed...An Ultramarine freshwater pearl, a bright teal nugget of turquoise, Swarovski crystals, semiprecious stones, seed beads and other Czech glass beads with an 'aurora borealis' finish, are combined in surprising juxtapositions of matte and gloss, rough and smooth, transparent and opaque, subdued and vivid. In short, my modest ideas for a ring with reds and greens, evolved into a scintillating carousal of color.

A Klewism Necklace in Creepy Queen Magazine...

Yes, How I love free surprise publicity! Thanks, Creepy Queen for including me in the article, "Scary Splurges".
Being fond of the slightly macabre, I take no offense at the adjective 'scary' referring to my necklace.

Here's the link to the article:

http://www.creepyqueenmagazine.com/apps/blog/entries/show/1496374-scary-splurges-

Of plumage and Exoskeletons...

I was asked this morning where I get my inspiration for the color schemes in my jewelry. That's a big question involving mood, environs, music, literature, bugs, and birds.
Let me explain the 'bugs and birds' part, because that probably sounds odd.


Bugs: I mean specifically beetle types that have brilliant iridescent exoskeletons. I could stare at them for hours if they happened to be dead, and consequently unable to fly away from me. "Even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these"- I use that praise Jesus so aptly appropriated to the lilies and extend it to exoskeletons, if no one objects. I've used resin-preserved Stag Beetles and "June Bugs" in pendents and earrings so that I can go around sportin' an exoskeleton too! Why should bugs have all the fun?



Birds: Specifically their feathers- vividly iridescent and ever-changing in movement and light. The very structure of the feather enhances the depth and brilliance of the colors perceivable in it. I have had a mania for peacock feathers since I was a young child. The jeweled tones of a peacock feather have been motifs in my paintings from the first, and now in my jewelry as well.

So, a big 'thank you' from me to all those birds and bugs out there, inspiring color schemes for people like myself.