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.

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...