Jewelry, inspired by Nature
About designing handmade jewellery
Recycling jewellery: why should you do it? Sometimes the jewellery pieces created long ago don’t fly. They don’t sell, they bear all those tiny de-tails (let’s say honestly, de-fects) from the past which you would never reproduce with your current … Continued
IMHO reproducing jewellery is boring, it’s something for serial manufacture, not for a hobby jewellery-maker who wants to learn different techniques. It is also a mission impossible because materials, stones, tools, skills – even mood – can change with the time. That’s … Continued
Ring earring set: shall the ring and the earrings be identical if they belong to the same jewellery set? Some time ago I ran into a set of three gorgeous banded agate gemstones. No gemstone is more creatively striped by Nature … Continued
In my opinion, one of the main differences between love and friendship is that friends are able to see our strengths and weaknesses, while lovers see us through pink glasses. It’s been almost 5 years since I fell in love with … Continued
A nice and funny example of custom jewellery design. A couple of months ago I made this Egyptian cat, wrapped in a crescent moon-shape around a mysterious fluorite stone. After it was put on sale I received a message from … Continued
Tumbled gemstone jewellery is challenging for a jewelry maker. Their irregular shapes are difficult to fit into a standard bezel. Very often the only way to hang them onto something is to drill a hole through them. Drilling requires special … Continued
Reproducing custom made jewellery is very difficult. Here is just a story. I received an order to reproduce a pair of earrings with a different stone color. It looked quite easy, but turned out to be a real challenge. … Continued
It can be challenging to duplicate.objects when making silver clay earrings Lizards have fantastic body shapes: ideal to be shaped in silver clay. Making a lizard on a leaf pendant is probably no big deal, but making earrings is a … Continued
These are the silver clay cat earrings… They are not exact copies of each other, but come quite close.
Yesterday, in attempt to recycle an absolutely failed fine silver piece, I melted the silver to a lump which vaguely reminded me of a tulip. After some carving and filing the tulip shape became so distinct that I decided to … Continued