AJE

Please go here to see my latest addition to AJE Earring challenge.

Paris Calling

Oh no, nothing serious, just a lovely necklace I made! 

Ok, the pendant is a compact frame within which is an Eiffel tower on one side and calligraphic writing 'Paris' on the other. I got it - 'I dont know what I wanted to buy trip to the closest beadshop'. Hm, long time back. I dont remember who the maker was, sorry. But I made a necklace with it. Finally. Check this out.  

Hm, and a myriad of beads - turquoise, turquoise glass, garnet, seaglass, frosted glass flowers, multicolored glass rondelles, sunstone, blue glass beads, daisy spacers, part of a toggle clasp to act as a connector(Boy, toggles do act as beautiful functional connectors, especially when you cant find the matching toggle bar. A lonely toggle bar can always get help from a correct sized large jumpring! Thats why I guess, we all have stash and rubbish, all stocked up, as precious.)

And as I always do, not consciously though, use of two metals! It just happened the bezel was steel and my lonely toggle was antique gold. So i kept the wrapping silver and the real clasp to the necklace goldtone. 

AJE Challenge - Week 5 & 6

It has been some weeks since I worked with copper, one of my favorite materials. So, I dug out my copper coil, and thought. What should it be this time. Why not try some Celtic knots? Sounded interesting. So, there we go - this one took birth! A bit of oxidising, and a tiny bunch of deep red danglers, and I think she looks poised.

What do you think?

One more

And, this is my first hand with sheet metal. This is my next entry to the challenge! 

I cant part with these, this is going to be with me!!

Do you know what this technique is? I did what was just rolling out from my imagination, not sure whether it falls in any 'category'!!

Focus on Life 5/52

My Life : Week 5 : Photo 5

When I read the prompt by Sally Russick this week, I was like "Man, I have been doing this forever". It all started when I accidentally started seeing heart shapes in the most unexpected places. What a joy, to share this. Actually, I havent thought about sharing this for so long, it just dint occur to me. But I first found something fresh, and not from the archive for the prompt. The ones I have found over the years have been listed after that. Welcome to see those.

Do trees ever talk? Yes they do!! This tree told me something. A little story of pain, and a story of joy.

It might have hurt while that branch was cut off.. But later the tree might have become really happy that it was for good, after all.. To constantly remind anyone looking up to it, that "My heart sees you". 

Like some directions we humans too branch out, would not be good. But when God nips off that branch, dont be frustrated, it was for good, it was to create more love in our lives... See, like this we are stamped with love every day. Open you heart - thats all it takes...

A close up, it was quite a tall tree!

And here are the other places I've spotted LOVE! 

Behind the apartment I used to live, in India. this one stood in a huge empty hillside plot, but  lovestruck!

And this too..

The sky reminded me "You are Loved" - In Dearborn (In this world where everything can be altered, I must say, this photo was never been open in the EDIT window. This is By Nature, pure)

The above seen cloud disappeared by the time I previewed this pic on my camera. I was indeed happy that I could capture it.

And this, while we were driving around last spring!

A heart ready to embrace!

And this is something I found inside the house

Click me to see the love!

and this one : I make everytime just to make my hubby smile, something I have been doing from the time we met, 14 years back! Candy Foil!

A habit that would never stop!! 

Now lets go to TheStudioSublime to see where other people have found love.

AJE Challenge : Week 3

Here's my latest for AJE Earring challenge

A rustic boho earrings, with forged elements :

With handforged patina-ted connector and Chinese charms. Embellished with wirewrapped serpentine. I have tried to create a balance with steel, gold and brass.

And a fun romantic pair for Valentine's :

This is a mismatched pair, one is stuffed with love, other is overflowing with love. Love - in either form is sweet!! A pair of wooden beads were handpainted, and a bit of leather, and two porcelain beads which has that blood red tint, holds together the feel of the earring pair!

Focus on Life 4/52

My Life : Week 4 Photo 4

Sometimes some people holds a bright mirror against us, an enlarging mirror in fact, and make us see some faboulous things we have long forgotten about ourselves. And now Miss.Sally Russick has done(is doing) just that to me(us). She has refreshed the whole being that is me, just in the past 3 weeks! I just wonder how much more of myself she will help discover. But one thing is for sure, she is going to transform each of us into much much better and confident and self aware human beings, by the end of 2013.

This week's prompt for "Focus on Life" was "Create Art". Indulge in anything that helps you create art. Free your heart of trapped energy. Let colors fill your soul. And I did that, this week. Actually her prompt made me do many a creative thing, but I am presenting the one which is most colorful. I love colors!! 
PS: I made it just today, I wonder how many of you might have spent the week waiting for that "twitch" moment, jump in and create and call it ART, finally!! 

Check this out

My Word For The Year Inscribed On This : FLOURISH

Come join me now, to head towards "TheStudioSublime" for enjoying some creative stuff by my friends!

BSBP!!! Here it is!!

Its here its here.. This Year's Bead Soup Blog Party at Pretty Things blog by Lori Anderson! Just signed up here.. Hope to see some of you there. Cant wait to get the party going!