Here are a few pieces I finished this week. You can find them in my etsy shop at annieswearableart.
I had to come up with some really special Mother's day gifts, and gifts for graduates this Spring. Lauren (niece) graduated from Transy this past weekend, and is heading to law school at NKU at the end of the summer. Besides my dear friends, we have 7 girls in the family that are very close(aunt, nieces and great-nieces and an adopted aunt!) and I didn't want to give them the same old same old....and decided to add jewelry into the mix with fiber art.
I started buying natural gemstone beads about 10 years ago-just would buy what struck my fancy at the moment. Every once in a while would pull them out and just admire, but never got around to making anything. But if you check in at my shop, you will find pieces of jewelry here and there...it has started. I'm in big trouble.
Now it's turned into a full-on obsession. The sitting and staring then packing away again is no more. I am spending more and more time absorbed in jewelry creation and more summer crochet pieces. Never realized that there are definite techniques, and how much wire-wrapping requires perfection of those techniques. Also have spent plenty of time in frustration of trial and error over the last two months with beads, cut wire and findings all over the construction counter.
I'm working on something special in the fiber art 'department', bringing back a favorite of customers, and hope to have photos with an offering in my etsy shop by the end of the week. I am so excited to be bringing this back! Those who are familiar with annie's wearable over the past 10 years will know what it is!! Surprise! It has a new twist, tho.
I started buying natural gemstone beads about 10 years ago-just would buy what struck my fancy at the moment. Every once in a while would pull them out and just admire, but never got around to making anything. But if you check in at my shop, you will find pieces of jewelry here and there...it has started. I'm in big trouble.
Now it's turned into a full-on obsession. The sitting and staring then packing away again is no more. I am spending more and more time absorbed in jewelry creation and more summer crochet pieces. Never realized that there are definite techniques, and how much wire-wrapping requires perfection of those techniques. Also have spent plenty of time in frustration of trial and error over the last two months with beads, cut wire and findings all over the construction counter.
I'm working on something special in the fiber art 'department', bringing back a favorite of customers, and hope to have photos with an offering in my etsy shop by the end of the week. I am so excited to be bringing this back! Those who are familiar with annie's wearable over the past 10 years will know what it is!! Surprise! It has a new twist, tho.
