Africa Ring

 

This is a chunky Africa ring I made from sterling silver. I had it at the March I Heart Market. I was very popular and loads of people looked at it, one lady ordered one but in a smaller size. What I mainly found when people looked at it was they thought it was too expensive at R350.00 

Snowflake

All Things Paper

After seeing this, I am SO excited to get started. Have to go buy a little starter pack to see. I'm just imaginging doing all my prototypes for my filigree in this and they could probably turn into their own pieces.

Heart Pendant

Makezine

Inni Pärnänen

 All Things Paper

Inni Pärnänens flower rings which are made from burnt paper, candle wax, iron, and cotton thread.

Clare Knox Bentham

Clare Knox Bentham

Clare Knox Bentham is a designer who creates illustrative installations and jewellery in bright-colored plastic. They are all done free hand so no 2 items will ever be the same.

Quilling

Quilling

Quilling or paper filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. The paper is wound around a quill to create a basic coil shape. The paper is then glued at the tip and these shaped coils are arranged to form flowers, leaves, and various ornamental patterns similar to ironwork.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilling

Giovanna Gariboldi

 

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Giovanna Gariboldi

Necklace: Filigrana 2009

Paper

Although I cant find a lot of information on this piece at the moment, I'm definitely going to try and research a bit more into it. The paper work in this piece reminds me a lot of a hobby that I did when I was at school called Quilling. What you do is you take strips of paper and shape them and twirl them. I don't know why I never made this connection before but it is a lot like filigree just with a different material.

March I Heart Market

Liesbet Bussche

Liesbet Bussche is a Belgian designer. For her exhibition ‘Mirror Mirror’in France. Bussche has based the jewellery on Suzy Solidor french sosialite in the 40's.
I absolutely love this idea of beautifying the streets with giant pieces of jewellery that make people take a second look. If I saw this while working down the road I think I would have a smile on my face all day it would just make me that much happier inside.

Pink Cake

This is a cake a customer brought to the restaurant. i love the colours.