Sunday, July 21, 2013

My definitive decade?

According to Meg Jay,Phd, your twenties are a defining decade. Apparently you can even maximise brain development in this decade - of course you need to buy her book ( The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now),to find out how! I haven't read the book so can't comment on its veracity. I do know that I hit my twenties in the early Eighties and I also know that I am always drawn to music of that decade. Don't judge me - well perhaps you should because I am not particularly discerning! When it comes to music I am the proverbial pleb who says "I don't know much about music but I know what I like ... All this came to mind because I scored some great (to me!) vinyl  at the op shop...


 I plated several of them at full blast night and luckyily there are no accompanying images of my lounge room dance moves ... Does anyone remember Eddy Grant? Electric Avenue ringing any bells? Ah 1982 ...


And some home grown talent - well they formed in Melbourne so we claim them even the lead vocalist is a Kiwi ... I scored their 1986, self-titled album. Here is one of the tracks.


Ah the eighties ...



Sunday, July 14, 2013

Spooners ...

No, I don't mean cuddling couples! I am busy making charms and jewellery from vintage spoons etc. I am having a ball and layering up lots of fun elements. So far I seem to be producing slightly gothy- steampunky things - GothPunk? Well apart from pretty Alice that is ...

Skulls on a rose bed ....?


Lots of layering and a bit of bezel making practice too ...


"Forktopus" and his spoon company - more to come I'm afraid ...!

Saturday, July 13, 2013

bah ha ha ...

It's "forktopus"!


I crack myself up ....!!!

Friday, July 5, 2013

Busting out a bezel - oh yeah!

After some fairly intense resistance (and a whole lot of trepidation! ) I have finally done it! Yep, I made a bezel. Now it is far from perfect - in fact so far from perfect that I added some dings and dents to enhance the effect - but I am dead pleased with it! It houses a piece of beach pottery that was not completely flat and I was reluctant to try and even it up to create a flat cabochon so I think I was starting on the back foot ...
I read through heaps of my books and in the end kinda squished all the info together and just had a go!


I used brass from an old tray and I had to anneal the strip I cut before I could bend it to shape. Course I only remembered about the annealing deal after a number of frustrating attempts to make that strip bend the way I wanted it to!!

 
I have a question for you now though ... Because the pottery is uneven it sits in the bezel unevenly. Should I pour resin over it to even up the surface. I don't want to do one of those rolled over edges. I quite like the way it looks ...

 
Do you think it looks weird with the gappy bits? 


It is secure ...


...and I am thinking that the matte finish of the pottery is pretty nice ... I also have to decide what to hang it from. Believe it or not I was thinking about these lovely vintage pearls ....

 
but maybe leather would be better? Or silver chain ..... I hope the doubter voice takes a holiday tomorrow and I can maybe make some decisions! sigh