Howling wolves earrings

This post will be quick one.
I have new earrings, and rather bad photos of them to show. The weather lately really isn't that good for photographing jewellery. Really, I used two light sources today, and I started taking pictures at noon! I will probably retake them in the near future.
Anyway, the earrings:

 

I've made the of raw copper sheet, that I've cut, filed, hammered and then oxidised to deep grey colour.

There is rather "strong" (sorry, I don't know if this is correct English word for it ) hammered texture. I like how it turned out.

The next step after oxidising was polishing, and then engraving.
I must say, I like the way the earrings look - the metal is rather shiny, and I like the results of engraving - especially the wolves. They look better in person then on the photos.

They are about 4cm long - 5,6cm if you count the ear wires - and weight just 1,8g each.
They are available here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/214955509/howling-wolf-engraved-copper-earrings

There will be also necklace to match them, but I haven't finish it yet. And I hope I will be able to take better pictures of them.

Oh, and I set up Twitter profile.

Till the next time!
Kasia

Christmas banner and rust dragon eye earrings

I've just added new earrings to my shop today.

 Of course, if you want a closer look, you can click on photos for their original size.

I call them rust dragon eye earrings because I wanted to make something a bit more industrial than what I usually do, and at the same time I wanted to do something with a dragon eye on it. So I combined both ideas and came up with earrings looking like rusted pieces of metal, with said eye incorporated in them as a rusted-over screw. At least that was the idea and I really like the outcome. They look exactly how I wanted them to look.

They are made of fimo polymer clay and painted with acrylic paints. I've made them entirely by hand, without using any moulds whatsoever. I must say, making them was a lot of fun! From making the texture, to painting them, it was all very enjoyable. There is also matching pendant,but it's not in store just yet, because I'm not sure whether to put up for sale as pendant alone, or to strung it on something. I will write another post for it alone, once I've decided what to do about it.

Anyway, the earrings are 3.5cm long (5cm if you include ear hooks) and weight only 0.8g each. The only ready-made parts I've used are the silver-plated ear hooks. I've made jump rings myself, out of bronze-plated copper wire.

If someone decide to buy them, they will be sent carefully packed in a box like this one.



And now for the banner part of this post...

Yesterday I've decided to give my shop a bit of holiday/winter look, and spend some time in inkscape making the banner over for that seasonal feel. I'm rather happy with how it looks!
 ....ta daaaah!

And this is how it looked before:

And of course I've changed the banner on the blog as well!

Till the next time!
Kasia