Week Seven in Review: Custom Jewelry Available on Etsy, DeviantArt Updates and Lots of New Photographs
February 9th through 15th, 2014
Last week, in the land of blogging, I caught up on week-in-review and photo journal posts. I experimented with a Mardi Gras earring design and actually made the effort to take quality photos of the project, for once. I also had fun with some magnesite beads in a bracelet design.
I did other beadwork during the week but didn't photograph the process. I developed new earring and necklace designs made of materials that are available for future projects--ergo, they are designs that I can redo for custom orders in other bead thread colors or seed bead colors. Too often, I make jewelry pieces out of beads that have no duplicates available anywhere where I can buy them. That means that I can't replicate the design and create a second, similar pendant. This isn't a bad thing, and I'll continue to make one-of-kind pieces sometimes, but I'm also trying something different.
Meanwhile on the internet, there are now only four listings on Clockwork Bits and Bobbins, my Etsy shop. This includes the new listing for Half Past the Hour, a pair of steampunk earrings made of an actual washer and other materials. The thread pictured in the photos is green, but the earrings are available in other thread colors. The earrings are also available in pierced and clip-on form. Only one pair is already made; all additional pairs would be made-to-order.
I've been active on DeviantArt, too, with new photographs, new photo collages and new photos of new and old jewelry pieces. In fact, I've uploaded a few photos every week this month, but I've sadly neglected to mention them here on the blog. I will rectify this now:
First, here are the photographs. In "To Stand before St. John - 3", St. John's Cathedral in Lafayette, Louisiana rises high above the ground to meet a sky half in darkness and half in light.
"The Old Mill - 1" and "The Old Mill - 2" show an abandoned watermill next to a Texas Hill Country waterfall. Elsewhere in Texas, "The Felled Tree" can be found on the banks of the San Marcos River. Over in Louisiana, light catches on the Vermilion River in Muddy River Flows South - 2". Even further away, in St. Petersburg, Florida, "Journey to the Pyramid in the Early Hours" shows a pier that is strangely empty due to the early morning hour, while a tire and seawall graffiti linger after five years of exposure to the elements in "Five Years of Love Letters".
"The Dancer" is my first venture into abstract photography on DeviantArt.
The ordinary meets the majestic when mountains, waterfalls and cable car cables form the backdrop behind a field of power lines, fences and houses in "Valley Life - 2".
Visible in "Lady Acadia" and "Lady Acadia - 2", Evangeline smiles at visitors to St. Martinville, Louisiana.
Next, we have photo collages--photos stitched together in Photoshop to form intentionally-obvious-collages of panoramic scenes. "Yellow and Blue" is a three hundred and sixty degree view of the Gulf of Mexico and St. Pete Beach, Florida, the setting of my current novel project. I revisited the island last July and took hundreds of photos; the collage uses only eleven of them. Zoom in for the full effect. "Sortie de Secours," meanwhile, shows a roughly forty-five degree view of the roof of the Museé d'Orsay, the Seine and the Museé du Louvre.
Finally, there are also new photos on my DeviantArt account of beaded necklaces and earrings:
"Flying Machine," "Birds in the Machine" and "A Clockwork Day" are all beaded steampunk jewelry pieces. I'm especially proud of "A Clockwork Day." The earrings took hours to do, and many details are not visible in the photograph. I think they came out looking gorgeous and more elegant than industrial, which was my aim. The hands/game spinners can be mechanically spun in a circle.
"Little Garden" is one of my older pieces that I haven't yet sold. It's been difficult photographing this one in the past, but I think I found something that works in this triptych of images. "Jungle Underbrush" is a three-bobbin pendant I made a few months ago. "Emerald Drop" is another piece that turned out extremely well. It's hard to believe that it only took three hours, and I was there.
As far as writing goes, I returned to my manuscript and figured out, finally, how I wanted to block the epilogue. For too long, I'd had bits of dialogue and plot written, but I hadn't figured out how to string all the pieces together into a comprehensive scene. That's changed, finally.
This week, writing, beadwork and DeviantArt submissions continue, but that's a subject for the next week-in-review post.
Last week, in the land of blogging, I caught up on week-in-review and photo journal posts. I experimented with a Mardi Gras earring design and actually made the effort to take quality photos of the project, for once. I also had fun with some magnesite beads in a bracelet design.
I did other beadwork during the week but didn't photograph the process. I developed new earring and necklace designs made of materials that are available for future projects--ergo, they are designs that I can redo for custom orders in other bead thread colors or seed bead colors. Too often, I make jewelry pieces out of beads that have no duplicates available anywhere where I can buy them. That means that I can't replicate the design and create a second, similar pendant. This isn't a bad thing, and I'll continue to make one-of-kind pieces sometimes, but I'm also trying something different.
Meanwhile on the internet, there are now only four listings on Clockwork Bits and Bobbins, my Etsy shop. This includes the new listing for Half Past the Hour, a pair of steampunk earrings made of an actual washer and other materials. The thread pictured in the photos is green, but the earrings are available in other thread colors. The earrings are also available in pierced and clip-on form. Only one pair is already made; all additional pairs would be made-to-order.
I've been active on DeviantArt, too, with new photographs, new photo collages and new photos of new and old jewelry pieces. In fact, I've uploaded a few photos every week this month, but I've sadly neglected to mention them here on the blog. I will rectify this now:
First, here are the photographs. In "To Stand before St. John - 3", St. John's Cathedral in Lafayette, Louisiana rises high above the ground to meet a sky half in darkness and half in light.
"The Old Mill - 1" and "The Old Mill - 2" show an abandoned watermill next to a Texas Hill Country waterfall. Elsewhere in Texas, "The Felled Tree" can be found on the banks of the San Marcos River. Over in Louisiana, light catches on the Vermilion River in Muddy River Flows South - 2". Even further away, in St. Petersburg, Florida, "Journey to the Pyramid in the Early Hours" shows a pier that is strangely empty due to the early morning hour, while a tire and seawall graffiti linger after five years of exposure to the elements in "Five Years of Love Letters".
"The Dancer" is my first venture into abstract photography on DeviantArt.
The ordinary meets the majestic when mountains, waterfalls and cable car cables form the backdrop behind a field of power lines, fences and houses in "Valley Life - 2".
Visible in "Lady Acadia" and "Lady Acadia - 2", Evangeline smiles at visitors to St. Martinville, Louisiana.
Next, we have photo collages--photos stitched together in Photoshop to form intentionally-obvious-collages of panoramic scenes. "Yellow and Blue" is a three hundred and sixty degree view of the Gulf of Mexico and St. Pete Beach, Florida, the setting of my current novel project. I revisited the island last July and took hundreds of photos; the collage uses only eleven of them. Zoom in for the full effect. "Sortie de Secours," meanwhile, shows a roughly forty-five degree view of the roof of the Museé d'Orsay, the Seine and the Museé du Louvre.
Finally, there are also new photos on my DeviantArt account of beaded necklaces and earrings:
"Flying Machine," "Birds in the Machine" and "A Clockwork Day" are all beaded steampunk jewelry pieces. I'm especially proud of "A Clockwork Day." The earrings took hours to do, and many details are not visible in the photograph. I think they came out looking gorgeous and more elegant than industrial, which was my aim. The hands/game spinners can be mechanically spun in a circle.
"Little Garden" is one of my older pieces that I haven't yet sold. It's been difficult photographing this one in the past, but I think I found something that works in this triptych of images. "Jungle Underbrush" is a three-bobbin pendant I made a few months ago. "Emerald Drop" is another piece that turned out extremely well. It's hard to believe that it only took three hours, and I was there.
As far as writing goes, I returned to my manuscript and figured out, finally, how I wanted to block the epilogue. For too long, I'd had bits of dialogue and plot written, but I hadn't figured out how to string all the pieces together into a comprehensive scene. That's changed, finally.
This week, writing, beadwork and DeviantArt submissions continue, but that's a subject for the next week-in-review post.
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