Hello all - Jenny here. Wanted to take a sec and introduce Cooky Schock. She is a fibers/mixed media artist from San Diego. Former owner of The Shepherdess Bead store - that's how I met her during my tenure there. She is joining the team here at AJE, and you will get a full introduction soon, promise. These "Lucet" things really intrigue me - stop by at Beadfest for demos and more info. Cooky will be next to me at #462 in Artisan's Alley! Here's what she had to say: While researching different thread-made chains to use with my micro macrame work, I cam across and article about the lucent. Coincidentally, at the same time I saw a PBS special about the Vikings. In one scene in the background some men were making ropes using antlers as the tool. More research, more discoveries. Now fast forward to Medieval times where many objects of everyday use were hung by the waist with cords. Cords were used for drawing up bags to keeping up undies, etc. You name it and cords were involved! All these cords were handmade, usually on a simple but very essential implement known as the LUCET. This simple tool has been through many eras but the basic shape has remained constant. The fork design is the most common, but a lucent made of more precious material such as ivory. .tortoise shell or mother of pearl usually did not have a handle. My first lucent was created using a pickle fork and sawing off the center tines! The lucet I now sell are made from a variety of recycled exotic hardwoods made by a woodworker from Crickhowell, a small rural village in southern Wales. Any weight fiber can be used with any lucet and beads can be added as well. The braid itself is square and very strong. Besides using the cord for chain, you can create I-cord much easier and faster than knitting or crocheting. It’s such an easy tool to use that even children have fun working with it. If you’re at BeadFest, please come by my booth #462 in Artisan Alley and try out this fun little tool know as the lucet.
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GLASS RASPBERRY NECKLACE featuring one of my handmade glass red raspberry beads, simply hung on ADJUSTABLE LENGTH CHAIN in your choice of a Sterling Silver or 14/20 Gold-Filled. The raspberry bead on this necklace is life-sized - a little more than 5/8 inches high (about 16-17mm). It can hang straight up and down or tilted to the side - your choice. You may wear the chain at any length you please by clipping the lobster clasp into the link of your choice. A little green glass leaf decorates the free end of the chain. Your jewelry will be carefully packed with biodegradable plant fiber inside a 100% recycled paper gift box with a stretch bow. This glass raspberry looks to be picked fresh from the garden. The simplicity of the design will make your friends wonder how you managed to hang a raspberry on a chain, and why it doesn't stain your blouse. Naturally, matching earrings are available. https://www.etsy.com/listing/500078494 Multiple Items: If you order several items from my Shop, they will be packed inside the same gift box to avoid waste. If you are ordering gifts for multiple persons and you do need separate gift boxes, please let me know in the Notes section of your order in the Shopping Cart. About Shipping: I shipping most orders in 1-3 business days. Free shipping in the US is via USPS First Class Parcel Service (now called Ground Advantage) which takes 2-5 business days. If you need your package sooner, an upgrade to Priority Mail or Express Mail can be purchased during Checkout. If you need more certainty, Message me to discuss options for UPS 2-day and Next Day Air. A signature will be required for orders valued over $500. If it's inconvenient to sign for packages at your home address, during checkout you can provide the address of another place where someone will be available to sign - perhaps at your work or the home of a trusted friend. The Nature of Mother Nature Almost nothing in nature is completely round, smooth or even, so I avoid making my glass fruit and leaves too perfectly. I put on little splotches and speckles, make them a tidbit lopsided, and add other small imperfection so that each berry or leaf is unique. This makes them look much more real. Process and Materials: I make each raspberry one at a time by using simple tools and melting colored glass rods in the flame of a torch. Every drupelet (cell) is individually applied over the surface of the fruit in a painstaking process and each has a slight vertical indentation. I achieve the variations in the red color by selectively heating and cooling the glass, so the color will never rub, flake or chip off. No two glass raspberries are exactly alike. Like real raspberries, my lampwork raspberries have a matte surface. When the raspberries are handled the natural oils from your skin enhance this soft sheen. Sustainability: The packaging for your order has been reduced as much as possible while still preventing glass breakage. Everything that's left is made from recycled, sustainable or repurposed materials. Brown packing tape can be recycled right along with the cardboard boxes and paper inserts or filler. The organic Kapok fiber padding inside your gift box will biodegrade, but not fast enough for curbside composting. Please put that in your regular trash. Even the red stretch ribbon on your gift box (which also goes in regular trash) was bought at a second-hand shop and repurposed! :) Photography: The necklace you receive will be similar to, but not exactly the same as, the necklace shown in the pictures. The color may look different on your computer or in person, since every monitor is different. All Matching Glass Fruit Jewelry (Raspberry Shop Section): http://www.etsy.com/shop/GlassBerries?section_id=15844493
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On select images, I'm offering them in two versions for one price! The first download is the original closer to what the illustration actually is, and second download, a more vibrant color enhanced version. Have fun with both! Gorgeous illustration scanned from first edition. Rackham was one of the best Golden Age children's illustrators there ever was. The illustration would be amazing framed, but can also be used in your scrap-booking, paper crafts, jewelry making, whatever strikes your fancy! Ready for you to print out! Total print size- 6.707" x 9" You are purchasing an incredibly sharp, clear, digital image scanned at a high resolution, 300dpi in jpg form. Once payment is received, you will be able to INSTANTLY DOWNLOAD YOUR IMAGE(S). Our images can fit on 8.5 x 11 paper. **THE ANNOYING WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON YOUR DOWNLOAD** What fabulous things can you create? Announcements, Invitations, and place cards, (think wedding, engagements, baby!) Paper Arts: Jewelry: Used on transfers: Print and Frame For: Greeting cards Earrings Tee-shirts Baby's Nursery Stationery Bracelets Tote bags Child's Room Bookmarks Necklaces Pillows Wall Decor Gift tags Napkins Scrap-booking Dish towels Altered Art Ribbons Card Making And any magical thing your artistic bent can create! The Fine Print (No pun intended) Do's Do make fantastico art with our digital delights! Don'ts Do not use our images in digital collage sheets, resell them, reproduce them in a compilation cd for resale, or share them with buddies. We and our little elves work tirelessly to ferret out special pieces of paper ephemera, which we then scan and restore to perfection for the discerning creative customer. Taking our work and reselling or redistributing is not only bad form, it angers our little pals. And you don't want to make an elf mad! So please refrain from practices that you would not want done to your artwork. Thank you!
I’m back again with some of my favourite tree themed creations as inspiration for September’s theme challenge. If you missed it, this month we’re running a challenge with everyone invited to join us in creating a piece of jewellery, an object, or whatever you fancy with the theme of trees. Forest Path Inspiration has been taken from trees for all kinds of art. One of my favourite periods and a big inspiration in a lot of my work, is the Art nouveau movement. This decorative style celebrates the natural world with an organic style with flowing curves, leaves and trees. Ernst Wahliss, tree-motif vase, ca. 1911 Art Nouveau style Gingko Leaf Chair by Claude Lalanne My favourite jewellery designer of this period, and probably of all time, is Rene Lalique. He was a leading figure in the art nouveau movement creating stunning jewellery and glass inspired by the beauty of the natural world. An Art Nouveau 'Trees' choker plaque, by René Lalique, circa 1898-99. Gold, enamel, opals and diamonds Landscape with trees on the bank of a lake Lalique 1900 Hair-Slide Plaque-de-Cou: carved horn, set w/opals in gold collets in the form of sycamore keys For some modern inspiration, I love the work of Tereza O… Tereza O on Fler.cz And Holly Gage’s work perfectly captures the beauty of tree limbs in silver. Holly Gage Pendant This challenge isn’t just about jewellery though. You might choose to create a painting. http://janschmuckal.com http://janschmuckal.com Take a photograph. Photograph by FizzStudio Firefly Forest Paint a pebble Painted Rocks Sculpt something in clay. Ceramic cup by Ah Leon MyMandarinDucky Create a paper cut WhisperingPaper Or create something a little bit way out…. Mark Jenkins’ Tape Sculptures Well… maybe not sellotape carousel horses, but I wanted to get these in here as I think they’re brilliant! I would love to come across these in a forest! Your inspiration could come from the beautiful colours or texture of bark or lichens. Tree Rings Silver Birch Bark Tree Bark Lichen Hollow Tree Blue Acorns Or creatures that make their homes in the trees. Squirrel Barn Owl Or you could be inspired by leaves. Whether summer or Autumn, you can’t go wrong with nature’s palette. Autumn Leaves Shinichiro If you’d like to join us for our Tree theme challenge, email me caroline @ blueberribeads . co . uk (remove spaces) or message me on Facebook with your blog address and email. The reveal and blog hop is on the 29th September... Hope to see you there!
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