Photography and Gifts

I've been trying to be very good about keeping a photographic record of each item that I make before shipping it out. Last night I spent several hours photographing the holiday gifts that I have made as well as "Kinetic", the earrings that I was having such a hard time with earlier this Fall. I'm not going to share the holiday gifts until later this week - don't want to spoil the surprises if the recipients read my blog. But here's what Kinetic turned out like.



The top stones are pear-shaped peridot CZ's, set in copper. There are two small tube-set orange garnets at the top of the peridot. Then there is a shield-shaped piece of bronze clay that swings freely below the peridot which has a small, tube-set peridot piece at the "V"'s internal base. These were quite a challenge for me - a very hard thing to make. It was my first bearing bezel and then I added the bronz clay pieces, which I am finding hates solder. But I'm happy with the end result. I don't think it's at a level of expertise that I would consider putting up for sale, and I would have to charge WAY too much for the pair because of all the time it took to make them. So these are mine. It could be worse :-) Good Yule to everyone!