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3 NEW ITEMS ON OFFER ADDED on 25 July for 3 days only – one intricate ring with Amber and Tourmaline and matching roses: pendant and earrings.

Next change of items – 28 July

First Communion time

I was asked to make a little cross especially for this occassion which is a BIG celebration for the Catholics in Poland.

White Sterling Silver and Freshwater Pearls – something beautiful yet simple for a little girl’s big day 🙂

Spring rings

After finishing that challenging order I needed simplicity – hence my new asymmetric rings, colourful and very good for Spring 🙂

Dark Night with Kyanite:

Golden Parcel with Amber and Freshwater Pearls:

Rose Parcel with Rhodochrosite and Freshwater Pearls:

Light My Fire with Carnelian:

Little Parcel with Polish Banded Flint and Agate:

The Challenge

As you may have noticed I had beed neglecting my blog recently. To be honest – since the New Year’s started… This is the reason of my absence, the most challenging custom order since the beginning of my jewellery adventure:

It was a very specific and very challenging order: the customer had emailed me…. a youtube link to a song titled “Thousands Little Yellow Flowers” (rough translation from Polish) asking whether I could create something inspired by that song! As you can see almost every word of the title inspired me 🙂 There isn’t really “thousands” flowers but they are quite a few of them; they are little and they have the yellow colour. I wanted the piece to be organic and natural – like the real flowers, and also dramatic – like the music of that song is.

I’m really pleased I followed the initial design pretty closely 🙂  The flowers were made petal by petal, one by one with yellow Jasper smooth rounds (2mm) and Freshwater Pearls (1mm!!! and 2.5mm)  and then oxidised, polished and buffed to shine. The frame was formed separately, waeved and wrapped patiently and only when it was also oxidised I stitched the flowers onto the frame with a thin wire.  The droplets in the neckpiece were firstly chosen to be Tanzanite faceted pear briolettes but after I oxidised the piece it was decided to change them for more misterious looking smooth Labradorite teardrops. After all the components were secured, tightly stitched and weaved together I gave the necklace yet another polish and buff for the finishing touch and good shine.

There is a ring and a bangle matching the neckpiece but each piece can be worn on its own 🙂

I’m happy. I finished a big order.

The email I mentioned… it has a date of 13 October 2008… pretty long creative process 😉

This one is mine

I bought the stone as a special treat for myself long time ago in Warsaw, in an old workshop of a lapidary artist . It’s a dark Smoke Quartz cabochon, hand cut in an unusual pattern. Until the last Friday I didn’t really know what to do with it . I only knew I wanted a ring but that was it. That day I just sat at the work table and started wrapping – my hands knew perfectly what do do. I made it asymmetrical because I like asymmetrical 🙂 The ring tells a story (like all my pieces) of Winter slowly making place for Spring. The wintry side has one dark  micro-faceted Tourmaline and the Spring side got a Vesuvianite. Both sesons have the smallest Freshwater pearls i’ve ever seen (1mm!) – they make snow flakes for Winter and Snowdrops for Spring. Heavily oxidised and hand polished for more dramatic effect. I’m keeping it 😀

beginning of work, in white silver:

after oxidising, showing stone nest:

Winter side:

Spring side:

on my hand 🙂