Thursday 18 April 2013

P is for PEARLS and PENNIES - for 'From A to Z in April', Thursday, April 18th, 2013







P is for PEARLS and PENNIES - The Letter 'P' for 'Blogging from A to Z in April', Thursday, April 18th, 2013.

PEARLS are beautiful and a logical choice for jewellery. There are also many kinds of pearls: freshwater, saltwater or glass-based. Here are some examples found on Etsy. First, a necklace made of glass-based ivory pearls by Kim of Kimmsmith:

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 Next, a pair of pearl earrings to go with this necklace:


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Karen Stahlecker of WillOaksStudios has made a bib necklace with grey freshwater pearls:

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From Etsy shop, GowerJewellery, in Wales, we can see a pair of South Sea Baroque Saltwater pearl earrings.

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PENNIES are not what you would expect to find in jewellery. 


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But Barbara Bechtel of secondsurfstudio, makes buttons out of US one cent copper coins.  

 

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She domes each button by hand, oxidizes, buffs, and then seals them with a protective wax finish. 

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Barbara explains:
I started making these artisan handmade copper buttons as a solution for beautiful findings for my own hand made bracelets. Each are hand cut from pre 1982 copper pennies, which are 90% copper.

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US pennies made after 1982 are not copper, but 99.2% zinc with a copper plating, therefore they cannot be punched and domed in this unique fashion.


 

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My theme for A to Z is my favourite things that might show up in written stories, poems, paintings or jewellery. This is my list of subjects that I would like to work with.



 
Best wishes,
Anna











First Commenter:
Tanya Walton
of
Allotments4you





4 comments:

Tanya. said...

I like the grey pearls. I have seen some like this before but didn't realise it was pearls, I always presumed pearls were white.
The penny buttons are great. I love it when you come across unique items like this. If I had some I would certainly take them off and put onto a new garment when it was worn out!!

Sally said...

I love pearls and have several in my collection and of different colours as well.

WillOaks Studio said...

Thank you-Tina! I'm so happy you could use my pearls & I just love those penny-buttons!!
Karen-WillOaks Studio

Barbara said...

Thank you Tina! I'm so glad you like my penny buttons! Thanks for sharing them here on your blog!

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