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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| Kimmsmith |
Next, a pair of pearl earrings to go with this necklace:
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| Kimmsmith |
Karen Stahlecker of WillOaksStudios has made a bib necklace with grey freshwater pearls:
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| WillOaksStudios |
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| Karen Stahlecker of WillOaksStudio |
From Etsy shop, GowerJewellery, in Wales, we can see a pair of South Sea Baroque Saltwater pearl earrings.
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| GowerJewellery |
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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secondsurfstudio |
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
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