Art: Earrings

[coraa]

When I get stressed, apparently I make jewelry.

Behind the cut: five more pairs of earrings with fanciful names!



The Moon in Formalwear (Birthday present for jmpava's mother)

From Jewelry May 2009

Kore's Doorway (Mother's Day present for my mother)

From Jewelry May 2009

Dynamics of Snow and Ice (Named after some of ceph's coursework)

From Jewelry May 2009

The Serpent Hetaera (Named after an off-the-cuff comment in istgut's journal)

From Jewelry May 2009

Rain Drums (Part of my 'weather in seattle' earring series :D)

From Jewelry May 2009

Comments

[cwendy41.livejournal.com]

Um, so I looked at the first picture and decided that it was my favorite, except then I looked at the next few pictures and so now I can't decide. They all look pretty.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you!

[zalena.livejournal.com]

I like the last pair, 'Rain Drums' best.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

That's one of my favorites, too. I really like making earrings based on the vagaries of Seattle climate, and the rain pounding on the roofs and windows the past few days made it inevitable that that would be the next one. :) (Also, I have to credit the beads greatly -- I love the sometimes-pink-sometimes-blue of the dark spirals.)

[porfinn.livejournal.com]

That's neat! What a great way to use tension constructively (and they are pretty too!). I need to find my own way to turn stress into something cool. But right now I'm going to go read Judith Tarr, last week was Ellen Kushner. If I'm going to re-read fantasy at least it is good stuff.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

:D Yeah, that's my usual 'brain is going on the useless anxiety hamsterwheel' solution -- I do something with my hands, often cooking or baking bread, sometimes making jewelry, occasionally, on really bad days, total mindless work like chopping four pounds of herbs for freezing. It works wonders!

Although I also have been resorting to a Discworld reread

[cwendy41.livejournal.com]

Oh! That reminds me, I need to figure out how to harvest oregano and store them. They started growing like crazy and we're not eating them fast enough.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Well, what I do with fresh herbs is chop them fairly finely, pack them into an ice-cube tray, cover with water and freeze. (You wind up with about a tablespoon and a half of fresh herbs per cube, in a standard ice cube tray.) The herbs come out with their flavor totally intact when you defrost the ice cubes, although a little limp.

You can also dry them, but I've had trouble drying them without getting them dusty.

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

I love the Serpent pair! Nice beads!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The beads are faceted glass (top), malachite rounds (middle) and honeycomb ceramic (bottom). It's hard to capture how sparkly the top ones are -- they're almost like little pale-green disco balls. :D

[istgut.livejournal.com]

Very awesome :)

I like the names :)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Naming them is half the fun.

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Your earrings make me wish I wore jewelry.

Also, when did the trend of naming pieces of jewelry begin? I love it. I did a little bit of jewelry making when I was younger, but gave it up partly because I didn't feel like selecting sets of things (beads) to go together was very interesting. The whole naming-jewelry thing makes me aware that selecting sets of things and putting them all in a row is poetry, and it doesn't matter that one uses beads instead of words.

(by that logic, are three-bead earrings a haiku?)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I picked it up from the jewelry of elisem and from Wyrding Studios, but I don't know who pioneered the form. I really like it: it helps me build the piece in my head. It's not just, "What bead would look good with this spiral bead?" but "What bead would look good with this spiral bead and also reinforce the theme of 'overcast sky and rain pounding hard and rhythmical on the sky light?"

Right now I'm working on "Malfeasant Gardening" (which turned out to be a bracelet, not earrings), "The Coppersmith's Salamander," "Sudden Sunlight," and a series of pieces named after my various RPG characters over the years ("Brithwen Tattercoat," "Jennet," "Katie Leaps-the-Fire," "Tandal the Vintner," "Deerfoot," "Snarling Jack," "Ophelia," and "Anna Riddle-Tongue.")

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

It makes perfect sense that 'malfeasant gardening' would want to be a bracelet.

I can't wait to see more!