Earrings with safety pins, gold tone leaves and beads, and hand-carved wooden skulls.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Hex-Nut N' Crackled Bead Earings
Earings made with steel hex-nuts, pale green crackled beads, and wooden disks.
Twisted, Painty Fork
A fork, painted with swirls of white, blue, green, and yellow acrylic then whimsically twisted and finished off with a circle of hematite is strung upon a simple piece of heavy duty thread.
Alien Volcano Rock and some Sparkle
A super uber nifty chunk o' rock. CraAazy pinky purple hue with a unique volcanic looking texture, with a sparking little glass charm all strung up on a pair of heavy duty white threads.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Weathered Green Glass
A piece of weathered green glass wire wrapped and strung up with some small translucent glass beads and some circular wooden ones. Glass found by the Wissahickon creek.
A Rainbow of TWINE
Twine friendship bracelets.
oodles of colors.
NOTE:
All twine is hand dyed by me with either pen ink and hand sanitizer or acrylic paint and hand sanitizer. Pieces died with pen ink are subject to color bleeding if they get wet.
Mane of Denim
Cut denim scraps stitched onto thick twine and accented with brass charms and gold tone wire wrapping. Sort of a grunge goes tribal and gets thrown up upon by a charm bracelet sort of thing. In a good way.
$10(negotiable; but I spent hella time stitching all that securely)
Vibrant Orange Brick
An eroded piece of bright orange brick found about the Wissahickon creek, simply wrapped in some heavy duty thread.
Weathered Pottery on Blue Satin
A water weathered piece of cream pottery, wire wrapped and hung upon a bright blue satin ribbon.
A Pale Orange Mystery
$5
Pins n' Mica
Necklace composed of safety pins, twine, and a wire wrapped piece of layered mica found somewhere around campus.
$7
Quartz (probably) Ring, size 7 (approximately)
Silver tone wire wrapped ring.
The stone was found on the mountain near my house in New York, I believe it is a piece of quartz, Sort of flat in shape, off white in color.
$4
Mica upon silver stretchyness
Though the photos make it hard to tell (I will try to get up a clearer one), the stone here is a shining chunk of mica (the stuff that makes our soil so super sparkly) laden sedimentary rock, found at Wissahickon Park. It is on a piece of silver stretch cord (looks like a a silver snake chain) and has a gold tone wire wrap.
$5
Hey-yo all you craaAAAaazy kidz!
Ok,
so,
The purpose of this blog?
No, not just to distract you from all of the design work you have to do, all of the papers you have to write, and all of the sleep you should be getting;
it's for the sale and sharing of jewelry pieces created by myself.
I have been creating my own wearable art since the age of 11, at least.
Initially, just for funsies, but eventually I moved on to selling at craft fairs to raise money for traveling.
I haven't sold any of my pieces for quite some time but I am constantly receiving requests to once again begin doing so.
Most of my pieces are created from re-purposed and/or found objects; rocks, screws, forks, plastic dinosaurs, bow tie pasta, you name it, I can probably wire wrap it and I probably will. While all my pieces are quite quirky my style and inspiration is ever changing, varying from whimsical to earthy, simplicity to statement.
I always clean found components well and will list where they were found if I recall.
I ideally would just like to start by selling to my Philadelphia University community as not to have to worry about shipping and such.
Perhaps if this trial is successful I will move on to a larger market, but I'm keepin' it small and simple just for now.
If one of my pieces interests you, post a comment or shoot me an email at:
ktahladas@yahoo.com
and we can work something out ASAP.
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