I felt like making some clasps today. One is shaped like a spiral heart, the next one is small and the last one is big with spiral, in the center of which there is a 6 mm natural aquamarine stone – the birthstone of people born in March. Here they are:
I made the big one for a very long chain with round links. I also have an idea for the small one. The heart – I’ll think about it later. 🙂
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Just made a new pair of these teardrop shaped copper earrings with dragonblood jasper stones. Here they are:
The previous ones were sold and I just managed to finish a new pair. These ended different from the other ones – one if a kind, they say, and it is exactly this way. Changed the wire wrapping of the stones. The patina became good, too. Gives the a nice boho, rustic feel. Made sterling silver earners and oxidized them n to match the look of the earrings. Just renewed the listing at Etsy.
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I made these copper earrings with turquoise gemstones as another experiment with my favorite hammered teardrop elements. I love how they make jewelry dangle, shimmer and shine with every movement. And a faint gentle sound can be heard which is just enchanting. So, apart from poetry, here are the earrings themselves:
How I crafted them
I used 16 gauge recycled wire (1.3 mm) from electrical engineering – it is pure copper. Cut it, then hammered the pieces to achieve the teardrop shapes. Then cleaned the wire with warm citric acid bath.
After a lot of sanding and polishing, I hung them on a ring shaped from 18 gauge (1 mm) wire. Thought of adding a stone. Tried this setting with 4 mm green aventurine stones.
I didn’t like it so much so I tried the beautiful 6 mm turquoise gemstones of which I had only one pair. This time I liked how it looks and finished the earrings in this way. Made sterling silver wires because they are hypoallergenic and more comfortable for people like me. Here are the finished earrings:
Turquoise is the December birthstone. It symbolizes emotional balance and clear communication. It is often associated with calmness, openness, and a grounded sense of well-being. And has gorgeous blue-green shades. I think it pairs very well with copper’s color.
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I made this chain bracelet from stainless steel and purple amethyst stones with irregular shapes. This jewelry piece would make a lovely gift for a person who has a birthday in the next month as February’s birthstone is exactly amethyst.
I used stainless steel 304 wire. 18 g (1 mm) for the double spirals and the heart clasp and 22 g (0.6 mm) for wrapping the amethyst stones. Hammered the spirals and the clasp very carefully to achieve this super flat look. And polished the bracelet quite a long time too. Until a mirror shine of the steel. I also made one extension link so that the bracelet is slightly adjustable. The stones are not flawless, they have minor scratches, but they’re intense violet, so very beautiful!
Amethyst is often linked to calmness, reflection, and emotional clarity, and people like it as much for its natural beauty as for its symbolism. I love the contrast of the gorgeous gemstones with the strong, durable steel.
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Drew these ink sketches recently. More and more often I draw without any idea. Total nonsense but it is what it is. I make my mind wander. I’m just having fun. Here they are:
A pattern of cartoony eyes connected by their chainy-looking tentaclesSome ornamental swirls inspired by earrings which I made for myselfA funny monster. It has a special ability – its eyes are able to look at each other. I wonder what kind of brain this feature requires. An eye with iris made of something in between crystals and plantsA lovely three-eyed devil with leaves behind the eyes. All the parts have a life on their own. Together they make a symbiotic creature.
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoyed these weird drawings a bit.
Another one of my weird eye artworks appeared. I had a drawn it recently in pencil and decided to redraw it digitally in Procreate. So I did. Recently I had checked the Pantone color of this year 2026 and color schemes with it. It was an off-white color with a very mysterious and poetic name – Cloud Dancer. I liked it and used one of the schemes that Pantone offered with it. Here is the finished artwork:
Art prints, T-Shirts and more stuff with this design are available at my Redbubble, Teepublic, Threadless websites. I may add printable art with it to this Etsy store of mine. And I may not. I’m still ambiguous about printables. But my artwork has been stolen a numerous time so maybe this would not make a difference. Plus, my trippy eye designs appeal to a very niche taste, so only a few people are into them. I guess that makes them unlikely targets for theft.
The initial pencil drawing of this all-seeing eye is relatively small – about 10 x 10 cm. I left it with its sketch-look because at that time I already knew that if I wanted to use it for something I would have to redraw it. Here it is:
Threadless has a T-Shirt color (one of the Comfort Colors series) which resembles very closely that of my original artwork which is cool. Here it is:
And one with a color that is a bit more wearable, heh:
I just made this copper bracelet with natural white opal stones by request of a client. I loved the idea because I hadn’t worked with opals up to now and I thought they would look very good next to copper.
The client asked me for a similar design to this cuff of mine but with white opal stones. I hadn’t worked with opal up to now. Read a bit about it. Due to my chemistry training, I already knew that these stones had a very interesting property – opalescence, named after the them. It presents as a beautiful and magical milky white translucency. I found that opals are porous stones with water in their structure and they are sensitive to heat and chemicals, so I had to manage them carefully. I also found that white opal symbolizes tranquility, clarity, emotional balance and intuition.
Armed and ready with this new knowledge, I got lovely 4 mm faceted stones and started weaving them with the copper:
wire woven copper cuff in making
I continued the process only to realize I had taken shorter wire strands than I needed for the particular size of the bracelet. Well then. Started over and remade the bracelet with veeery long strands. Now I had to think of how I would finish the piece. I aimed for simplicity in order for the cuff to look good on a male hand. Here is how the ends look:
the end of the weaving
Oxidized it just a tiny bit to achieve the color that copper naturally attains in environment. Now it was time to protect my creation. Didn’t want to use varnish because this jewelry piece has a bit of flexibility and I was afraid that the varnish could start to peel off with wearing. Also, fumes of the varnish could potentially harm these sensitive stones and I didn’t want to allow even the tiniest possibility of this happening. Instead of that, I protected it with three layers of Rennaisance wax so the beautiful patina of the copper could slowly and naturally develop with time.
I totally enjoyed crafting the bracelet and, what’s better, I really like how it turned out. 🙂
Thanks for looking. Until next time!
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This year I created snowflake necklaces for my youngest daughter’s Christmas school sale. Creating these shapes from wire was very pleasant. I even added some beads to them.
My goal was to use only supplies which I already had. So I used two types of 20 gauge non-tarnishing silver-toned copper wire and acrylic beads for the pendants. Also ball chains – I had two ready. Had black cotton waxed string and made the finishings of the ends as well as the clasp from 22 gauge stainless steel wire.
Then it was time to think of his to display them. Every necklace was different from the others. I wanted them to take very little place as well as be seen well enough.
I found an old cardboard box. Folded it and and connected with wire. Then glued green paper on it. Placed the pendants and … something was off. Wondered what to put in place of it so the wire and both center beads would look well on it as a background. Finally I thought of a brown faux leather sheet which I had recently bought in order to take photos of my handmade jewelry on it. Placed the snowflakes against it and they both turned out to be a great match for one another.
Glued it with craft glue and stuck some sewing pins on the back to stabilize the strings and chains of the necklaces. Here is how the tiny display looks:
Thanks for looking and happy holidays!
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Here’s a chunky braided copper cuff which I crafted last summer. It is naturally oxidized in warm chocolate-y copper tones. I crafted this bracelet using recycled copper wire.
How it started
My father-in-law works with electricity and he gave me a supply treasury of old cables. Here is the particular one which I used for crafting this cuff:
I stripped it of the coating and started playing with the 2.5 cm wire. Coiled 0.6 mm wire around one of the wires and then braided together all of them. I had wanted to try this type of braiding for some time. I got this:
The finishing was hard. I put it the wire structure around a small cylindrical glass to shape it. Then I made a clasp. Day after day I looked at the bracelet and the clasp was just nagging me. I didn’t like it at all. So I got my jeweler’s saw and just cut the end to which the clasp was connected. It was a relief – now I was okay with this tortured piece of jewelry. Filed a lot, polished a lot. Then left for many many days until natural patina appeared. (Franky, I actually forgot about the cuff for some time, but the former sentence sounds more professional.) Lastly I put some layers of Renaissance wax to simultaneously protect and allow the warm brown color to further develop with the aging of copper. Here is the result:
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Cute Strange Creatures 