Art and design by Boriana Giormova – funny, geeky, cute, creepy and weird drawings, handmade jewelry and crafts
These wire wrapped copper cuff bracelet and drop earrings just found a new home as a set! I’m so happy. I spent a whole week making them. Well, all the time which I could squeeze off my hectic days at least. And I really like how they turned out. You can see my weaving process …
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I had hammered these copper washers some time ago and had woven green jadeite stones into them with silver wire. These days I finally made them into earrings! Managed to get this absolutely unique patina on them: If you look closely, there are so many colors on their surface – yellows, oranges and even purplish …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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I made these earrings from wire, copper washers, natural garnet faceted stones and glass seed beads. Wanted to create something which includes movement and a play with light reflections. Used hammered copper and sterling silver wire to shape them. Each earring has five long copper teardrops attached to a small silver triangle wrapped with silver …
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If you love handmade jewelry and boho earrings these new designs might be exactly for you. They are not new, actually. I made them in the summer, then oxidized them a bit, then left copper’s natural patina to develop for quite some time. Copper has long been one of my favorite materials to work with …
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I’ve created so many jewelry items lately, that I lost count of them. Actually, I’ve started many more than I’ve finished. I want to make posts for them but somehow this has been one of the last things on my to-do list. And I still want to add them to my visual journal here. So …
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Cute Strange Creatures 