Love From Lily

Baby Mammoth: The Finished Necklace

I'm still plugging away at a growing pile of art silver pieces. It's been steamy hot here, so I've stayed away from firing up the kiln for a few days. Instead, I made a fun summery necklace from components that I had on hand. I had been saving the glass daisy pendant, not quite sure if I was ever going to use it, but decided this design was a fun fit for it.

Back In The Groove

It always seems to be a bit of a struggle to get moving again after time off, but today I managed to get back into the studio and resume work on a few different pieces.

I'm nearly finished with the Baby Mammoth piece. I'm just putting the finishing touch on the cab before I mount it. I need to do a bit of fine sanding to remove a bit of the sheen and seal it before I set it. This necklace is going to be gorgeous!

The Snake In Hand piece is proving to be a bit tricky. I've got a good start of it though. I've refined the hand a little bit, sanding off the lower ledges to fit on a flat piece of silver and started in on the snake—including setting the eyes! I'm finding that I need to stop at a certain point with the ACS to let it dry, otherwise stuff breaks or gets mushed the way I don't want it to—as is evidenced by that dent in the snake's tail that was perfect until I jabbed it funny. No biggie, it will get fixed in the next session.

Snake In Hand
work in progress

I also worked on some simple molded pendants from children's buttons. These two pieces, Lily pendant and Remedy pendant will need some fine tuning in the green stage. I think I'm going to use syringe clay to write RX on the front of the Remedy pendant, rather than trying to carve it.

Lily pendant
work in progress

Remedy pendant
work in progress

Happy Independence Day!

Have a safe and happy holiday!
Love, Lily

Item No. 3

Simple crystal necklace: Cupid Boy

Item No. 2

My studio looks like it was hit by a tornado with all these little projects in various states. I would like to get a few more pieces done before the holiday weekend. We shall see! Yesterday I finished this sweet little necklace. The eyes and mouth are painted over black and white transfer.

Why necklaces, you ask? Well it all comes down to this: I am a chronic bracelet and ring taker-offer! As soon as I sit down at my laptop, off comes my watch, rings and bracelets! They make me crazy clinking and scratching my computer. Also, I'm always getting my hands dirty. I'm always painting something it seems! So it's really been out of my own practicality that I've mostly focused on necklaces and earrings. Quite simply—they stay out of the way!

I'm trying to condition some Art Clay Silver that seemed a bit dry out of the package. I may have made a mess of it, but I'm hoping to get started on a new idea this afternoon. I've still got the Baby Mammoth design in the works and another little transfer necklace like the one above.

More soon!

Later that day... new ACS (art clay silver) piece on the workbench! Get a sneak peek here.