These earrings have been quite a process! They began as sterling sheet which had holes drilled in it, that sheet was soldered to a copper sheet. Then it was put through the rolling mill, which distorted the holes into ovals....then the hole thing was reticulated...which filled in the holes and gave a lot of great texture. The piece was then cut into three - two smaller for earrings and one larger for a pendant (still a WIP). I soldered sterling tubing to the backs of the earrings and then put in 20 ga wire for earwires. :)

I was originally going to oxidize these, but I don't think they need them, I like the shine and the coloring from the texture, I'm wearing them now - I really like the way they turned out and they look MUCH better than in the photo!

This is a contemporary sort of 'abstract' pendant combining soldering and cold joins.

I used sterling sheet and sterling wire - the sheet was textured with chasing tools and then a bead was riveted with sterling tubing. I added tube rivets for later jumprings or some wire attachments for a beaded portion....

I have a tendency to churn out a lot of a certain technique when I am attempting to master it, soldering is no exception. I have been doing nothing but bezels lately, these with bails for the first time. Two of these I took apart and have now redone, I will take new pictures later, but here they are first pass through:








They are agate, picasso marble, and petrified palmwood. All handset in hand forged sterling silver settings with handmade bails and embellishments.I was very frustrated by the time I finished these, but learned a lot in the process and THAT is the goal!

Well, I am not on theme AND I am very late! I was out of town and there have been other issues, but not to bother! Here we go - my first 'finished' piece in a long time!!

All handforged, pendant is from 22 ga sheet, bezel from 28 ga sheet, tube rivets, amazonite, glass, pearls.....realized I had made some earrings quite some time ago that match so you can see one in the margin. :)