I can see clearly now - Brooch and earrings

Brooch (on the left) and pin earrings (on the right) - Clear glass jewels inset into copper for a crisp, no-clutter look. Both the brooch and the earrings have been patinaed for a vintage look.

The hook earrings are fashioned from silver wire, filled with silver solder with blue glass beads and silver baubles dangling from the top centre. A coat of black patina has also been applied for a vintage look.

The brooch displayed on a lace table cloth showing how clear the glass jewel is.

Out of difficulties grow miracles

Copper with clear glass jewel brooch and earrings

I chose this back-ground for the photograph "Out of difficulties grow miracles" because I had one heck of a time making this set! The clear glass jewels are set on top of copper and, as I was soldering the jewels to the copper, the flux kept on running under the glass, causing black spots. I tried over and over again until, eventually, I just gave up and soldered it, ignoring the black spots and hoped for the best. But once I had finished the pieces, added the black patina for an aged look and washed and cleaned them, there were no black spots to see! The few that remained just added to the charm of the earrings (top left in the picture).

For the brooch, I cut the copper to shape and size and crumpled it a bit with my flat-nose pliers for an interesting texture and soldered the brooch pin to the back.

These earrings have pins (with butterfly) but could also just as easily have been hook earrings 

Silver solder with clear glass jewels hook earrings  

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I go to nature...

... to be soothed and healed . and to have my senses put in order 

Hand-crafted from copper and silver solder . the copper assists in energy flowing more freely

Karee leaf and seed – Hand-crafted earrings made from Copper and silver solder with patina for a vintage look – from my EARTH range of ‘Afrika Street Jewellery’ – displayed on a large Rose Quartz crystal. The EARTH range of jewellery is inspired by nature and this one is fashioned after the leaves of the White Karee tree (Rhus viminalis).

Albert Einstein said, “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

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