Blue and White... Silver and Bright...
Fresh Water Pearl... To Adorn a Girl.
Been busy the last while creating new work for the Christmas shows...
Approx. 2" long including Sterling earwire, Large Fresh Water Pearl, Porcelain, Sterling and Copper ..................... see my web album for details of Desideratum Art Jewelry...
Approx. 2" long including Sterling earwire, Large Fresh Water Pearl, Porcelain, Sterling and Copper ..................... see my web album for details of Desideratum Art Jewelry...
Gorgeous as always. Do you wear your own work? You must have the best jewelry collection in Canada!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful1 I love those blue beads with the pearls...it reminds me French fabric. And the poem suits the delicateness of the earrings perfectly.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your sweet words on my blog. I can't tell you how you boosted my spirit. You really made my week!
Leanne
Really beautiful Gwen. Best of luck at the holiday shows. How do you purchase your jewelry?
ReplyDeleteI love these. How cute would these be with a cozy cable sweater and a pair of old faded jeans!
ReplyDeleteso elegant~ the blue hand painted part reminds me of a tea mug my sister gave me with some blue done like that on white... I used it every day, it was heavy, and when i broke it i cried. That's a weird way to know how much you love someone.
ReplyDeleteI never mentioned how once, i went looking on your blog, and thought how much More I could have accomplish these past few with your work ethic--that said, after the talk about the Puritans, and guilt; it didnt' make me feel guilty, but slow and too dreamy maybe... but its planted; time is so sneaky. :)
Beautiful weather today.
Sweet peace.
Sounds like a great combo, Anet!! You would make a great stylist...
ReplyDeletewhat am I saying.. You are one!!!
How pretty they are, Gwen.
ReplyDeleteI have to wait another month or more to see the earrings you made that Peter picked up for me at Beckwith & Co. Thursday, but am I ever looking forward to it! He told me they are "awesome." Me so happy. :)
Thanks Sharon, Yes, I wear a piece of my work every day.. but sadly I don't really have too many pieces... just a few I couldn't bear to let go...
ReplyDeleteSometimes people buy it right off of our bodies at shows...
Thanks so much, Leanne,
ReplyDeleteI find your work so enchanting.. and it tells many stories... Beautiful...
Gorgeous! I love them!
ReplyDeleteHi Shicat.. Thanks for the hopeful wish.. everyone is hoping the shows will be well attended...
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested in anything please contact me at mycastle@nb.sympatico.ca
mansuetude.. I have always had a love affair blue and white...
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear your favourite mug met its end... I sadly understand the feeling of how objects have deeper connections than they first appear.. When the one remaining bowl (it happened to be blue and white too) from my bowl collection.. the one that I miraculously managed to save from the fire unscathed... 6 mo.later, crashed to the floor.. I sat right down and cried too.. It felt like too much finality...
oh yes time is sneaky indeed.. and somehow does a disappearing act... the ultimate.. never to return or be seen again...
A day of rain... but I do need that so I stay directed, as I have been drifting lately... I'm starting to make some headway...
Oh Ruth that is so groovy.. I'm so excited... Please tell him Thank you for me.. that was so sweet!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Chris.. I love your colors...
ReplyDeleteI will, Gwen.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's true what you and Mansetude say about blue and white. We have a blue & white vase from Samos that we love.
yes, weird how an object becomes an emotional link manifest... i am not a big object person--not a collector of things (maybe invisibles..) but since you used the word "mediation" about our talks of fire, water, music (transporters of mind and feeling) I thought last night that maybe certain objects DO become like talismans of relationship to and from things and places (within us)...
ReplyDeletethe hand held thing I connected to my sister
your bowl... (maybe even the blue and white) (a sort of script for me) so much... if they break; we break... or release like a cloud burst--it is a transporter too!
Big thinking.
and a big berry to you... thanks. :)
Ruth and Mansuetude...
ReplyDeletean invisible link...
and I agree, like talismen... spiritual connections..
something sensual and touched creates this, I believe...
...a stand-in...
Thank you so much...
Lovely earings, and I love reading the exchange in your comments... how can objects represent feelings and memories.... thanks, Roxannne
ReplyDeleteThis just occurred to me:
ReplyDeleteDid you ever hear Stephen Hawkings say, why shouldn't we be able to remember the future?
Strangely, we bought our vase on Samos, and now I have a dear, dear friend who lives there, and I connect the vase with her whom I met only this year, twenty years after buying it from an artisan shop.
There is so much that connects all of us. If we sit quietly, we can see and hear it.
These are beautiful! I love your creations. I would love even more being able to walk around your studio and see them in person.
ReplyDeleteHope you are havin a great creative period.
Roxanne ... I is a wonderful treat to have exchanges with the world and to see how each other thinks and cares ... Thank you...
ReplyDeleteRuth, what a idea... I had never heard that quote by Stephen Hawkings before... it is sort of like deja vu but backwards...
ReplyDelete... an object found far in advance of the Now connection... that is very special...
Yes you are right .. and the sun and moon shines on all of us... that has a good feeling...
Sandy..
ReplyDeleteYou would be so welcome here.. but I have to admit.. it is a terrible mess at the moment..
always is when we are preparing for a show... you'll have to pardon the upside-downness..
Beautiful work.
ReplyDeleteWhen you say "shows" are you going to places where retail shops go shopping?
You never cease to amaze me with the things you make. I love it all!!
Thanks Don, You ask about "shows".. this time we are going to Christmas craft fairs that are open to the public...
ReplyDeleteWe'll see a lot of fellow crafts people that we only see once a year.. wish we weren't so busy when we were there as no ever has much time to mingle.. unless the shows are slow and no one wants that to happen...
For some one who finally got her ears pierced at the grand old age of 66 these are gorgeous, I do make some earrings for me, but after no earrings I now have a large number and love wearing them, sometimes I think much to the horror of my friends as I have to say I love long and sometimes way out!
ReplyDeleteGood for you, Penny...
ReplyDeleteI bet your friends secretly can't wait to see what you'll wear next...
Gwen, they are adorable! Love the pearls gently glowing and the blue of he beads. I wish you all success with the Christmas shows.
ReplyDeleteOooh, what lovely earrings - I am coveting them! I'm such a sucker for earrings!
ReplyDeleteActually, what I really wanted to comment on was the beauty of your photographs. They have such a wonderful feeling of serenity!
Thanks Arija.. I have been working very steady lately but I should not have procrastinated last month when it was quiet.. That will teach me.. I figure I'll be working right up till the last gun is fired!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Danielle, I am afraid I am the same way when it comes to earrings...
ReplyDeleteSo glad you can feel the serenity .. .. It is very calming living along this coastline...
Gwen, weird! I just came back to read the new comments here, and as I read I remembered that I dreamt I was wearing my new earrings last night. :) I was taking inventory of my outfit from shoes on up, and at the end, my fingers reached up to my ears, and even though I was wearing them, I could see them too (dreams are so cool). It was a very nice feeling, made me happy.
ReplyDeletethat's crazy Ruth.. It is probably better than thinking about the election... I would have loved to have seen you in your dream...
ReplyDeleteFunny thing.. dreams... our minds never stop do they... well at least while we are living...
... we are living dreams!
ReplyDeleteI think so....
ReplyDelete"The Girl With The Pearl Earring"
ReplyDeleteLoved that movie, and it's the first thing I thought of when I saw your beautiful earrings!
Lots of luck to you, for your Christmas fairs...
BTW Amazing commentary going on here...love it!
I like that, "living dreams." Now if only we could see each other in our dreams (only with permission of course).
ReplyDeleteOh Jo, I loved that book.. and its descriptions..
ReplyDeletea mother-in-law,in my other life.. long ago... was Dutch.. and it made me think of her..
Thanks so much for the good wishes.. Hope I'm able to complete all I need to do...
Ruth ... I always wished I could share the movies in my mind, too
ReplyDeleteHalloween candy...
ReplyDeletewhy does it exist..?
so dentist's hungry drills can have a taste of the children...
ReplyDeletevery funny
ReplyDeletebut Nope... that is not the magic password... maybe the answer will come in your dreams. :)
Gorgeous earrings, Gwen! I've always loved blue with white too....heavenly combo. I can imagine that sometimes people buy jewellery straight off your body...you are obviously the perfect model.
ReplyDeleteOH, and Penny's comment about loving long and way out earrings immediately brought my 73 year old mother to mind. Mum is always getting complimented on her earrings....she has four holes in EACH ear and wears a long and way out earring in each hole, all different to each other too. It certainly draws attention, particularly at her age. Did I mention that Mum also has a dainty little nose stud earring too? Not your average 73 year old.
Thank you Serena, no not a perfect model by any means but always wonder if they like to buy something that we wear because they fel we connect with it more.. and that's feels good...
ReplyDeleteYour mum is quite the individualist and shows she really enjoys expressing herself...... she must have interesting views on things too... good for her!!!