A touch of old tree prunings and old houses

I never used to be a fan of wood. But in saying that, I guess what I was meaning was the old Lockwood style fake tongue-and-groove homes with too much glossy Rimu around the place.

Anyway, that was then and this is now.

Scandinavia. Oh I love you. IKEA. Oh I love you. Though both those places have nothing really to do with what I have created here, but it's where it all started.

Scandinavia and IKEA have something in common. Yes, IKEA is from over there, and yes, IKEA is renowned for it. Plain, natural wood.

I have just started creating wooden pieces of jewellery.

Firstly but not leastly, let me start off with these beauties:

Prunings from very old trees in Christchurch....

 

Each one is completely unique. Plum, Maple or Oak.

These have been taped off and painted in bright colours with a mix of gold paint...then sealed twice for protection.

Once finished, a large silver jump ring is added as well as a long silver plated chain.

The longest one in this set is off to Australia this week - it was snapped and sold while it was still drying.

The next selection of beads are also blonde natural wood - sustainably harvested again, of course.

Enormous geo beads are paired up with smaller round beads - together they look incredible with bright polymer clay beads and strung onto either black or bright yellow cord.

     

 

Block coloured buntings and other daily tricks

Yesterday afternoon, I came home with my bag of plain coloured card and other craft supplies, and make a few buntings for customers.

I also made another one as a test:

This necklace has plain colour textured paper on it instead of my usual busy patterns mixed in with neons.

So what do you think?

It reminds me of a gelato cone in the middle of summer. The grey pieces simply sharpen it all up (and trust me, it looks far better in the flesh).

You can also buy in from my Facebook page or from my FELT store.

I had such a spot in the sunshine and view of the backyard from my studio yesterday, I decided to keep pottering along and making the 5 bunting orders I received overnight. I even cooked up some new ideas for necklaces (in the design stage now).
All in all, a rather productive day!