Jewelry post
Gotta get a jewelry post icon. I figure a pirate kitty is not quite close enough. Cute, though!
I keep meaning to post in-progress reports and photos of jewelry projects. I've been taking classes again for just over a year, and it's been great.
I just sent off a package with five-count-em-FIVE projects. Three of them date from this past year, and the other two were older projects that relate to the new projects.
Projects are:
1. An old project of swirly wires, sent off for molding and duplication in silver.
2. A larger version of that project #1, also sent for molding and duplication in silver.
3. An entirely different older project, sent for molding and pulling of wax models. This is a cool piece, but I want to do some small variations on it, so I'm getting the wax models to play with. I could remake it from scratch in metal every time (it's not complicated), but wax is easier. It is also cheaper, so I don't mind if I make a mistake.
4. A wax model of a ring, to be cast in silver. This one is for me.
5. A wax model of a ring, to be cast in gold. This one is for my sister.
My sister's ring is going to be pricey, what with gold north of $1100/ounce these days. My sis has big hands, and consequently can't find ladies' rings in her size. This is a feminine ring, with elaborate piercing you would never see on a man's ring, but at a scaled-up size that looks proportionate on C's hand. The piercing was a good thing, though--every shaving meant metal I don't have to pay for.
Anyway, I'm all wiggly now. These are one-of-a-kind items, and I've just entrusted them to UPS.
Also, have NO IDEA what my sister's ring will cost. It's impossible to tell. I suppose I could have gotten a graduated cylinder and pushed the model under (it's wax, it floats) to get a real volume measurement, then calculated that with the density of 14k gold and come up with a number.
But, you know, I'm not maradydd. I don't have graduated cylinders sitting around the house.