On My Workbench: Wire Wrapped Peace Sign Necklace

  

A peek into my workshop...

Wire Wrapped Peace Sign Necklace 

When I put the photo below up on my facebook page

Friday night, I entitled it "The Friday Night Special!"

I was playing with some fine gauge sterling silver wire before you know it, the peace sign appeared! ...I had some beads in mind that I had been in the mood to work with - mainly the small rainbow moonstones on the right.  I decided to add just 2 or 3 of them to the pendant as accents. 

Problem was, once I had the moonstones attached they faded right into the peace sign design! This would not do... so I used a Liver of Sulfur mixture to patina the silver, transforming it into a dark gray. 

This is what it looked like after I removed it from the 
patina solution.

Next I took a polishing cloth with some old silver polish
 on it and just polished it up a bit, removing some of the gray
so that you could see spots of the shiny sterling silver.

Finally finished!

My favorite finish is to show great contrast between the dark black and the shiny silver. 
I love the way this turned out! 


What do you think?


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New Jewelry On Display at Floreant Projects Gallery Emmaus PA

For a limited time (until June 20, 2012) a unique selection of my broken china jewelry will be on display and for sale at Floreant Projects gallery in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Here are a few of the designs currently at Floreant.

Necklace made from antique Flow Blue china, sterling silver chain and wires, freshwater pearls

Art Deco poppy china with sterling silver chain and wires, freshwater pearls

Vintage black and white English transferware, sterling silver chain and wires, freshwater pearls

Antique lavender colored English transferware on sterling silver chain

Early 1800's lavender colored English transferware from the Themes river, sterling silver chain

 Early 1800's powder blue English transferware china shard from the Themes river, sterling silver chain

 Early 1800's powder blue English transferware china shard from the Themes river, sterling silver chain

The above pieces are available until June 20th 2012 at:

Floreant Projects Gallery
215 Main St., Emmaus PA 18049