Luscious Limeberry

So delighted that my summers day passion flower was featured here.

Golden Red

Here are my golden swarovski crystal cufflinks. I love those cufflinks, and the way they sparkle.

Patinas - Midnight Flowers

The range of flowers is growing. I wanted to make some flowers with some colour in, and so the saga of trying to get a patina finish started. Well three weeks later I finally managed to get a result I was pleased with, and that is the central one - that I have kept, is not for sale and is staying with mummy!! Totally delighted with it. The colours of all of these is so vibrant and rich, the photos just can't them justice. Many glasses of wine, searching through books and online, checking in with forum buddies helped me get here, so I am very grateful to the metalclayheads team at Etsy.

Teal and Turquoise Team from Britannia

From the lovely team Brittania, again my little blue midnight daisy is featured. I just love all these colours.

Summer Lilies

I made these, was very pleased with them, but then felt they weren't finished, so added the trailers with 20 guage silver wire round the top and that was it, then I was pleased.

I have to say it took quite a few attempts to curve the silver without it cracking.

Silver Flower Collection

The idea of making flowers came during one lovely summer day sitting in the garden. I love the simple shapes. It seems to me that nature makes everything from either circles or squares. (I know some famous artist said there were only three shapes necessary - can't remember who it was). So this was the first series. I call these flowers at dusk. I didn't want them to be just bright silver so I treated them with a patina, but deliberately kept it just dark greyish.

I think my favourite is the wet water lilies in the centre.

More pea pods!!

Just a little addendum, have also just introduced pea pod charms for bracelets, or the tinyiest little pendants.






Cute eh!!

Silver Pea Pods

I saw somewhere a little pea pod made out of wire jewellery, and just loved the idea. They represent the members in a family and I thought them to be gorgeous. I thought about it afor a while and wondered if they would look nice in solid silver. So... one day I was playing around with my silver and was really pleased with the results. I put that one online at Etsy and it sold straight away. That was it, I was hooked and started making them for all size families. They go up to five at the moment, which is a chunky little beast. I decided that I would also make them available for one. I know it's a bit odd but some people are just totally complete by themselves. It was also an option to be able to add an extra one if you already have a pod of a couple. So here they are.

Change of Direction

I have decided that I'm going to move on from featuring other artists for the time being and feature my own things. I just don't seem to have time to search at the moment, but I have time to ramble so that's what I'm going to do.

Hope you like what you see and read!

Art - JLNilsson at Artfire

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When I came across Jenn's page I just grinned - how lovely to have that affect on people with your art!
"I am a small town girl who grew up with dreams and notions of colorful, fantastical places, much bigger and more adventuresome than the farmlands that surrounded my neighborhood...
... I still live in that same small town, and while it has grown into the busy little place that I call "home", my imagination still journeys to magical realms beyond our own! ...
Much of the artwork I create is created in watercolor paints, colored pencils, or a combination of both. ...My work has been collected and displayed worldwide and is licensed with several companies, with more soon to come.
To me, the MOST important part of it all is leaving the viewer with a sMiLe!"

You did that for me Jenn and I'm sure anyone else who sees your stuff.