I have a lot of catching up to do! Let’s start by finishing up posting the last of the glass work I created in October:

In the midst of taking photos of my friend Alanya’s beautiful wire wrap jewelry, she kindly agreed to model some of my pieces for me as well.

“Wine-Dark Sea” ended up as a necklace with garnet and bali silver beads:

She’s so pretty, she makes my stuff look even better!

It’s so hard to schedule modeling handmade jewelry, especially when taking into account limited daylight this time of year, and such a treat when it happens.

“Bug-Eyed Monster” became a simple pendant, already sold:

Other side:

Bead close-up, for reference:

This one, “All windows look out to the same sky”, is long since purchased:

And one more wacky fun piece, with all this hammered silver and shark teeth and such. I think I’m calling it “Continually Overlooking”:

Sadly, no one was here to model it for me.

Here, a better texture shot:

The other tooth:

(Glass, sterling silver, hand-dyed silk ribbon) (September 2010) (sold)

For Amal El-Mohtar, who sent me a lick of leatherwood honey in a small glass vial from over the sea.

Leatherwood honey is dark and sour, almost poisonous. It tastes like the moment a walk in the woods becomes a quest gone wrong. The green bits on this bead make me think of the droplets of poison that sourness tastes of on my palate.

I don’t really know how to do wire wrapping, so I just sort of threw together this deliberately mangled chain to show off the bead, and I rather like how it turned out.