Ruby Red

Ruby Red

Made this with my daughter in mind since her B-Day is in July. 

Ruby is the Birth Stone for July.

The neck piece is composed of several big natural rough cut rubies and one pretty giant size rough cut natural ruby. 

The clear round beads are natural crystal quartz beads (clear and beautiful) 

Also on the neck wear are pink Swarovski Crystals. 

The length is about 15 inches. 

Matching ear wears are two sizable natural rough cut rubies wrapped with 20G sterling silver wire. 

Cute Little All-Sterling Silver Heart Studs

Hi Everyone! These little All Sterling Silver Hearts are for sale at my ETSY store - I have recently changed the name of my store to Earegular from Coinearrings because I have been doing more than coin earrings, heh. Here is a picture of the new groups of small sterling hearts, they average about 10-14 millimeters in length and about 5-7 in width, all sterling silver made from single pieces of 20G wire. Here they are all packaged up and ready to go out via USPS Priority Mail!!! Please check out my ETSY store for more, more, more!!

Mini Sterling Silver Sculptures For The Ear

TINY STERLING SCULPTURES

TO WEAR, OF COURSE

(ON YOUR EAR LOBES)

These Simple Silver designs are just sterling silver, nothing more or less..
Wire is in 20 gauge which is a standard gauge that fits the most normal of ear piercing size...
The wire is US made & purchased through EBAY from H. Schmidt & Sons of New Orleans.

I spend time hand-buffing these pieces on the old Sunshine Polish Cloth..
Hand buffing makes the silver glow & gleam like liquid quicksilver...
I have just recently ordered 6 more Sunshine Polish Cloths...how exciting is THAT!!!

STERLING SILVER STUDS - SPIRAL RECTANGULAR

PRETTY GIRL WEARING SPIRAL STERLING STUD

TWO SETS OF STERLING SPIRAL STUDS

PRETTY EAR MODEL

Sterling Silver Hoops Mania

HAND-HAMMERED 

STERLING SILVER HOOPS

I ordered a little "silversmith-ing hammer & anvil" not too long ago...

These are pictures of the hoops I have since made.

HAMMERED FROM THE "INSIDE OUT"

HAMMERED FROM THE "INSIDE OUT"

THESE ARE HAMMERED "FLAT"

HAMMERED "FLAT"

HAMMERED "FLAT"

HAMMERED "FLAT"

HAMMERED "FLAT"

SMALLER HOOPS HAMMERED FLAT
LARGER HOOPS HAMMERED FROM THE "INSIDE OUT"

Hammered Sterling Silver Crosses: Ancient Cave Wall Art

HAMMERED STERLING CROSSES

Like Ancient Cro-Magnon Cave Wall Art Ain't It

A Few New Medieval Silver / Simple Sterling Silver Designs

SIMPLE STERLING SILVER 

HAND HAMMERED 20 GAUGE (STANDARD GAUGE)

"SPIRAL TRIANGLES"

Hammered these recently as I now have a Bench Block and a Chasing Hammer!! 

What fun it's been to hammer and buff a recently acquired ounce of Sterling Silver in 20 gauge ...

I have not made my way through the whole ounce yet, it's about 19 feet of wire ...

These Hammered Spiral Triangles required about 9.5 inches for each dangle and ...

About 2.75 inches for each custom ear wire.

These are listed for sale at my ETSY shoppe!! 

Buy em before someone else does!!!

MEDIEVAL SILVER

LONG CROSS PENNIES 1247-1279

These genuine medieval silver penny halves were purchased through a dealer in Nottingham, England...

I got a good deal on these, as they were probably dug out of the ground at some point..

These may have been metal detector finds - no "storied pedigree" came with em'!

Were tarnished & dirty so I have hand-buffed to bring out shine...

Hung on custom bent & buffed Sterling Silver Ear Wire 22G (a little finer than 20G)...

Custom Packaged in cute gift box!

(These are NOT listed on my ETSY shop if your interested)

ARE THESE NEATO ENOUGH???
SERIOUSLY, MEDIEVAL SILVER - HOW COOL IS THAT!!!

IN A CUSTOM GIFT BOX OF COURSE!!!

HAMMERED STERLING IN 22G

This is the very first pair I hammered on my newly acquired bench block

Perfect Antique US Silver

ANTIQUE U.S. SILVER DIME 

DANGLES

Hand Formed Sterling Silver Ear Wires

Are these pretty or what?

ENGLISH MEDIEVAL SILVER

LONG-CROSS HAMMERED PENNIES

(1247-1279 AD)

Unique . Genuine . Antique

Hand-Formed & Buffed Sterling Silver Ear Wires

ETSY

I am SOOO very excited to have a beautiful online store for my unique jewelry creations - currently only 11 pairs of my exclusive & beautiful Coinearrings are available for sale at my ETSY shoppe but many MANY more are on the way so stay tuned!

Antique U.S. Silver Dime Ear Dangles

Antique U.S. Silver Dime Coin Ear Wear

Barber Dimes & Seated Liberty Dimes

Barber Pair: 1899 & 1903

Seated Liberty Pair: 1877 & 1888

All Sterling Silver Wire

Rose Swarovski Crystal Accents

New Necklace Pictures

New Pictures of Neck Wear

1887 Morgan Silver Dollar

THE YEAR OF THE GREAT MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE

Mounted in a Sterling Silver Bezel

With Oval Pink Quartz Stone Beads & Contemporary Glass & Millefiori

Strung on Accu Flex 7 Strand Wire

With a Handcrafted Sterling Clasp

18 Inches long (Princess Length) 

 Lanyard

About 28 Inch Long "Opera" Length

"Cold Joined" Sterling Silver & Copper Links

Antique Glass Cane Wound Trade & Millefiori Beads

1945 Walking Liberty Half Dollar (The Year of the A-Bomb)

Nicklace

Cold-Joined Twisted Chain Links of Copper

Sterling Silver Cold-Joined Twisted Chain Links

Antique Chevron Trade, Stone & Pony Beads

Contemporary Stone & Millefiori Glass

Sterling Silver Cubes

Antique U.S. Liberty "V" Nickels (various dates)

Hand Crafted Copper Clasp

27 Inches Long (Opera Length)

Ear Wires

I brought my cousins a couple pairs of my custom crafted Coinearrings while I was in B.C. - gave them the ones with the little silver U.S. Half Dimes, Capped Bust and Seated Liberty... haven't heard from them yet as to what they thought of the super heavy duty ear wires (fine silver 18 gauge) but I am sure they initially found them uncomfortable or even impossible to put in - if they have even tried to put them in yet... I have worked with one of my best tester buddies E.H. in regards to the super heavy (and really pretty) ear wire and her feedback has been similar to other folks in that the initial discomfort is difficult to deal with but that they are not impossible to wear... E.H. has a couple pairs that she has been 'Beta Testing' now for several weeks. I have just today received 10 sets of really pretty 20 G sterling ear wires and will be using them moving into the future; not sure if I will replace all the 18G ear wires that I have on several earrings or if I will just leave them for future consideration... I have always thought that the 18 G fine silver ear wires were super pretty looking, but then again, the feedback from those who have tried them hasn't been great, I dunno, I don't have pierced ears - yet - so I have never tried them.

Volcano Man Necklace

VOLCANO MAN 

NECK WEAR

(Volcano Man: Keeper of fire, maker of spear tips, smelter of metal, a manly man, an ancient Cro-Magnon Cave Guy)

This piece slips on over the head - no clasp. Composed with snowflake obsidian, copper wire links (cold joined) and a nice antique Czech glass bead in red (representing the fire element) - the coin is an old, 'previously holed' (I didn't make the hole) & worn down silver Morgan dollar that looks like it's dated 1882 (the date is worn). I was carrying this buck on my keys ring, then decided it would be better re-purposed as a pendant. 

Might take this one to Eye Candy Gallery for display and sale.

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Easter Neckwear

EASTER NECK BEADS

About 19-19.5 inches long (including the hand fashioned copper clasp)

Strung on 7 strand Accu-Flex wire

Variety of vintage and contemporary Trade / Czech / Bohemian glass beads

The 3 focus beads are each a smallish vintage/antique glass Millefiori Venetian African Trade Bead

(I made these with a few children in mind)

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Ear Sweets Earrings

EAR SWEETS

Antique Venetian Glass Millefiori Beads 

18G Hand Crafted Fine Silver (.999) Ear Wires

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My beautiful daughter tried to try these on this morning and experienced difficulty with the larger gauge ear wires - she could not get them into her little ear holes and I suppose there is a strong possibility that most ladies might be a little uncomfortable with 18G (1.0 mm) ear wires, fine silver or not. I had a meeting and discussion with my friend & jeweler guru Rita Telaak ( Eye Candy Gallery ) and upon seeing some of my ear creations with the custom crafted 18G fine silver ear wire she did say that she thought 'most people' would be uncomfortable with that larger gauge ear wire. After some web research I find that the most common gauge for ear wire is 20G (.75 mm) or even 22G (.64 mm) wire (and I already knew that most of the commercial quality ear wires come in that gauge range) although it seems a one millimeter (18G) hole is what is most often shot through the ear to begin with - the hole probably just shrinks a little over time. Nonetheless, as an artist I cannot escape the gravity of my own preferences in that I really like the quality, strength and eye appeal of the 18G fine silver ear wire - and the fine silver won't tarnish as readily as the sterling silver. So what do you think? Of course any of the ear wears that you see in my blog can be re-fitted with standard 20G ear wires.

Big & Little Blue

"BIG BLUE"

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This piece is fashioned with a hand crafted fine silver clasp, 7 strand Accu-Flex beading wire (it's absolutely absurdly strong wire), various sized antique glass beads, a large U.S. copper penny dated 1838 (the year of the Trail of Tears) and a single U.S. Seated Liberty dime dated 1877 (the year Bell Telephone Company was incorporated with 778 phones).

"LITTLE BLUE"

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I am planning to give this piece to my daughter. 

I purchased the sterling silver heart toggle clasp from Embellish in Rocky River.

Hammered Hoops

HAMMERED HOOPS

Copper Wire & Sterling Silver Letter Cubes

I just hammered these hoops out the other night (the little silver letter cubes are free-floating) and was surprised that I was able to make a very closely matched set of hoops! The trick seems to be to hold the hoop shape together with your fingers while hammering them flat, so they maintain the basic size. After hammering the hoops I spent some time with the Polish Cloth (Sunshine Polishing Cloth, made in Japan) hand-rubbing up a decent shine & buffing out some of the roughness while also de-burring/buffing the ends - especially the ends that go into the ear hole :)

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Fancy Lanyard

FANCY LANYARD

Ditch the boring basic lanyard and instead hang your corporate I.D. in Fancy Style

This Fancy Lanyard necklace is 24-25 inches long and has no clasp, designed to slip over the head. 

Composed from a total of 16 individual hand-wound cold-joined chain links, most 18G solid copper wire but 4 wound of 20G sterling silver wire. 

The Beads: 

16 Antique Glass 'Cane Wound' North American/Hudson Bay Trade Beads - blue barrel shaped cane wound glass with red stripes.

28 Vintage Glass Millefiori (smallish)

Various small vintage glass North American Indian Trade beads, clear, blue, green, yellow striped, cream/peach.

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