In Persuit of Rust

Wandering through Bunnings Hardware searching for my current favourite - chemicals that will do "things" to metal.

There was a whole section devoted to removing, retarding and preventing rust.

Then I found this . . .Rust Paint????!!!!

LOOOOOOK!!

Leetle rusty relics and they are not even metal!

*sigh* I'm in love

 

Wonder how rust would look as nail polish? Yeah it's do-able.

The Destiny of Periodic Orbits

Destiny of Periodic Orbits

Cool name eh?
I looked up periodic orbits - all to do with chaos theory and gaaaaaaah what they said wasn't written in English!
Topological entropy, chaotic attractors,  bifurcation order, phase space partitions Faaaaaaaaaaaaaark!
Anyway I still like the name even if I don't understand any of it.
Distressed, aged and sealed nickel

Salvaged copper with torch-fired enamel

Sterling silver

Her Feet are Set in Darkness

 Her Feet are Set in Darkness

Salvaged metal

Czech picasso finish glass

Coral rounds

Aeons of the Fossil Sea

 

 

Market Treasures Again

Boulder opal still in the matrix. Some show flashes of colour.

Amethyst, rhyolite, quartz crystals, iron pyrite, amber and green quartz? and a chunk of some other green stuff.

Have no idea what I am going to do with them, but my muse just had to have them.

Bitter Sky

Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
That does not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As a friend remembered not. 
               William Shakespeare


The first creation using the salvaged metals.
Salvaged metal bangle, salvaged pierced and enameled copper, mismatched czech glass beads and silver wirewrapped pearls.

Very happy with these as they have the air of edginess I am aiming at.

I can See Clearly Now. . .

Did it all start when I bought some copper vases at the local market?
Apparently not.
When I first started making jewelry I seem to recall two people suggesting that salvage items might fit my aesthetic.
How is it possible that they could see, when I didn't really have a clue about my direction? Could this have been the first nudge by the Universe?

Well, after the vases, I was at the local Lifeline shop and found a lead free pewter tankard and though I might be able to use this.
Nudge.

 Then, someone gave me these two old tins. Don't you just love the top one. And I love the colour of the metal inside - pewter grey.
Nudge.

And finally, a gift of old costume jewelry and some souvenir spoons. 

Suddenly the scales fell from my eyes and I could see clearly the way the Universe had been shepherding me, from all that time ago until now. Putting barriers in my way to turn me and sweeping them away in other directions until I stand here. . .
Immediately all kinds of exciting opportunities to create opened and the Universe is holding the door.
Yes I can See Clearly Now