Go There Now This piece was so much fun to make! It began as a bottle of brightly colored vintage buttons. Not all of them were yellow, but enough to give me the idea of bright Miami art deco buildings. On the same trip that netted me the bottle, I also found the fabulous enamel…
A close-up of more flowers, stitched and rolled, with recycled jewelry centers.
I have an extensive collection of broken jewelry. I buy it and friends give it to me, so I am always looking for new ways to recycle old pieces into new wearable art. Making Vintage Bibs like this one is my latest idea for reusing some vintage treasures that I didn't feel should be broken…
A close-up of a ruffled bead embellishment.
A close-up of the CopprClay pendant and central bead cluster.
In making Gaea Emerging, I came up with a two-layered solution to the problem of stitched-on embellishments getting lost in the texture of wool roving when needle-felting is used as a background. In detail shot #2, you can see a small area of netting that I used to smooth down the first layer of roving. …
A close-up of the fringe, featuring crystals with an aurora borealis finish.
A close-up view of the "ice crystals". Montees are stitched on to provide even more sparkle.
Thanks to my sculptor daughter, I have been introduced to a new product made specifically for the entertainment and advertising industries, which simulates the look of jagged broken glass. If fractured enough, it can also be made to look like ice crystals. The best part is that it is moldable and soft enough to be…
