Showing posts with label Something Sublime. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Hidden Treasures

I've always been mesmerized with assemblage jewelry.  Using vintage/found treasures peaks my interest.  Who owned it, what did they use it for, etc?

Although I've never really created anything I'd consider as assemblage, I have a few odds and ends laying around:  vintage costume jewelry from my mom,  a few skeleton keys, frozen Charlottes, old foreign coins, beads, buckles, buttons (since I ordered a few for Cindy Wimmer's Button Swap, and A LOT of old tiaras from my girls' pageant days...maybe enough to make a few pieces?  I just might give it a whirl.

From the examples below, what's not to love?















And no assemblage post would be complete without a few from the queen of assembled jewelry...Deryn Mentock!  Her work mystifies me...no matter how many times I drool over it!






So, while I stink at assembly line production work, maybe I'll take to assemblage a with a little more tenacity!