SPRING INSPIRATION

Playing with new paints and materials...

I love these natural untreated wood disks... They will make great handpainted rings and pendants :)

WOODEN TREASURES

I LOVE wood... the look, the feel, the touch, the smell, the textures... and its warm colors! I love working with wood, painting it for one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art, or incorporating it in mixed-media pieces. It marries beautifully with copper, polymer clay, fabric and many other materials. I have found these lovely new wooden treasures which I'm going to work with very soon! They are so lovely and I'm very excited about the endless possibilities they offer!

The buttons are beautifully distressed and have an aged look...

... and these little wooden domed cabochons are so lovely!

I already had larger wooden cabs, which are perfect by themselves for painted rings.

OCEAN SHARDS

I have found a wonderful votive/candle holder at a local thrift store. It features a glass mosaic in amazing shades of sky blue, turquoise, Caribbean blue and Calypso blue... and Aegean blue, of course :) One edge is broken, so I got it for a "symbolic" price... and I'm going to use the glass pieces for my mosaic project which I have had in my mind to try for a long looong time. Of course, I'd love to apply the mosaic technique to jewelry... which makes the task a real challenge, given the small surface I'm going to work on!

I think this coming autumn/winter season is going to be a time of experimentation for me! Besides mosaic (and I want to try polymer clay mosaic too: I can make my own tesserae!), I'd love to try some easy enamelling techniques, new projects with paints, wood and copper, and maybe even some felting!

Which new creative techniques are you going to experiment with this coming autumn and winter? :)