Monday Moodboard: Natural Greens

Here's a selection from a treasury of mine that was made last week. I just love these green natural tones!

1. MadeByFire
2. JKphotography
3. steinschmuckdesign
4. artwatercolor

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Cute stuff on Monday Moodboard

So I'm totally into cuteness recently!
I opened a new shop - doKIDyourself and I'm childishly happy about all the cute stuff!

So I chose some other cute items for today's moodboard:

1. meilingerzita
2. BHBKidstyle
3. sabahnur
4. krize

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Purple Monday Moodboard

I love this way of sharing and loving each other's items :)

My choice for today is purple:

1. starflycreations
2. Intres
3. janinebasil
4. Brigite

Other this week's Monday Moodboards can be seen at Star of the east.

Friday is my day

I've been featured on Friday on a great blog - Friday is my day.

The idea is to pick one Etsy's seller each week and the featured person describes his or her day.

Thank you, Morrgan / Maria and have a happy birthday!!!

Monday Moodboard - The Lightness of Being

Yesterday I made a treasury that I like soooooo much.
So I decided to use some of the chosen items and feature them in today's moodboard.
Please check out the other selected items in my treasury - The Lightness of Being.

1. KUKLAstudio
2. andrea0503
3. enchantedpond
4. BuyMyCrap


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Monday Moodboard

My first ever :)

No color today :/
Just a Monday...

1. CraftUnikat
2. Davir
3. krize
4. AliBaliJewelry

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not so precious :)

After working with precious metals for a while, it is sometimes really liberating to work with less expensive materials. Especially now that the prices of silver have risen to the long forgotten levels...

Anyway, I ordered some bronze wire a while ago and started playing with it. It is a phosphor bronze wire –a cooper and tin alloy.

Just a few impressions for those that think about working with it:
- it’s harder than silver, which sometimes isn’t bad (the wire came in dead soft shape but the dead soft bronze is much less softer than the dead soft silver)
- that also makes it harder for soldering – the pin heads don’t come out as nice as with silver (am I doing something wrong? :D )
- there is an additional problem with soldering: I ordered some bronze solder but it’s not working, not reliable at all - silver solder is working perfectly but there is a problem of color then (it might be used for hidden or oxidized spots)
- when oxidized (with chemical that is intended to use on bronze), the liquid and the item appears like it’s rusty – the upper layer patina comes off easily and looks like black dust, but it looks great after the item is cleaned and polished :)))

So, I started to describe the feeling I get when I play (because I feel as I really can play) with less expensive materials. It’s not so burdening, like I don’t have such a respect for it as I do for silver. I started working with silver several years ago, I’d say around four, and I haven’t been using many non-precious materials since then. I would sometimes take some hobby wire, but those are usually plated, so it’s easily scratched and damaged, whether in the creation process or later. And I don’t like it.

This one is not plated or color coated, it has a nice color, it looks great when oxidized (I am an oxidizing freak) and it’s not so expensive as silver.

So I played with it yesterday and I’m really satisfied with the result. It's kind of chaotic, which is not really typical for my structured self ;)
Yay! Summer on the way :)