Sometimes people enter your life and make it brighter. That's just what Melanie Brooks of Earthenwood Studios did recently. Check out these amazing ceramic components ("Steam Stones") she sent me featuring gears, keyholes, nuts, and bolt--all my favorite icons! These pendants, links, and beads are not only gorgeous, but cleverly made with beaders in mind. For instance, the screw-top beads I'm using for a piece in an upcoming book (sorry--can't show you, but there's a peek at the left)are sculpted on both the front and back sides so as the beads flip around--as coin-shaped beads are apt to do--you get a good image either way. No ugly backsides.
Melanie is a very talented ceramicist, but also a very hip crafticist in general. There seems to be no surface that her Steampunkilicious sensibilities won't tackle. A quick visit to her blog will reveal punked phones, boots, scarves and the like. I wish she was my neighbor so we could exchange fabric paints and Dremel bits!
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2 comments:
oh you lucky girl!! thats some amazing goodies to play with!
NICE! That collection almost brought tears to my eyes. I love the shiny-ness in contrast with the metal loops. I can just imagine the interesting metal, glass, clay and odd found object to mix with these. I'm going to have to get a collection like that for myself!! Thanks for sharing! Lisa C.
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