featured: a bunch of RAW rings

Well, I fell off the blog wagon again and landed on my ass. Here are some stellar RAW rings to catch me up.

Frederick Cruz
RAW 6/52

Solidworks 3D rendering."Inspired by a mechanical aperture...like the one in a camera lens."

Reagan Hayhurst
RAW 5/52

"Why wear 4 rings when you can just wear one really big one! I have seen a few rings this week that span the entire hand. I love the idea, it is very unexpected and always gets a second look."

DDee Wilder
RAW 3/52

Index finger Goatse rings.

Sanna
RAW 1/52

copper and paint

Carole Zakkour
RAW 3/52

"Sterling and copper stacked saucers - HEAVY!! 47mm x 30mm"

Danielle Miller
RAW 1/52

Marquise Glider. 18k gold, oxidized sterling silver, tourmaline. "The stone setting freely glides back and forth."

6/52 circles and rectangles

Phew, I started late tonight and finished this just before midnight. Ring plus earrings, sterling silver and copper. I'm not completely satisfied with this so I'm going to add a second circle to each earring, but I'm too exhausted to do it tonight.

featured: christopher duquet

Three Stones in a Lake, 18k gold

Christopher Duquet created this digital 3d design for a custom ring with Zen principles in mind. In this Modern Jeweler article the artist said, "It’s as though it’s 6 a.m. with no wind or rain, nothing to disturb the surface of the lake. Then you dropped a pebble, waited a minute, and then dropped another. You’d have this pattern on the surface, so that’s what we based the shapes on. It’s sort of to give you the evolution of time.” The ring was designed with CAD and then milled and fabricated (I couldn't find a picture of the fabricated piece).

featured: philip sajet

Philip Sajet made this gorgeous ring from waterbuffalo horn and gold back in 2003. There's no information on his website, but you can see some lovely work there.

featured: maria apostolou

My Ring a Day Secret Santa gift has arrived! Maria Apostolou made this beautiful key ring from sterling silver and tourmaline, she sent it to me from Greece before Christmas and it took nearly two months to arrive, it was worth the wait. I love it and it fits perfectly! Thank you Maria!

ring display

I finally put up some (crooked) shelves for some of my RAD and RAW rings. After making 365 rings last year I find that I have maybe 50 left. I launched myself into RAW as soon as the new year started and I feel as though I haven't taken the time to adequately reflect and digest the accomplishment of 365 rings in 2010. So now they are on the wall and I am starting to think more about what Ring a Day meant to me, and what Ring a Week is becoming.

I am two rings behind in features and I apologize to my loyal readers, they will be up later today. Posting a new ring each day has been a little difficult - mainly because I'm tired of daily ring responsibilities! What? You suggest I schedule them? What a great idea, in fact blogger allows you to write posts in advance and publish later. Why haven't I? I DON'T KNOW! But I plan to get with it. Really. I promise.

my creative endeavors

This month the topic for the EtsyMetal blog carnival is "What other media do you work and play with? How often do you get to create? Does it relate to or inspire your metalworking?"

My graduate degree is in fibers and I still occasionally make quilts.

Art is Permanent Revolution, large wall hanging made from commercial fabrics.

Love Blues, small wall hanging made from both commercial and my hand dyed fabrics.

Queen size bed quilt made from my hand dyed cotton velveteen.

I also make pillows.

Tufted pillow with piping, made from my hand dyed fabrics.

Pillow with quilted top and prairie points, made from commercial fabrics.

And I make bags of all sorts.

(Yes, I know, Bettie's name is misspelled.)


I like to make books as gifts.


I am very heavily into mail art, Ray Johnson is sort of a personal hero of mine. I made the pieces below, and I have a huge collection of mail art by others.

Lastly, I make sculpture from paperclips, this one is unfinished:


This one is finished and is made of over 2000 paperclips:

I am very involved with metalwork right now, but I work on my other interests as time allows. I think that everything I make relates to my metalwork, I don't separate my creative endeavors as they all come from the same source (my head, eyes, and hands.)

Please visit my EtsyMetal friends to learn about their creative interests:

kate jones
kathryn cole
2Roses
Twigs and Heather
Erin Austin
Nodeform
Beth Cyr
stacey hansen
Nina Gibson
elizabeth scott
Evelyn Markasky
Amanda Conley
Jenny Baughman
Catherine Chandler