Geek Jewelry Turns Techno Fashion

Geek Jewelry Turns Techno Fashion<br /><br />Innovative jewelry designers constantly look for interesting materials from which they can make jewelry. During a personal hiatus from the craft, I took to soldering small circuit boards. I discovered then that electronic components could stand in for traditional gems, and small circuit boards could stand as featured elements in jewelry designs. It was a eureka moment!<br /><br />Capacitors, resistors, diodes, regulators, LEDs, transistors, and circuit boards constitute the collection of components that lend themselves to a high tech look in jewelry. It has been known around university electronics labs that students, especially the ladies, would depart from their hands on digital drudgery to design something creative to wear. Thus was born what was soon to be called geek jewelry.<br /><br />Populated circuit boards that failed in function could function as a pendant when attached to earwires or a neck chain with a bale. Such simplistic designs announced the designer as a geek getting away from graduate studies for a while. The pejorative term must have inspired more inspired designs.<br /><br />Those designers soon to be electrical engineers put some creativity into their designs by clustering or arraying the components in more intricate arrangements. This served to utilize the steely modern look of the electronic components without adding a geeky component to the lab born jewelry designs.<br /><br />It was when jewelry designers by trade noticed the high tech appeal of electronic components that they began to incorporate them into their jewelry couture. Recognizing the inherent appeal of such designs to current day conscious and technically oriented clientele, famous names such as Italian designer Paola Mirai, fashioned recycled electronic components as features in their creations. Techno fashion became the new nomenclature for high tech jewelry.<br /><br />In jewelry as in architecture, form follows function. Designers are shaking off old notions of gemstones for focus in jewelry and taking on technical forms to function as up to the minute attractors in current designs.<br /><br />Published by Lorraine Yapps Cohen<br /><br />I design jewelry free from the constraints of textbook techniques and write non fiction free from the rigors of technical expression. Chemist by training, creative by spirit, conservative in values, crazy a. View profile<br /><br />New Age Treasure Hunting with High Tech Metal DetectorsA lot has changed since the introduction of the first metal detectors; the newer models tell you whats down there before you dig. This hobby will at least pay for itself. Find out what the latest jewelry styles and trends will be. Graduation Gifts for High School or College StudentsYou can find great gift ideas for the high school or college graduate at a special website with hundreds of gifts.

Geek Jewelry Turns Techno Fashion

Geek Jewelry Turns Techno Fashion<br /><br />Innovative jewelry designers constantly look for interesting materials from which they can make jewelry. During a personal hiatus from the craft, I took to soldering small circuit boards. I discovered then that electronic components could stand in for traditional gems, and small circuit boards could stand as featured elements in jewelry designs. It was a eureka moment!<br /><br />Capacitors, resistors, diodes, regulators, LEDs, transistors, and circuit boards constitute the collection of components that lend themselves to a high tech look in jewelry. It has been known around university electronics labs that students, especially the ladies, would depart from their hands on digital drudgery to design something creative to wear. Thus was born what was soon to be called geek jewelry.<br /><br />Populated circuit boards that failed in function could function as a pendant when attached to earwires or a neck chain with a bale. Such simplistic designs announced the designer as a geek getting away from graduate studies for a while. The pejorative term must have inspired more inspired designs.<br /><br />Those designers soon to be electrical engineers put some creativity into their designs by clustering or arraying the components in more intricate arrangements. This served to utilize the steely modern look of the electronic components without adding a geeky component to the lab born jewelry designs.<br /><br />It was when jewelry designers by trade noticed the high tech appeal of electronic components that they began to incorporate them into their jewelry couture. Recognizing the inherent appeal of such designs to current day conscious and technically oriented clientele, famous names such as Italian designer Paola Mirai, fashioned recycled electronic components as features in their creations. Techno fashion became the new nomenclature for high tech jewelry.<br /><br />In jewelry as in architecture, form follows function. Designers are shaking off old notions of gemstones for focus in jewelry and taking on technical forms to function as up to the minute attractors in current designs.<br /><br />Published by Lorraine Yapps Cohen<br /><br />I design jewelry free from the constraints of textbook techniques and write non fiction free from the rigors of technical expression. Chemist by training, creative by spirit, conservative in values, crazy a. View profile<br /><br />New Age Treasure Hunting with High Tech Metal DetectorsA lot has changed since the introduction of the first metal detectors; the newer models tell you whats down there before you dig. This hobby will at least pay for itself. Find out what the latest jewelry styles and trends will be. Graduation Gifts for High School or College StudentsYou can find great gift ideas for the high school or college graduate at a special website with hundreds of gifts.

Fireworks Gallery

Fireworks Gallery<br /><br />Four of my pieces are being published in International Contemporary Artists V1! It should be out in May. The pieces that will be in the book are these. No Lyme Disease is going to stop me! Six of my other pieces of mine were published In Contemporary Sculptor last September. I became Martha Stewarts American made Audience Choice Artist but it happens only with a ton of work on my part!I have been a contemporary artist since 2003. I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease where I was told doing much of anything creative moving forward would be impossible from damage to my brain. Since then, I have sold 1500+ original pieces starting with my Wall Dancers I now am recycling found objects. My work now can be seen at 4 Art Inc Gallery where my work I have found a wonderful new home in the well known Zhou Bros. Art Center. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it is a national holiday. The celebration takes place on November 1 and 2. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls marigolds leaving them as gifts.<br /><br />I really enjoy creating some of my pieces in this theme. Besides recycling found objects I also do my polymer work on the pieces. I love the idea of the tribute to their loved ones. So I create pieces of love respect<br /><br />Should you like to purchase items with the Day Of The Dead theme on them you can find phone covers, laptop bags to pillows in my Zazzle store. The physical pieces are in my Etsy store. Prints cards are available on Fine Art Ameriica. Enjoy! Hug.<br /><br />20% Off IPhone IPad Cases! Use Code: SPRINGGADGET Ends Friday. You apply the the discount at checkout so dont freak at the price it will be lower when you apply the code!<br /><br />Ihave been a contemporary artist since 2003. I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease where I was told doing much of anything creative moving forward would be impossible from damage to my brain. Since then, I have sold 1500+ original pieces starting with my Wall Dancers I now am recycling found objects. We cannot be giving away our original artwork so we have to get creative!<br /><br />Six of my pieces are now published in the Contemporary Sculptor table book<br /><br />My work now can be seen at 4 Art Inc Gallery where my work I have found a wonderful new home in the famous Zhou Bros. Art Center.<br /><br />I just won Martha Stewarts American Made Audience Choice Artist an emerging artist On Art Jury it does not matter! Money is TIGHT!<br /><br />These are so much fun! Those who know me have seen my house needless to say it is WILD! From a 10 x foot clock/shelves we built to my house is FILLED with trades with my artist buds, Not a print in the house! I wanted some funky throw pillows so I decided to turn my KeRicTures into 20 x 20 throw pillows. Design on front AND back!I made phone covers with my work, laptop bags, courier bags, mousepads, Kindle IPad covers now ta da! Pillows!.

Fireworks Gallery

Fireworks Gallery<br /><br />Four of my pieces are being published in International Contemporary Artists V1! It should be out in May. The pieces that will be in the book are these. No Lyme Disease is going to stop me! Six of my other pieces of mine were published In Contemporary Sculptor last September. I became Martha Stewarts American made Audience Choice Artist but it happens only with a ton of work on my part!I have been a contemporary artist since 2003. I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease where I was told doing much of anything creative moving forward would be impossible from damage to my brain. Since then, I have sold 1500+ original pieces starting with my Wall Dancers I now am recycling found objects. My work now can be seen at 4 Art Inc Gallery where my work I have found a wonderful new home in the well known Zhou Bros. Art Center. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it is a national holiday. The celebration takes place on November 1 and 2. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls marigolds leaving them as gifts.<br /><br />I really enjoy creating some of my pieces in this theme. Besides recycling found objects I also do my polymer work on the pieces. I love the idea of the tribute to their loved ones. So I create pieces of love respect<br /><br />Should you like to purchase items with the Day Of The Dead theme on them you can find phone covers, laptop bags to pillows in my Zazzle store. The physical pieces are in my Etsy store. Prints cards are available on Fine Art Ameriica. Enjoy! Hug.<br /><br />20% Off IPhone IPad Cases! Use Code: SPRINGGADGET Ends Friday. You apply the the discount at checkout so dont freak at the price it will be lower when you apply the code!<br /><br />Ihave been a contemporary artist since 2003. I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease where I was told doing much of anything creative moving forward would be impossible from damage to my brain. Since then, I have sold 1500+ original pieces starting with my Wall Dancers I now am recycling found objects. We cannot be giving away our original artwork so we have to get creative!<br /><br />Six of my pieces are now published in the Contemporary Sculptor table book<br /><br />My work now can be seen at 4 Art Inc Gallery where my work I have found a wonderful new home in the famous Zhou Bros. Art Center.<br /><br />I just won Martha Stewarts American Made Audience Choice Artist an emerging artist On Art Jury it does not matter! Money is TIGHT!<br /><br />These are so much fun! Those who know me have seen my house needless to say it is WILD! From a 10 x foot clock/shelves we built to my house is FILLED with trades with my artist buds, Not a print in the house! I wanted some funky throw pillows so I decided to turn my KeRicTures into 20 x 20 throw pillows. Design on front AND back!I made phone covers with my work, laptop bags, courier bags, mousepads, Kindle IPad covers now ta da! Pillows!.

Fireworks Gallery

Fireworks Gallery<br /><br />Four of my pieces are being published in International Contemporary Artists V1! It should be out in May. The pieces that will be in the book are these. No Lyme Disease is going to stop me! Six of my other pieces of mine were published In Contemporary Sculptor last September. I became Martha Stewarts American made Audience Choice Artist but it happens only with a ton of work on my part!I have been a contemporary artist since 2003. I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease where I was told doing much of anything creative moving forward would be impossible from damage to my brain. Since then, I have sold 1500+ original pieces starting with my Wall Dancers I now am recycling found objects. My work now can be seen at 4 Art Inc Gallery where my work I have found a wonderful new home in the well known Zhou Bros. Art Center. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it is a national holiday. The celebration takes place on November 1 and 2. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls marigolds leaving them as gifts.<br /><br />I really enjoy creating some of my pieces in this theme. Besides recycling found objects I also do my polymer work on the pieces. I love the idea of the tribute to their loved ones. So I create pieces of love respect<br /><br />Should you like to purchase items with the Day Of The Dead theme on them you can find phone covers, laptop bags to pillows in my Zazzle store. The physical pieces are in my Etsy store. Prints cards are available on Fine Art Ameriica. Enjoy! Hug.<br /><br />20% Off IPhone IPad Cases! Use Code: SPRINGGADGET Ends Friday. You apply the the discount at checkout so dont freak at the price it will be lower when you apply the code!<br /><br />Ihave been a contemporary artist since 2003. I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease where I was told doing much of anything creative moving forward would be impossible from damage to my brain. Since then, I have sold 1500+ original pieces starting with my Wall Dancers I now am recycling found objects. We cannot be giving away our original artwork so we have to get creative!<br /><br />Six of my pieces are now published in the Contemporary Sculptor table book<br /><br />My work now can be seen at 4 Art Inc Gallery where my work I have found a wonderful new home in the famous Zhou Bros. Art Center.<br /><br />I just won Martha Stewarts American Made Audience Choice Artist an emerging artist On Art Jury it does not matter! Money is TIGHT!<br /><br />These are so much fun! Those who know me have seen my house needless to say it is WILD! From a 10 x foot clock/shelves we built to my house is FILLED with trades with my artist buds, Not a print in the house! I wanted some funky throw pillows so I decided to turn my KeRicTures into 20 x 20 throw pillows. Design on front AND back!I made phone covers with my work, laptop bags, courier bags, mousepads, Kindle IPad covers now ta da! Pillows!.

Exploring The Variety Of Clasps Used In Handcrafted Jewelry

Exploring The Variety Of Clasps Used In Handcrafted Jewelry<br /><br />Four Basic Classifications Of Jewelry ClaspsA clasp is used when the jewelry designer wants to join two ends together in order to secure the object in question. It is the component used to suspend the adornment to the wearer. There is an endless array of clasps that can be made or purchased but all clasps tend to fall into one of four main classifications. The four basic clasp designs fall under the categories of Knots, Hooks, Barrels or Spring Tension Clasps. Within these four categories you can find a seemingly endless assortment of styles and functions for your jewelry making projects. Lets take a look at each category and what you can expect to find for purchase or make yourself. Alexis uses a single knot to secure the ends and the simplicity adds to the primitive design. It is so functional because the necklace will easily slip over your head and fall into place.<br /><br />Knots And How To Tie ThemTying knots can be a bit tricky. I found this very useful website that has a list of fifty knots and how to tie them. This site is great because it has a step by step approach so that anyone can use the information and come out with exact duplications after the first try. The diagrams are animated which shows how to move the ends of the material to be knotted and this is a better learning tool than a one dimensional diagram. I think this link is a great resource for any jewelry maker though it was devised as a guide for The Boy Scouts.<br /><br />Knot History In Artifacts Located At The Pecos Museum<br /><br />I have to admit that the information and photos at this site make me crazy with curiosity. Examples of knots that were made so long ago it is a minor miracle that they survived. The artifacts found show how simple knots were utilized in everyday situations. I found it fascinating to say the least. Much of this information pertains to weaving but, some artistic techniques used in jewelry making, such as macrame, are certainly a spin off from weaving.<br /><br />Using Knots As Jewelry ClaspsIt is my belief that a knot was probably used as the first clasp by the ancient jewelry designer. I imagine that before the discovery of metal and, the use of it in this craft, someone figured out that two pieces of vine or hide could be secured with a knot. I would suspect that it happened accidentally or by observation of tangled roots or vines in a natural habitat.<br /><br />From there it was a matter of inquisitive interaction and need that created the knots we use today. Historical artifacts of knots are not so common, because of the characteristic properties of the material used for knotting. Most items would be biodegradable and not preserve because of moisture and therefore rotting. However there are some artifacts that date back as much as 10,000 years.<br /><br />Knots As Clasps<br /><br />Take to ends of a leather thong, twine, cord or whatever your material may be and knot them together and now you are able to suspend your jewelry from your neck, wrist or ankle. That is as simple as it gets. The trick comes in tying a variety of knots that are secure and purposeful. The first thing to consider is functionality. Then you might want to consider choosing a certain knot because of its visual appeal. However you decide to go with a knot, there are a big selection of knots and, some of them will create more than just the ability to suspend your adornment.<br /><br />Slip knots or slide knots can be used not only to secure the item but also as a means for adjusting the size. These can be used for all types of bracelets, necklaces and ankle bracelets and are a critical part of the design element because they show out, in the finished piece of jewelry. These can be used for cord, jute, hemp, leather, and other materials that are on the heavy gaged side. Alexis One of a kind Creations<br /><br />Hooks And Eyes Practical And Easy To UseI think this was probably the next form of clasp developed by the ancient jewelry designers. It is a simple idea and also very functional. In many ways this is probably the easiest kind of clasp to operate because of the design. The most common hook and eye clasp I can think of is the classic fish hook earring.<br /><br />The hook is attached through the eye, which is actually the pierced ear. Now this is about as primitive as it gets and, it works. This form of securing earrings is an invention that has been utilized for centuries. It works on earrings so adapting this clasp to other jewelry pieces seems to be only a matter of follow through in designing jewelry findings. A necklace can be secured with a handcrafted hook and eye. It has a T shaped hook on one end that is slipped through an enlarged ring or eye that is attached to the other end. When secured the toggle shows out and adds some attention to itself by way of its design. There are many variations of hooks and eyes used and you can also use this idea to design your own style.<br /><br />Security Performance Is A Concern<br /><br />The problem with hooks comes in the form of security. Though hooks and eyes will work they are not as secure as some of the more modern clasps. There is always the possibility that the hook could manage to jiggle its way free of the eye and the jewelry may fall off and be lost. Because of the fear of loss and the use of many precious metals and stones in making jewelry there had to be more secure ways to clasp the adornments. I know that many of my friends have spent a good bit of time in search of an earring to complete the pair they had on last night. Not only earrings but also bracelets and necklaces are easily lost without the wearer realizing they have come unfastened and slipped away unnoticed.<br /><br />Spring Tension ClaspsI think spring loaded clasps must have been designed so that the owners of the jewelry would not have to worry over knots coming untied or hooks jiggling loose. Many pieces of jewelry were deemed almost sacred and possession was held close to the heart. Because the jewelry had sentimental value or material value a better form of clasp was in demand. Spring tension clasps were being added to finer pieces and today many non precious pieces have a spring tension mechanism to secure the jewelry.<br /><br />There are many styles to choose from. One style is a flange of metal, that is squeezed shut, inserted into a box like, end and the tension from the bent flange snaps into place, to secure the two ends. These are Fish Hook, Fold Over and Box Tab Insert varieties that are all based on the tension, snap style.<br /><br />The other basic type of spring tension is actually a tiny enclosed spring with a lever, when pushed open between the fingers it will retract and hold when released to the closed position.<br /><br />The lobster claw clasp and the Spring ring are common examples of this type of spring tension clasp. The ring with spring is a little harder to operate because of its small size. They are made of all kinds of metal and can be purchased where ever you buy jewelry findings.<br /><br />Barrel ClaspsBarrel clasps are actually threaded nipples that screw together similar to a nut and bolt. They are designed in many sizes and styles and can be purchased in all kinds of metal. This type of clasp is secure but, is somewhat difficult to operate when the barrel is very small.<br /><br />Another clasp that has gained some popularity is the magnetic clasp, which speaks for itself. Magnets that attach to each other, affixed to the two ends of whatever you want to secure. These are available in a variety of materials, ready to employ in your handcrafted work.<br /><br />Knowing Your Clasp Choices<br /><br />All of the jewelry clasps explored here, each work in some instances better than others. It depends on what you are trying to achieve in your design. Knowing what is available is the most important objective. When it comes time to secure that union you will have an informed idea of what you have to choose from. Happy Jewelry Crafting!

Elsa Peretii

Elsa Peretii<br /><br />Elsa Peretii has been the jewelry designer at Tiffany since 1974. The elegant, simple creations of this Italian designer have dazzled the world ever since. Who can resist these delicate and charming creations in silver and gold?<br /><br />Elsa Peretiis Trademark Style<br /><br />One can often spot an Elsa Peretii design for Tiffany by its clean lines and quiet simplicity. How did she become such a master designer? Before becoming the head designer for Tiffany, she worked for such design houses as Oscar de La Renta and Halston.<br /><br />Every woman loves to receive a piece of Tiffany jewelry design by Elsa Peretii. However, many people cant afford these pieces. Thats why so many other designers, inspired by Tiffany designs, have created their own lines of replica pieces that capture the spirit of Tiffany.<br /><br />There are online jewelry shops that sell terrific Elsa Peretti replicas. The best sites are those with a big selection, competitive prices, and good customer service. You want a site you can return to again for future purchases. You never know when youll want to buy her a special gift to let her know you love her and giving a gift to someone you love doesnt mean you have to go into debt.