Eye Bead Necklace

Earthenware Handmade Beads Combined with

Bon Trade Beads...

A delicate statement!

Bon Trade Beads with Shard Pendant

A pottery shard from one of my favorite plates, tumbles

and upcycled into a pendant...

The other side of the necklace/pendant...

Show that you HAVE HEART...

Hand cut 3mm Opalescent glass hearts 

by Emily Cohen, Catfish Studio were

handpainted and accented with onyx leaves

and fancy copper bails...

Hand cut 3mm Opalescent glass hearts 

by Emily Cohen, Catfish Studio were

handpainted and accented with Labradorite

stones and hand coiled bails...Side one

Side Two of the same necklaces...

Have a Heart...

Hand cut HEARTS of STONE-ware & Glass...

A Statement Necklace & Earrings

Scroddled clay discs are accented with African Trades

and semi-precious red Tiger Eye Spheres

suspended from a woven natural neck cord.

Accent Earrings

January 12th Workshop

My first workshop of 2019 

"Making Ceramic Shards into Necklaces"

will happen on January 12th from 1 to 4 PM

at

GALLERY on PARK

104 Park Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081

This hands-on opportunity will familiarize you with many

ways to create Art to Wear necklaces with up-cycled

Pottery Shards...Each of these pottery shards 

is a piece of ceramic vision! 

They are an imagined bowl, cup or platter 

headed for the Holiday table or that special pitcher 

used to serve maple syrup on Sunday mornings.  

But somewhere en route to their continued existence,

 they met with an insurmountable hurdle. 

This in no way lessens their value 

as a symbol of a dream. 

Each tumbled smooth tactile clay shard 

embodies the process it took “to become” 

and to make one into a necklace to wear

 is to share in this inexplicable experience.

Please contact Martha Perkins at the Gallery

info@galleryonpark.com

to reserve your spot!

Calico Clay Components

I made a nice selection of Calico Clay Components 

and this ended up being my favorite;

this is side one finished with underglazes

and Designer Liner dots and lines

And this is side two partially patterned with a

rice paper transfer...

I decided to make a necklace using this fun piece

and even ended up using it 'upside down'.

I combined it with a found piece of wood...

...Seed beads, heavy copper chain, clay beads

and a melange of other found beads.

This will debut at Blue Santa Beads & Boutique,

Media, PA on November 1st at my Trunk Show.

See you there...?

September Share Necklaces

I am doing a September 8th Saturday Share at

Blue Santa Beads & Boutique where I will not only create

Clay to Wear with purchased components

 by attending shoppers

But will also have a nice showing of new completed work.

This reversible pendant necklace (above) is accented with

a found wood topper and Wasser glass hangies...

The two sides of this gas-fired Boomerang pendant is

also accented with a found wood topper and inlaid

flat round porcelain bead  hanging beneath.

These two Boomerang pendants were offered for sale

previously at Blue Santa Beads in Media, PA but they are

now Clay to Wear and ready to wear...

Wasser and Beach glass are the accents to these 

scroddled clay spirit hole discs which form this

 fun conversation piece of neck wear...

And last but not least, faux African trade rounds,

flat glass squares, seed beads and a hollow textured

clay focal tube bead make up this statement piece.

CLAY Meets Found Objects

Ever find a really cool stick when out for a walk;

 a stick that called to you and demanded that you take it

along for the rest of your walk.

A stick that wanted to go home with you...

Here are some of those sticks immortalized 

in Clay-to-Wear pieces.

 I have to admit that not all of them called to me; 

some called to friends of mine who were kind enough 

to share them with me after their discovery...

This Evergreen branch looks totally different 

with the other side of my pendant 

and yet it complements both!

The stick below came all the way from Martha's Vineyard,

stumpy and oh, so smoothed by the sea and the sand...

It seems to not only enjoy hanging with clay, it likes copper

and leather as well...

And beautifully tops off the reverse side of this Intaglio

impressed design!

This is another Martha's Vineyard find brought back to me

by Maxine Manges; it appears to be made for the

Intaglio design and coloration of this clay pendant...

And then, surprize!.. The other side is full of whimsy -

dots, lines, leaves in blues - all ready to carry essential

oils on it's open matte surface.

Here's a close-up...

CLAY...I LOVE where it takes me!

FELINE Fine Earrings & Necklaces

These tiny hand painted and glazed-one-side kitty cats 

which I made into 'Clay-to-Wear"

are the perfect way to support stray cats and dogs...

And you can do just that this Fall 

at the Tails of Hope Beach Bar-B-Q Blast

http://tailsofhopenj.com/bbq/

These are all reversible as well!

The other side is open to absorb your essence

or be used as aromatherapy oil carriers.