Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry
The Cincinnati Art Museum is exhibiting the pieces from this collection of Art Nouveau jewelry. I hope to make it to the show before it closes on January 17th.
Here are a few that I like best.
Charles Desroisers Orchid Brooch, 1898-1901
Phillipe Wolfers "Dragonfly" pendant-brooch, 1904
Lucien Gaillard Necklace with bleeding hearts
I need to get a scanner so I can scan all my other favorites!
I'm also getting inspirations for more felting projects. The two books I'm looking at right now are:
Feltique: Techniques and Projects for Wet Felting, Needle Felting, Fulling, and Working with Commercial Felt
The ruffle necklace on the cover is quite cute. There are also felted fortune cookies which would make nice party favors or an alternative to a birthday card.
Felt jewelry : 25 pieces to make using a variety of simple felting techniques
There are many nice jewelry ideas in the book. The necklaces are quite bold and chunky which definitely makes a statement when you wear them.
The other publications that are in heavy reading rotation are seed catalogs! My husband and I are starting to order seeds for the upcoming season. A couple of our favorite places for seeds are: The Seed Savers Exchange and J.L. Hudson. I'm searching for the prettiest sunflowers and herbs that we aren't already growing. We want to make more teas and herbal creations from our garden. I also want to have more flowers for arraignments and drying for crafts this year, including globe amaranth, cone flowers,and cosmos. We grew an deep orange variety of Cosmos last year named Diablo Cosmos and they were beautiful. I saved a lot of the seeds and we are going to get more colors!
The veggie list is also in the works, which is for another post.
xoxo,
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