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The Philadelphia forecast is calling for our first snow of the season. We know that means it could be anything from drizzle or flurries to a downpour or blizzard. What we do know for sure is that there will be weather. Hassler’s umbrellas will at least keep your head dry.
M. & A. Hassler manufacturers of Umbrellas, Parasols. Joe Freedman Collection of Trade Cards.
JEM’s Art Party Challenge - May 2017
@jem-scribbles - All right! So, I’m going to try this whole posting-to-tumblr thing again. Woo!
As you can probably guess, this is the necklace and earring set that I made for this month’s Art Party. I was actually so inspired to make it, I finished it a day after seeing the prompts. Which leads me to...
The prompts I used:
The object - The shape of flames is what originally drew me to the pendant... My first thought was to use a sunburst pendant in orange (or yellow), but I could only find one in blue. That ended up being fortuitous, though, because that made me expand into the next prompt.
The phrase - “Whether the weather” is made me decide to go ahead and use the blue pendant. To make it fit, I went with the juxtaposition of bright yellow (sunshine) and cloudy blue (rain) for the main colors--and the pendant works, since it’s a combination of both. So, whether the weather is sunny or cloudy, this necklace matches it. (I tried to find a yellow raindrop-style bead to hang from the chain extender, to even further the meaning, but alas I could not!)
The color swatch - I added the orange as a nod to the orange in the color swatch. Besides, orange is complementary to blue (on the color wheel, that is), and just seemed like a natural addition. It helps soften the shift from blue to yellow.
If I made this set at the beginning of the month, why am I just now sharing it? That’s mostly because I had planned a second necklace, focused more on the campfire-feel of the object. Sadly, the pendant that I want to use for that hasn’t arrived yet--and I figured I’d go ahead and post this now, so I’m not any later. Hopefully if the pendant shows up anytime soon (and if I get time to make what I have planned), I’ll go ahead and share pictures of that one piece, too.
Thanks again for the chance to play along! I’ve really been enjoying these prompts!! :D
P.S. Oh, that’s right... I get bonuses! Go Getter (for using more than one prompt) and Crafter’s Bonus (my natural inclination to make matching earrings worked out for me!).
P.P.S. Like last month, I plan to blog about it on my other blog (found here), with a bit more of a technical jewelry-making write-up. I figured I’d spare you the details of what thickness waxed linen I used to knot it. ;)
Frozen egg on the ground in NY
Sunday
ideas running wild.
my matcha tastes off, but i'm still sipping on it. Will I get sick from it?
Museum National History New York
I want to explore more areas in New Jersey
Morning walk, New York, December 2024
Grandma's home.
Saigon, Vietnam January 2024
