New Items: Hairpins

I've been busy designing some new Spring items.  My unique designs in hairpins seem to be beloved by teenagers, but are perfectly lovely for anyone who enjoys hair accessories. One of the current trends is decorated bobby pins for ladies of all ages. I currently have the ones pictured below as well as some other beaded designs.

Immediately below you will see my brand new design for a lacewing bug. It's a very dimensional and graceful design. My dragonfly hairpins have been popular for a while as are the butterfly pictured at the end of the post.

Lacewing hairpin copper and jade $12.00

Lacewing hairpin copper and jade $12.00

Dragonfly hairpin copper and clear crackled glass beads $12.00

Dragonfly hairpin copper and candy jade $12.00

Dragonfly hairpin copper and jade $12.00

Butterfly hairpin copper $8.50

New Items: A little cloisonne for interest

I love the look of cloisonne with pearls.  Don't you?

Slender pearl necklace with mauve cloisonne and jade

Green pearl and cloisonne pendant necklace

pearl and black onyx slender bracelet

Cloisonne and gemstone triple strand necklace set with earrings

Cloisonne and gemstone triple strand necklace set with earrings

 

slender blue cloisonne and pearl bracelet

Icicle Enchantment

View out of our side window toward the Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island. My son, Caleb, is delighted with the icicles.

Icicle earrings

Sunrise Thanksgiving morning view from the front of our house. No, nothing was on fire :-) .

Snowball pendant - I also have matching earrings

Metalsmithing

I've started taking a metalsmithing class to further my education on techniques for my designs. I'm not sure how much of it will make it's way into my jewelry line as the equipment is mostly very expensive and some of it is a bit scary and requires having a workshop space that's not easy to burn down. However, it is very interesting.

Copper ring after my first class. The strip of gold paper was what I used to measure my finger and I was given a flat strip of copper to begin with and had to solder it with a torch.

My ring after my second class all filed, sanded and buffed.

Next week I begin a project using a coping saw to cut out sheets of metal into a design and then will be using an overlay solder technique to sandwich pieces together. I'm thinking of doing a gingko leaf design.

Autumn Inspiration

All these items and more are available on-line at suerunyondesigns.com or in my Etsy Shop.

Sue

Polished

It's fun to play with new toys.  I got this rock tumbler for my son for Christmas. We finally broke it out today and used it to polish a batch of gemstone and spiraled metal wire post earrings that I made.

This is the metal shot that you fill the tumbler with. It does the work of polishing. It has different shapes to get into all the nooks and crannies.

Look how they gleam!

Sue Runyon Designs is featured in Copper in the Arts!

I am happy to announce that I am one of the artists being featured in this month's on-line newsletter for Copper in the Arts.

Copper and amazonite spiral stud earrings

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cinnabar and amazonite bracelet

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Sue

New Items

Here are just a few new items in my shops:

 Dragonfly hairpin in sterling silver

Copper dipped carob leaf pendant from the Holy Land

Copper chainmaille rosette earrings

Red coral copper chainmaille bracelet

Thanks,

Sue

NEW item

Not everything in my shop is handmade.  Sometimes I just run across nice items from my suppliers that I know my customers would like. That is why you'll find magnetic converter clasps, chains for pendants, donut bails and prayer boxes on my websites. Now I'd like to show you my newest convenience item:  jewelry polishing cloths.

Since I sell a lot of pearl jewelry, I needed a special cloth that would allow me to polish up the ear wires, clasps, chains and other tarnished components without damaging the delicate pearls. These are not impregnated with abrasive jewelers' "rouge." They are a soft, lint-free cloth with a a bit of a texture. They'll easily take off light tarnish from silver and fingerprints from gemstones.

The great thing about these is that you can wash and re-use. I'm selling them in sets of two so you can have one in your jewelry box and one in your travel kit--or give one to a friend.

$6.50 for two polishing cloths

Find these on-line in my Etsy shop or at Sue Runyon Designs.

NEW items!

 copper butterfly hairpin

crackled glass hairpin

copper leaf hairpins