Here is a peek into my jewelry making process!
Making little things can be quite tedious, so I have to really be in the mood to chill out, listen to a good audiobook or podcast, and relax and make as much as I can. The nice thing about little items is that I can let them air dry without worry about cracking, and they dry out in a couple days! Which is an amazingly fast turn around. Anything I've made on the wheel has been prone to cracking these summer days, so I have to wrap them in plastic and let them slowly dry for a week or more!
Once I have a batch of fun shapes in pairs, I imagine some decorations. I used silk screens of flowers and ferns to make these. Silkscreens are really fun to use with clay because they are tough and detailed. You just have to get them flat on the clay, then dab underglaze with a sponge over the image. Peel off the screen and a pretty design is left behind!
For these star shaped ones I used a tiny cookie cutter! It's about the size of a dime. It was very tedious, and I actually don't really like how they turned out. I feel like the organic free forms of rectangles and circles looks better.
I got the metal earring backing from Michaels and glued them on with Gorilla Glue gel. I like using extreme glue to make sure that it will be a long lasting hold. I would feel so bad if someone bought my earrings only for them to fall apart!
Here are the silkscreen earrings after firing once with the underglaze design, then again with a semi-transparent glaze in pale blue and pale green.
I also decided to get a professional light box for my photos, don't they look better? I'll write more about that soon.
You can find these earrings and more in my etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RoseAvenaPottery
Thanks for looking!
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