FINALLY!!! I am DONE!!!! *doing happy dance around her computer* Seriously, it took me like forever to finish it! And I must say that I am quite proud of the result!

It's all started from my Jewelry II teacher Doug telling me to make a special piece for Student Art Show... And knowing Tireen, who has an amazing ability to make her life more diffucult, she came up with this design. Here goes the list:

1. A set of wings, cut out of 18 gauge sterling silver, textured with piece of fabric.
2. A flower in the middle, 18 gauge, textured with a pin.
3. "Ouline" of a fairy with hands (yes, each finger is cut out also, but you can only see it from the back), 20 ga, textured with fabric donated by the fellow student.
4. 12 cutout flowers for the chain,18 ga, not textured.
5. 12 cutout leafs for the chain, 20 ga, not textured
6. Three flowers (two on the hands and one hanging), 20 ga, not textured.
7. One pink topaz, 8mm set in double bezel (I HATE those!!!!!!)
8. Three amethists, 5mm (!!!!! Pain in a b***), all set in double bezels!
9. Clasp, 16ga wire.
10. So many jump rings, saldered, not counted!

Everything is cut out by me, saldered by me, polished by me and even stones are set by me! By far that's the most complicated thing I did! The interesting thing is, piersing didn't take all that long to do, the only thing that was quite frustrating is switching the blade from one hole to another... I hate that!

I learned quite a few things while making this: setting faceted shones!!!! everything is possible and if anything goes wrong, I can always blame it on Doug!! (the last one is a joke... ~_^)

I like that feeling of acomplishment that I have right now. I finally can relax a little, at least until tomorrow, and just look at the neclace, not believing that I ACTUALLY made it... I don't know what about other people, but sometimes I look at the things I made, drew, painted, etc. and have a hart time realizing that I did it. But that just me...

One last thing. This piece will appear in STUDENT ART SHOW at PJC!!! So if anyone from Pensacola wants to see it in real life, you are welcome to come!!! Admission is free, Mon-Thu 8am to 9pm, and Fri 8am to 3:30pm. My sword [link] will also be in the show as well as some of my other pieces.

FULL VIEW APPREIATED

~Tireen

[EDIT] I finally got it back from the Student Art Show and I actually won an award of $100!!!! So I am updating the image because I am not happy with the one on the black background. Hope this one is better.