Sunday, October 25, 2009
Glass & Metal Charm Swap
I cut out the charm from 24 gauge copper and used Vitreous Enamel (Powdered glass) to add the design. I made the Byzantine design chain bracelet from 18 gauge aluminium jump rings.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Adventures in New Mediums
The Lily pendant is a piece I carved in wax and had it cast in Nu-gold (Yellow Bronze). The next step is to refine the piece and have a mold made for multiple reproductions in gold or silver.
This is another new process for me. I took scrap gold and melted it down then rolled and forged it into this cuff. An Anniversary gift for my husband.
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Pagoda Dichro
Sterling silver with brass accents this piece measures 3 3/4" including the bail. Dichroic glass by Mary Clendeninn.
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Wilma Flinstone eat your heart out!
Rose quartz and rock crystal with Swarovski crystals as spacers. The rose quartz beads are 1 1/4" long and the rock crystal beads are 1 3/8" long. The Swarovski crystals are 4mm lavender bicones surrounded by 3mm AB crystal bicones. The necklace is 31" long with a sterling silver lobster claw clasp.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Pill box
I thought I might try making some other pieces besides jewelry. This is a brass pill box 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 1/2".
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
This years entry
My entry for the 2009 Student Art Show is a working carousel. There is a fan knob on the bottom of the box that you can turn and the carousel, the crown and the Mystic topaz on top of the box all turn. The door knocker type rings on the side of the box is where you attach the removable multi color tourmaline chain that I'm still making.
The entire piece was made from scratch. It is by far the most difficult and intricate piece I have ever endeavored to make. There is a miniature cameo in the middle of the carousel. The box is a 1 1/2" square.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Necklaces
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Rosina V. Malone 1909-2009
I LOVE YOU MOM AND WILL MISS YOU EVERY DAY UNTIL WE CAN BE TOGETHER AGAIN!
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
RLM inspired
High polished stainless steel with matte finish brass circles. Inspired by Robert Lee Morris' pieces. The high polish reflects the light and the double jump rings make the earrings dance and catch the light.
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
2009
Well it's here with the promise of things new.
Here in the USA it means a new president. YEAH!
It will be the 30th year that my husband and I have been together and God willing will be the 100th year that my Mother has been on this planet.
I also have plans to expand my jewelry business and to look for some galleries or maybe a museum to exhibit my Art Jewelry. I have some exciting pieces that I have been working on and some designs that I've sketched up that are receiving some interest. Fingers crossed!
I also hope to do some traveling. I have not left NYC since my leg was paralyzed. It seems it was not the only thing that got paralyzed. I closed up in many ways and fear crept into my life stopping me from doing things that were not affected by my condition. My leg became a good excuse and many would not question it. There is still things I can't do but I'm going to try to do the things I know I could do if I just tried.
I hope the new year brings all of you out there whatever it is you need to enjoy your life. Have a happy, healthy year and do something unexpected you might have fun!
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Xmas Ornament 2
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Xmas Orchid ornament

Hand forged copper Orchid with dichroic glass.
(3 1/2" x 3 1/2")
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Pele-Hawaiian Goddess of the Volcano
The dichroic glass in this piece resembles flowing lava. The piece is articulated to depict a dancing movement such as the Hula.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Break the Cycle
" Break the Cycle"
Sterling silver pendant with high polished background and satin finish on broken circle.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Hawaiian Memories
The orchid was cut and shaped from 24 gauge sterling sheet with a 4mm Citrine gemstone in the middle of the orchid and the large stone is dichroic glass. Piece is approximately 2 inches high.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Dichroic mania ***** Kauai Fused glass Collection




My sister in law Mary Clendeninn made the glass pieces I am using in these pieces. She will be selling them at her gallery, Garden Island Stained Glass in Kauai, Hawaii. You really can't appreciate the illusions in the glass from the photos but it's very colorful and multi dimensional.
More pieces to come!
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Hammer Time
Hammered brass discs, brass twisted wire, gold seed beads and a magnetic clasp.

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Friday, May 16, 2008
Give Peace A Chance
The Sterling chain has crystal stations.


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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Mini sterling charms
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A little bit of everything this time
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
New Earrings
Sterling and Jet crystal hoops.
Nickel silver on sterling ear wires.
Nickel silver articulated curves on sterling ear wires.
Sterling silver and pink fiber optic stones.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Out of MY Mind
This brooch is made from sterling, brass, fresh water pearls, a working wind up watch and glass. The presentation box is decorated wood, bamboo, plastic pearls and glass. The round piece in the head opens so that the watch can be wound and you can see the gears (her brain) moving. 


For some reason the round piece that protects the watch looks very over powering in these shots. It's a bit more subtle in person.
I made this piece to enter in a juried show. If accepted it will be exhibited in May and June here in NYC.
I would like to thank Lisa Spiros for all her help and guidance and Judy Neubert for the watch that went into her head. I'd also like to thank Amber Dawn for inspiring me to be creative.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
Back again so soon
Something new for me. I've been playing with initial jewelry and came up with these two pieces. The first necklace is sterling with Carnelian stones, the initial is in brass.
This second piece is done in nickel silver with a cobalt blue cats eye stone and brass initial. I thought I'd try something more masculine and decided on the dog tag style.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
HAPPY SPRING



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Monday, January 7, 2008
Happy 2008

Hope everyone had a great Holiday Season. Time to get back to work and show you some new stuff.
These are a pair of sterling and Swarovski crystal hoops . They were and Xmas present I made for Amber.
The red pendant is my submission for a Swap I'm involved in. The glass hearts are similar to Murano glass.
Until my studio is set up I've been trying my hand at some wire techniques so I'm working with a lot of glass and gemstone beads. It's fun but I can't wait to get my torch up and running again.
I got a new Paragon Kiln for Xmas so I will be working with some new materials in the new year. I'm planning on doing some PMC pieces, some enamiling and maybe try some glass fusing. Keep a look out for my new goodies it should be a FUN year of creating ahead.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
It's been a long time!
Haven't been here in a long time. Many things have been going on but the most disruptive of all of those things is I moved. I have finally gotten settled enough to start working on my jewelry again so I will be back on a more regular basis. I will be posting a few new pieces after Christmas because if I post them now the people who are getting them for Christmas won't be surprised. So Merry Christmas to all and please come back often to visit.
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Hi!
I haven't checked in for a while, school is out and since I don't have a studio to work in yet I haven't been working on any new pieces. I have a few good ones planned though so starting in September I should be back on track. I have been playing with my Photoshop program designing boxes for my jewelry and charm swaps and working on a scrapbook for my Mom's 98th Birthday. Hope to have some pics of some of this stuff up soon. Meanwhile, I just thought I would drop in a pic of Mom & Dad in their younger days.
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Friday, July 6, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
Secret Places


My latest creation. This is a drawer ring. It is made from sterling silver with bezel set turquoise and yellow fiber optic stones.
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
FOR SALE
If anybody is interested I just wanted to let you know that if you see any jewelry that I've made that you like I can make them for you. Even though I have used different types of metals in the pieces I have shown I work predominately in sterling silver. I also take special orders. Just email me at the7gildedroses@aol.com. There will be more to come so keep checking in.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Driving in Manhattan
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Still Going Strong
I started a diet on March 5 and I weighed in today. (Drum roll).............................................
I've lost 31 lbs so far. Yippee!!! The best part is I'm still into it, although when I go to check out Suzi Finer's blog I drool a lot.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
7th Quirk
I finally thought of my 7th quirk and boy am I a REAL Virgo.
I cannot send an email out with typos and live chats are very stressful because I'm afraid I'm taking too long because I have to check everything I'm typing before I send.
Between quirk 5, 6 and 7 I have realized that I am way too anal retentive.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Polymer Clay Teapot
I was asked by a friend to put this piece on the blog. It's an Ancient Chinese tea pot I
made out of polymer clay over a hollowed out gourd.
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Saturday, May 19, 2007
6th Quirk
I thought of another quirk of mine to add to the earlier list.
Once I start something I have to finish it. I have a hard time putting it down. The other day I stayed up until 4:30am working on a template for my mini book charms. I become obsessed with the project and loose track of time. Sometimes I don't even stop to eat. Today I spent the whole day working on a prototype of a ring I want to make. First I made a template, then I made it with construction paper to see if the template worked and then I made the prototype out of some 36ga copper foil. Next step is to make it out of sterling silver and find a stone to set into it.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
One More Charm for the Swap
I'm on to my next project. I'm thinking of doing some more mini books. I start a new class next Tuesday it is an abridged semester. I'm taking an Independent Study Course so I get to come up with the project that I'm going to work on. I better get my sketch book out.
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Monday, May 7, 2007
2 More for the Charm Swap
This charm is made from copper sheet with wire soldered onto it and a stone and brass element. This one is NOT my favorite. I guess I'll probably work on some others before I make my final choice.
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I've Been Tagged
I was tagged by Amber Dawn and I have to post 7 quirky things about myself. So far I have only come up with 5 so I'll post them and come back later when I can think of the last 2.
First quirk- I like tattoos. I have 4 of them. My biggest is visible in my picture to the right. I will probably be getting at least 1 more.
Second quirk- I wear hot pink cat's eye eyeglasses.
Third quirk- I have a pink streak in my hair.
Fourth quirk- I dress my dog up when we go out. I especially like to dress him up on Holloween in costumes that I make for him.
Fifth quirk- Everything has a place and I have to put everything back in it's place. Unfortunately, I have officially run out of places. I need to move or rent a studio space to work. Anybody out there got a space for me to rent??? (NYC)
6 & 7 to come.......
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
Charming Purses
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Metal Charms
These are a few charms that I'm making for a soldered charm swap. The photo on the left is the front and the photo on the right is the back of the outer 2. The smiley face is set in a sterling silver bezel and is not glued. The key hole is soldered on and the back of the charms are all soldered on pieces.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This charm is both soldered and the center piece is glued with jewelry glue. Not something I like to use in my pieces. I like to try and make all my connections when using metal by soldering or cold connections.
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Latest and "So Far" Greatest
My newest creation. This sterling silver ring with garnet, ruby and pink sapphire cabochons is my most ambitious endeavor so far. I had a lot of fun making it from scratch. I started out with sheet silver to make the ring base then fabricated the bezels from silver wire that I milled flat. After soldering the bezels onto the ring I cut out the base around the bezels so that all you would see is the bezels.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Things are looking up
The weather seems to be getting better and I've been able to get some work done.
This is a Ginko cuff bracelet I made from copper. This is the very first thing I ever designed and fabricated in Metalsmithing class.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
Enough of the winter already
HELP!!! I'm being held captive by the weather. By the end of February I have about all I can stand of the winter. March comes and even though I know it's the screwiest month of the year I'm always hopeful. It's snowing today. It's suppose to be bad too. So that means I'm stuck in my little one bedroom Manhattan closet until it melts. I long for the day I can grab my little doggy, put him in his basket on my walker and we can go sit in the park. I long for trees that are full of rich green leaves instead of bare twigs. Sunny skies warming my skin.
This picture was taken downstairs from my apartment in April 2003.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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Memories
Back in the 80's I started writing lyrics with the hope that my husband (he wasn't my husband at the time) would write music for. I have a couple of notebooks full of lyrics now and I pulled one of the oldest ones out and found a tune that I think is pretty good but then it had a lot of meaning to me at the time. I've decided to share it with the world myself since it has never been made into a song (yet?).
How Could Love Be Wrong
Verse 1-
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Monday, March 12, 2007
Friday, March 9, 2007
New Pics old pieces
I took a few pics of some of my old beaded stuff that I've been hording away to one day do a craft fair.
I put them in the car in case anyone wanted to see them and then forgot about them. So I pulled them out and took some pictures of a few pieces.
The red and jet crystal piece is a chocker with a heart and arrow toggle clasp.
Then there is a jet and amythest AB choker with jet cut beads and lavender teardrop beads
dangling from chain.
Third piece are faux pearls with turquoise chip beads necklace and earrings.
Forth pic is beaded bangles in jet, amber, cobalt blue, and light blue.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Snow Day
What a drag it snowed so I couldn't get out and I had a class today. We are working on an eternity ring in sterling and I'm using garnets, rubies and pink saphires. Hopefully things will clear up and I'll be able to make it to a workshop, I already paid for, on Friday. It's a one day thing and we are going to learn how to make a Hollow Lock and Key clasp. I'm psyched.
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Friday, March 2, 2007
Mini book swap
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New Piece
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
No More Excuses
I ordered a tabletop photo studio kit from Hammacher Schlemmer to shoot products with. It comes with lights, 2 backdrops, compact light box and an integrated diffuser screen and tripod that folds up into a little storage/carrying case. Now I won't have an excuse for taking bad photos of my pieces. It also means I have to start shooting all my pieces.
Well I hope all who look on will enjoy them. Feel free to comment I love to meet new people and hope to become part of the vast creative community out there.
I also want to thank all the wonderfully creative artist that were part of Amber Dawn's Charm swap. The charms I received were exquisite little works of art. I don't know what to do with them because I don't want to separate them from the packaging which are also creative pieces unto themselves. I am presently keeping them in a beautiful wooden cigar box that is on display for everyone to check out and enjoy.
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
VALENTIES DAY
Boy do I have a great husband. Today is Valentines Day and he gave me a very beautiful, mushy card, a big box of Godiva Chocolates and a Ty stuffed dog that looks like Mugsy. The fur is made of silk. What a sweetie pie guy.
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Celtic Cross
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Saturday, February 10, 2007
Learning to take product shots & other thoughts
I guess if I want to show my work on this blog I'm going to need to brush up on taking photos of my pieces. I look at other blogs and salivate at the quality of the photos. I hope I can do the pieces justice. I would like to share my passion for my work with as many people as I can so start looking out for it in the near future.
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My dear friend Amber is not feeling well and I am very upset because she is such a special person. I often feel that Divine providence came into play when I met her. She has been a great source of inspiration and an incredible talent in her own right. My thoughts are most certainly with her and her husband at this time.
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Friday, February 9, 2007
Until I can figure out how to do a little decorating around here I thought I'd include a picture of my cutie pie (Mugsy Malone) to spiff things up around here a bit. He is a 3 year old Maltese.
I'm stuck on trying to figure out how to change my header. I designed a new title but the settings area where I can edit the box doesn't seem to allow anything more than text????
Well back to the drawing board!
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Thursday, February 8, 2007
Today I start a journey in the tale of my creativity. I am an aspiring jeweler & multi-medium artist. Please enjoy this journey with me.
Regina Rose
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