When it comes to gardening, I have to live vicariously. You see, I don't have a green thumb. I must either enjoy the beauty of other people's gardens or simply imagine the perfect garden in my mind. One of the many flowers I would need is beautiful roses with soft, fluttering petals. Recently, I wandered through the Rose Gardens at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, WA. The roses there were fabulous and inspired me to hand create this rose pendant out of sterling silver. I love the depth that the layers of curved sterling petals gives this little pendant. It's about the size of a US dime. The specific rose that inspired this piece is shown in the main photo on the left.
The weekly theme this week for the Year of Jewelry Project is "My Secret Garden", so I'm using this piece as my weekly entry. I recently created a custom necklace for a client, using hand cut sterling silver and brass lotus leaves. I was quite please with the result and had originally planned to use that piece for my weekly entry to YOJ, but then on Friday, I was inspired to create this rose and have opted to use this instead.
The rose necklace is listed in my etsy shop here: My Secret Garden
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So cute Sandy!!!
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ReplyDeleteThank you Kristi and Sandi!
ReplyDeleteHi Sandy, hope you are keeping well. I've been a very bad blogger recently so am just catching up with some of my favourites.
ReplyDeleteLove this rose pendant - I'm such a fan of flowers in jewellery and this is simply beautiful and also beautifully simple!
Kristin :)
Hi Kristin! Nice to see you back and creating beautiful flowers of your own. Thanks for your sweet comments :)
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