Butterfly

The past couple of weeks have been relatively uneventful except for an emergency room visit, a process I’m well familiar with so I wrote a small story titled “Emergency Room tips for the novice”. This was censored by my husband as inappropriate for this blog, so if you wish to read it (424 words), you will need to let me know and I will email the PDF to you.

As someone who works predominantly with Sterling Silver, I am always concerned about tarnish and oxidation of the jewelry pieces I create. In Hawai’i, this is even more so predominant thanks to our sulfur-spewing volcano. Shortly before hurricane Iselle hit the Big Island earlier this month, I visited the Volcanoes National Park wearing lovely silver earrings, which by the end of the day had turned completely black!

Minimizing the effects of oxidation of your silver-containing jewelry (unless it is a deliberate part of the design) means limiting exposure to air. I keep all my pieces in plastic zippered bags, along with anti-tarnish-tabs, but any enclosure is helpful. I want to share with you an informative video on how to clean your silver jewelry.

That’s all for now, I mean to take this Labor Day weekend serious and take a break to clear my thoughts, a need to which this blog attests to. Here are a couple of photos from my studio, a design focusing on a beautiful silver butterfly clasp. Since it will only lay flat when hanging sideways, it will end up as an asymmetrical necklace, which is so much more fun and challenging! I’m still not set on the overall color scheme, so next time, I will write about one of my favorite subjects: color.

Papillon…you will be released soon.

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