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elrhiarhodan ([personal profile] elrhiarhodan) wrote in [community profile] homemade2homemade2021-05-20 11:36 am
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Gifts Made for DirtyGreatKnife

My recipient this round was the lovely Star ([personal profile] dirtygreatknife) in Australia, and they have finally received my package. Star told me to go a head and post the pictures I took, which would give their aging computer a bit of breather.

Star said they loves both Egyptian Revival and weird jewelry, and both are dead center in my wheelhouse. I've been collecting Egyptian Revival pieces for about 30 years and was glad for the chance to use a few of them. And since some of the ones I used are distinctly weird, it was a double checkmark on the "what I like" list.

I freely admit I went a little overboard. Once I started making, I had a hard time stopping...

I started with the Nefretiti lariat style necklace, which is a pastiche of three different 1920’s Egyptian revival Czech glass bead necklaces that I’d collected over the years, and restrung and hand-knotted on silk thread.



The earrings are made from matching Czech glass beads and pendants, and since Star's signup didn’t say "no earrings" I figured that they do wear earrings. They are reversible, party in the front or business in the front. Unfortunately, Star doesn't wear earrings, but they have figured out how to wear them as pendants on the cord necklace shown below.



The bracelet uses the same beads and pattern as the earrings, but is not reversible, unfortunately (I tried, but there’s just to much heft in the front).



The star pendant was a fun experiment, and I’d just planned on tossing that in as an extra and sending everything off, but it was still too soon to mail...



So I got to looking around my stash and found the supremely ugly Pharaoh. Since Star had said they liked weird jewelry, so I went with that. In their confirmation emails, they told me that they are very pleased with the oddity of it. It’s from the 1920s, same vintage as the Nefretiti necklace.



That and the little star pendant will go on the braided blue necklace, which is an 8-cord kumihimo.

I am so thrilled that the package arrived safe in the Land Down Under and I can't wait for next year's exchange.
minoanmiss: A detail of the Ladies in Blue fresco (Lady in Blue)

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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-05-20 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my goodness, what gorgeous wearable art!
ambyr: a dark-winged man standing in a doorway over water; his reflection has white wings (watercolor by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law) (Default)

[personal profile] ambyr 2021-05-20 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow, I really love this color palette!
celli: a woman and a man holding hands, captioned "i treasure" (Default)

[personal profile] celli 2021-05-20 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, wow!
yourlibrarian: Arthur Joust Grin by yourlibrarian (MERL-ArthurJoustGrin -yourlibrarian)

[personal profile] yourlibrarian 2021-05-20 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh I love these, what a great style.
dirtygreatknife: By me. (Default)

[personal profile] dirtygreatknife 2021-05-21 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you again for all of these, I love them all so much!
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[personal profile] tielan 2021-05-21 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
That is spectacular! Beautifully done!

[personal profile] c_art 2021-05-21 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
they look fantastic! <3
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[personal profile] tigerweave 2021-05-21 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I love them! They're so fabulous. And the pharoah with the strange beard thingy. so funky.

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[personal profile] akamarykate 2021-05-22 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, these are impressive! The design of the first necklace is particularly appealing.
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[personal profile] tjs_whatnot 2021-05-22 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Vivid and breathtaking and I am again awed by you and your skill and eye. ♥ ♥