Dress up your fingers with leaf rings

Leaf ring 1, copper
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Lately I have become quite interested( actually fascinated is more like it :D ) in fold forming, but as I am out of the required 24 gauge metal to experiment with it, I thought about creating some pieces with just trying to 'turn' the metal with my hammer , so here is what I came up with : I used some copper scrap( 22 ga) cut out some shapes and for some reason all of them seemed to resemble leaves in various stages of drying up !

To make them more interesting I soldered a few of the nuggets that I periodically save from my  electro-forming experiments ! ( great way to use scrap rather then just sell it to my scrap guy - yup I got a scrap guy too :) gives great deals !)

While creating the band I was not really sure about the size so I have kept them adjustable so any body can now enjoy them! :) Thinking of calling them 'leaf rings' what do  you think, do they remind you of leaves?? Dried and folded up but definitely the third in the series reminded me of a lily pad what say?

Leaf ring 4, copper
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Leaf ring 3, copper
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Leaf ring 2, copper
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Captured-Rose quartz

Rose quartz, Amethyst drops , copper
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I had bought these three rose quartz cabochons a few months ago and try as I might I could not come up with any  interesting design to use these. Then a few days back as I kept wondering how to 'capture' these, I figured out exactly how to do that, I decided to create copper wire 'captures for them. Since there were three identical ones, a pendant set with matched earrings seemed like the best approach. Although not conventional in design I think I managed to have a little bit of old world influence in them, what do you think? I am continuing this series as I have quite a treasure trove of cabochons that I managed to hunt out from my bead guy :) In face the next one is a surprise, will be finishing it soon so stay tuned!

Announcing Nayna Studios official website!!!

        I have been silent on this front for a long time now and would like to apologize, there is a good reason  though!! Nayna Studios is now officially in the cyberspace!! Yes there is now officially a website for Naynastudios-jewellery 

      Ever since the first article appeared in the daily Mid-Day there have been a lot of queries about where folks can look at more designs and I have been working on a website for this.
While I will continue to write here and with even more regularity been guilty of doing a disappearing act :( but can I be blamed, making jewellery is soooo much fun  :)  and posting all the happenings in the studio. The website is the place to look at a gallery of my work and also for those interested in picking up pieces you will be able to get pricing and other details there .
     Also the blog has a new look now, that matches with the website colours, what do you think too sober? I did want the colours of my pieces to stand out though, hope this helps!!
Will be posting soon about the latest goings on, stay tuned!!