I’ve been a little over worked lately and have some serious catching up to do. Until further notice, I won’t be accepting any new orders for jewelry. I’m very sorry for the inconvenience.
If you’d like to be notified when I’m accepting wholesale orders again, please let me know using the contact form.
For everyone else, please order through BodyArtForms, Mega-Robot, or Steel Navel.
Cheers,
-Jesse
Thought I’d kick some dust off the ol’ website. Since the one-post-a-week plan totally up and died, I’ve decided to embrace entropy and update whenever I feel like it, all willy nilly.
Another in this month’s wave of experimenting. I’ll call it green jasper for now, but I don’t know if the next batch will look the same.
I get a lot of requests for amber purple and other colors with shimmering characteristics.
(For some excellent examples of these colors, I suggest checking out Annemarie’s shop on Etsy, Glass Heart Studio. I’m sure most of you are already familiar with her work – if not, go take a look. Her use of color is amazing.)
The truth is I’m not very good at working with these colors, mostly out of a lack of experience. But there’s a couple other things in the way. All my jewelry is encased in clear, for various reasons. The greatest benefit of this is that it helps prevent the flame from effecting the color. Somewhat ironic since that’s exactly what needs to happen to create that shimmering effect. The second hurdle is that I work on a punty – basically a glass handle that’s cold-welded to the face of the piece I’m working on, usually near the wearing surface. Sometimes you can see a blemish if I mess up when removing the punty. It helps with symmetry, especially designs like the helixes or mustaches, where each piece needs to be symmetrical to itself. Here’s the crux: If I don’t encase the glass in clear, I can get all kinds of shimmer. But at some point I have to go back and heal the punty (i.e. re-melt the glass where the handle was attached). Doing so would remove the shimmer, leaving a large and obvious color difference. It would take a lot of relearning to work without a punty; it’s sort of an old dog/new tricks type of situation.
That said, I’m still experimenting with some color changing colors underneath the layer of clear. I have a few samples that I’ll be posting this month. Some of them might be just a one time thing, but anything I can reproduce consistently will become part of the palette.
These are my sister’s. I wasn’t there when she opened the package, but I know she was jumping up and down.
Again, not sure about the size. I think they were 4g, but they look a bit smaller than that in the photo.
I don’t remember what size these were, but they look like 2g to me.
Holy crap! I have a website. I should update it. I’ll make a few posts today to catch up with my once-a-week quota, which apparently fell off a cliff in May.
Plaid plaid plaid, plaid plaid PLAID plaid plaid. Plaid plaid plaid plaid!
Aprils Fools – wah, wah
Edit: There was a special title picture for April 1st. It’s gone now, which makes the following paragraph seem a bit out of context. Oh well.
One of my wholesale customers used to misunderstand me when I answered the phone. He thought I was saying “Sodomy Glass” instead of “Somatic…” It became a joke that I thought I’d share with the world.
Unlike the business name, this Plaid color is totally real though. Finally, something to go with all those shirts right? It’s pre-made by Glass Alchemy, and I can order it in a variety of colors. I’m gonna pick up a batch of red and beryl next time. If you’d like to see a particular combination of colors, shout off in the comments!
Cheers!
