We've got the vision, now let's have some fun.

Sketches by me.

 Bull necklace

 Feather earring

 Elephant ring with ruby eyes.

 Belt buckle outlines, can you guess which one I decided to go with?

 Belt with belt buckle attachment.

Snake necklace. Something I've been working on for some time now. I wanted it to be like a snake necklace that I haven't seen. Well I haven't seen any snake necklaces that wrap all the way around the neck, at least not yet. Even so, I have a lot of different ideas for this type of necklace. It can go many different ways.

Might have already posted this one, but I'm not quite sure so just in case, heres the Bull belt design!

xoxo

Katie

December 1, 2010

Amazing jewelry I found in this book I rented from the library, I wonder if people still do that? Rent books from the library? Anyway, some more sketches, and some non-legitimate outfit posts because I had no one to photograph me that day! Scroll!

Collar-style necklaces, they were very inspiring!

Bracelets from the 1950s

And last, a necklace I made.

xo,

katie

Some old, some new, DESIGNS!

Some old and new designs that I have come across and created recently!

Based off a necklace I saw in a jewelry book. I posted a blog a while back about this piece!

This boot I drew would be really cool in gray, black, and a bluish gray color.

Squid necklace inspired by designs by Hanna Bernhard

More designs to come for sure! I have so many pictures to share i'm going to have to do separate posts. All for now. :)

-Katie

Feathery Friends

I think the fashion community is seriously lacking in feather jewelry. I can see little bits and pieces of feather jewelry coming up every now and then when I go out to shop. But i never see anything that I would wear. The things I'm seeing aren't extravagant enough! They're too boring, and too small!

So I decided to draw my own designs for feather jewelry and look around for some other feathery things that catch my eye.

I really enjoy feather jewelry. It reminds me of when I was younger my neighbor, me, and her mother used to go to antique stores that were all outside shops and they were run by real Indians. Each outside store had tons of feathery jewelry and other things that the Indians made.

We also would go antique shopping downtown www.cherokeeantiquerow.net/ and shop there too. I hope I get to do this again sometime! I'd love to go down there and take pictures and find neat little things.

Sketches

Here are some sketches for some necklaces that I've been working on since about Sept. 2009. It took me a while to organize them all into just one sketch book. I'm almost done and heres a little preview of whats to be shown!

Lust

 Alright, heres some necklaces that I've been creeping on recently. The first set is by far my favorite!

Hanna Bernhard

Can you believe someone actually came up with this stuff?! Wait, I actually can believe it...seriously, these necklaces are amazing, just take a look for yourself. I've never seen or even conjured up anything like this before.

They're made by a paris-based jewelry designer named Hanna Bernhard and you can visit her website http://www.french-bakelite.com/ to see so much more of her amazing jewelry.

This stingray is my favorite piece of hers. You probably can't read it but in this article it says that the stingray goes for $3200 at V.O.D (a boutique in Dallas, TX) and is 14 by 19 inches! I'd wear it, even if i'd need a neckbrace later on...

The rest of these pictures are straight off french-bakelite.com so thats why they say 'sold' on them.

This one I saw a while ago on www.seaofshoes.com. Great blog btw!

This one is another great masterpiece!

Gasp!

These are all some really amazing pieces by Hanna Bernhard. They're not even far from what im into designing!

more...

Heres some necklaces from a more antique/vintage line called Razza.

                           

This is all for now!

I really didn't want to make this an extremely long post so another part will be coming soon! For now (the post named 'Sketches' will be showing you some of my own designs.

Photo Credit!

Pictures from www.french-bakelite.com

and Razza Jewelry pictures from Ruby Lane, Etsy, Antique & Collectible, GoAntiques all found through Google Images.