My Weekend Outfit

Romantic Flower in Hands Necklace, Frida Kahlo inspired, Doll Arms and Enamel Necklace, Enamel Flower Statement Necklace by StaroftheEast

Woodland Mori Girl Skirt Fairy tale Deer Vintage Gobelin Clothing Woodland Gobelin Tapestry Fabric Clothing US size 4 / 8 EU size 34 / 38 by StarsWear

Knitted Flowers Bag Carnations Bucket Purse Pull string Purse, Hand Knitted with Leather strap by StarBags

Newly Listed: Sea Urchin Ring and Necklace

 Handcrafted Sea Urchin Sterling Silver Ring Seashore Treasure, US size 6.5 by StaroftheEast

Sea Urchin Leaves Necklace, Sterling Silver Brown and Pink Necklace, Beach Jewelry by StaroftheEast

Oregon Coast Wall Art, Pacific Northwest Print, Oregon Beach Photography, Washed Out Coastline, Oregon Landscape, Coastal Beach Wall Art by InkishPrints

Coastal Boardwalk, Fall Wall Art, Nautical Photography Print, Neutral Home Decor Art, Beach Print, Cindy Taylor Photography, Fine Art Print cottagelightstudio

Newly Listed: Beaded Triangle Necklace

Kinetic Necklace, Beaded Triangle Necklace, Pink and Turquoise, Japanese Miyuki Beads by StarDelights
Fine Art Beach Photography by CarlaGDesignandPhoto
Geometric prints Printable decor, Aqua pink art, Turquoise pink, wall decor by EphericaArt
Jet Stream, Abstract Expressionist Contemporary Art, Huge Turquoise Pink Abstract Canvas Art Print  by IrenaOrlov

Tassel Fun

After the large tassels for the ornaments I showed on Monday, here are some tiny tassels. Making tassels with forks was a big surprise looking at the reactions on Instagram, but my mother learned it like that in Spain at school :)

After finishing the tassels I added brass caps with loops for a more chicer finishing. I then threaded them with many tiny glass seed beads and brass beads in to multi layered necklaces.

For now one in shades of blue, green and turquoise...

And one in shades of pink, peach and purple but more shades are in the planning.

Also thinking about bracelet in this style!

These two bohemian necklaces are available at StarDelights :)

Newly Listed: Sterling Silver Aquamarine Necklace

Sterling Silver Aquamarine Necklace, Art Nouveau style, Leaves of Nature by StaroftheEast
Skyline Landscape Photography, Aqua Sky Photo, White Clouds, Trees by TreetopPhotoShop
Beach house photography, art photo print, ocean, wall home decor,  Florida picture by MFphotoart
Ocean Photography, Wall Art, Beach Landscape, Seascape, Art Print, Wall Decor by ColorPopPhotoShop

Newly Listed: Whale Tail Necklace

Whale Tail Necklace - Nautical Necklace Beach Jewelry Leather and Metal Unisex by StarDelights
Seashell Still Life Photography Sea Shell Coastal Wall Art Pastel Beach Print by GalleryZooArt
Minimalist Bird photo, Seagull, Beach decor. Pastel, summer photography by NancyFalsoPhotos
Windy Day Photography Hair Blowing Sunny Blue Sky print Shine...by VictoriaEnglishCharm

Newly Listed: Pyramid Amethyst Necklace

Pyramid Amethyst Necklace Kuchi Necklace Healing Stone, Purple Shades, Healing Stone, Tribalfusion by StaroftheEast
Photography, cloud photography print, purple wall art, nature photography, fine art print, wall decor, Wonder by SpringBurst
Nature Print, Purple Wall Decor, Heather Photography Print, Large Wall Art, Botanical Print, Nature Art, Home Decor by AgaFarrell
Vancouver photograph, Coal Harbour, Stanley Park seawall, Vancouver skyline, wall decor, Misty Mauve by SandyWigginsImages

Newly Listed: Butterfly Necklace

Butterfly Necklace Vintage Watch glass, Black veined white butterfly, metal, solder, Aporia crataegi by StaroftheEast
Black And White Photograph Of A Monarch Butterfly Caterpillar Print by RedHedgePhotos
Spider Web, Black and White Photograph, Nature Photography, Nature Prints, Spiderweb Art, Photo by JLMPhotographs
Dandelion Art Macro Dandelion Photography Dandelion Seeds Wall Art Picture of Dandelions Print by AmyTylerPhotography

The Highest Tide

I've never recommended a book before here on our blog, which is actually quite weird when you know that mum and I are both avid readers and not a days passes that we don't read.
The reason why I am doing it now is maybe because this book, The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch, is all about the sea which is a topic we love and of course the sea inspires a lot of our creations.
Although it is a bestseller I never had heard of it but it caught my eye in our local second hand book store.
Mum read it first and was totally in love with it, but she wanted me to wait so that she could print out images of all the marine creatures mentioned in the book.
The book is so magically written that you'll think that the animals mentioned in them are fiction but they are in fact all real.

I was especially shocked to find out that the Giant Squid was actually a real thing, also known as The Kraken. I'm sure you have seen a movie with the Kraken, like The Pirates of the Caribbean (a movie I totally love btw) where it destroys an entire ship. But before you get nightmares about it, it is a deep sea creature which actually hardly has been seen in its natural habitat and is mostly found in the stomachs of stranded sperm whales or sometimes they get stranded on the beaches of New Zealand, Norway and Newfoundland. Also they are not as huge as shown in movies, but they are impressive non the less.

(Kraken (version 2) by Chris-Garrett)

So if you decide to buy/ read the book, have a source of internet near by to checkout the animals mentioned as it makes it even more amazing. Jim Lynch does explain them all very well, but images does make it more impressive.

I decided to blog about this book way before this necklace came to life, but as it matches it so well and as we are very proud of the result I thought to show it off here :)
To give the impression of a pirate ship on sea we surrounded the beautiful vintage ship with large pieces of Variscite, small pieces of Lapis Lazuli and Pyrite as treasures hunted by the pirates :)
Available in our StaroftheEast shop.

Newly Listed: Copper Agate Necklace

Copper Agate Necklace - Wire wrapped Art Nouveau Gemstone Jewelry by StarDelights
Abstract Fine Art Photography Industrial Rust Orange Red Rust, Red Head by sherilwright
Autumn photograph, muted colors, flower wall art, ethereal, botanical print, fine art photograph by dullbluelight
Nature Photography, Orange, Rustic, Fall Decor, Fall Leaves, Large Wall Art, Brown, Autumn by Racetay

Our Creative Space...

For years we have collected all kind of oddities from the beach. While our focus is on sea urchins we have accumulated a lot of other things like a nice amount of crab claws and bodies.

And starfishes. Both of these finds are fragile, so we never really used much of them.
We tried to cast them in resin but somehow resin never really worked out for us.

For ages we thought of electroforming and investigated the materials and method, we bought some tutorials about them and finally made the investment. As the electronics came for the US and the chemicals from the UK it took a while to get them.

The pieces first needed to be coated in several layers of lacquer and then in graphite paint which is an electric conductive paint.

And then each piece was electroformed one by one connecting both the anode and the piece to electricity, copper goes off the anode and attaches itself to the piece.

Even though you see that it gets a layer of copper pretty quickly, a nice solid layer can take a while, these all took around 30 hours each to make them suitable to wear.

After that they got patina'ed with liver of sulver for a nice dark finish. I high lighted the texture with a metal brush, as it was entirely black at first.
And here finally after months of preps, the first electroformed pieces, we will also make silver ones soon!

I will be slowly listing them today in our StaroftheEast shop, and we'll continue to experiment with more beach found oddities :)

Newly Listed: Infinity Necklace

Infinity Necklace Sterling Oxidized Silver Kazaziye Handwoven Infinity Jewelry by StaroftheEast
Black and White Photography, Bubble Print, Soap Bubble Photography Photo by CarolynCochrane
birches in winter fog, fine art black & white photograph, nature by KSinclairPhotography
Plumes - Gallery Wrap Canvas Photograph. feather plumage art print home decor photo photography by kristaglavich

Newly Listed: Caged Seashell Necklace

Caged Seashell Necklace Sterling Silver Kazaziye Handwoven Fine Silver Jewelry by StaroftheEast
wonderment, snow, winter, dreamy, fine art photography by BeverlyLeFevre
Ocean photography, coastal seascape photograph, sunbeams clouds photograph by LupenGrainne
SPIRO, Andalusian Horse , Dapple Grey, Edition Art Print, Wall Decor by SpiritedImage

Newly Listed: Oxidized Sterling Silver Necklace

Oxidized Sterling Silver Necklace - Handwoven Infinity knot with Vintage Findings by StaroftheEast
Seed pod photograph - poppy pods nature art natural photography print by LupenGrainne
Tree photography, Fall photography, Woodland Art Print, Golden Forest by MOONGARDENART
Bench on Brooklyn Bridge, New York Print, Fine Art Photography by EyePoetryPhotography

Newly Listed: Sterling Silver Cherry Quartz Necklace

Sterling Silver Cherry Quartz Necklace with Pearls wire wrapped by StaroftheEast
BOUGAINVILLEA Art Print on Panel, Pink Peach Taupe, Decor, Floral Nature by artBJC
Surreal photography Pink wall art photo landscape tree Cottage chic by sunshineartdesign
Pink Flowering Gum, flowers and bees, popular nature art print by TevaKiwi

A Different Perspective

We have been very busy lately and thoroughly neglected our blog! In a month our course is ending and we'll be able to relax a bit and give all our online places some much needed attention. Until then I still won't be able to update the blog often but I will do my best :)

In the mean time I wanted to share two lovely Instagram shares with two of our creations :) The first here on the top was shared by Tenderblue who has a lovely Etsy shop with knitted baby clothing. The necklace has traveled from Turkey to Portugal and will now go for a visit to Ghana, Africa! Our jewelry travel more than we do :) Below you can see the necklace a little closer up.

The picture below was shared by TheBlueRabbitHouse accompanied with a illustration of a whale drawn by her. Her shop is full with beautiful embroidered accessories and illustration.

And below a close up from our shop :)

Thank you girls for sharing these pictures :)
It is so much fun to see our jewelry from a different perspective!

Newly Listed: Sea Urchin Jasper Necklace

Sea Urchin Jasper Necklace with Pearl and Gold Plated findings by StaroftheEast
Country Landscape Photograph birds on fence pasture, morning sunlight foggy by FirstLightPhoto
Nature Photograph, Autumn Fine Art Photography, Home Decor, Living Room Wall Art by Briole
Woods - Fairytale Photography - Forest Photos - Nature Photographs - Landscape by slightclutter

Newly Listed: Sterling Silver Citrine Necklace

Sterling Silver Citrine Necklace Yellow Sunshine Healing Stone necklace by StaroftheEast
nature photography, yellow fruit, botanical art, sunlight photograph by LupenGrainne
Animal Photography bird photo spring feathers art yellow green leaves pale art print by Lori411
Country photography flower nature wildflower wall art Fine Art Print by SeeWorldThruMyEyes

Newly Listed: Peacock Feather Necklace

Peacock Feather Necklace Vintage Watch glass, Peacock feather, metal, solder by StaroftheEast
A Girl and Her Peacock Art Print from an original acrylic painting by Irene Owens / TinyRed
Peacock Photo, Feathers, Vintage Tone Texture, Bird Lover, Home Decor by PrettyPetalStudio
Peacock Art Print - Peacock Artwork - Bird Art - Wall Art - Intoxicant by BlackInkArtz

Newly Listed: Moon Necklace

Moon Necklace Vintage Watch glass, Full Moon - I love you to the moon and back by StaroftheEast
Whimsical Photography Night Sky Moon and Stars Night Landscape by ara133photography
Gravity - Photography fine art print diorama art by ClemensWirth
Milky Way Photography, Night Star Photography, Astrophotography by CHughesPhotography