Wednesday 29 February 2012

Poppy Challenge Blog Hop


It's here! The date of the Poppy Challenge Blog Hop seemed ages away when I set it, but the last week has flown by! I planned out what I wanted to make early on, but I've come to realise that I'm the type of person who will plan and plan, sketch ideas out, work out how to do it in their heads and then, finally, make it just before the deadline. Which usually works out just fine as all that planning means that the making is usually quick, but with Jamie being ill I did start to worry that I was going to miss the deadline - which would have been embarrassing considering I set the challenge!

So, this is what I planned and planned and finally made on Sunday.....


The challenge was to make something lovely from two of my poppy headpins. I sent five pairs of headpins out to the people listed below, a mix of oxidised copper, oxidised silver and bright silver, and made a pair for me too. I had a pair of oxidised silver poppies, and I knew that I wanted to make a pendant rather than a pair of earrings. I twisted the stem of the poppies onto one of my large teardrops, making them sit slightly to one side. I liked that, but knew that I wanted a bit more movement and a little bit of colour so I used normal headpins to wind tiny faceted amethyst beads onto a smaller teardrop, and then used a jump ring to hang both teardrops together from a chain. It's got more of a romantic feel than most of the jewellery I've been making recently, but I really like it, and it's lovely and light to wear.

The other poppy challengers are

Marissa                Sea Flowers Studios
Molly Alexander               Beautifully Broken Me
Kristi      Curiosities by K
Fiona     TizDuster
Jennifer Cameron            Glass Addictions

I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone has made - please do go and look and join in the fun!

P.S. Thank you to those of you who left a comment/emailed/facebooked about Jamie - apart from being tireder than usual and not having his full appetite back he's back to his normal happy, smiling, crawling round the house at top speed self!

23 comments:

  1. This is amazing! You do wonders with sterling and wire! I love this!

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  2. Was interested in this challenge as I'm still working on ideas for my enameled poppies! Love yours!

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  3. I love your necklace! the simplicity and elegance are wonderful. thank you.

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  4. Gorgeous necklace!! I love the poppies and the necklace is simple but so elegant!

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  5. Sweet blog hop! I love your poppies. Will have to get some. Great necklace, love the addition of the gems.
    Cilla

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  6. That turned out really cool. Can't wait to see what everyone else did.

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  7. Oh my those are so cute...love what you did with them...can't wait to see what everyone else did....

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  8. Thank you for letting me play in the challenge. Your pendent is gorgeous! Now off to the other blogs to see what they did.

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  9. Wow I love how completely different each design is on the different blogs, amazing and just beautiful...what a fun idea for a blog hop. Really making me wish I could wear metal jewelery!

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  10. So good. I feel a bit feeble with my offering!

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  11. Beautiful! Funny the similarities we have in our pieces! It was so much fun to take part in this challenge!

    So glad to hear Jamie is feeling better!

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  12. I love your creation. It's really elegant.

    Ambra

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  13. Jo, first of all, thank you again for the opportunity to participate in this challenge - I loved being able to work with your beautiful headpins, as I have been an admirer of your work for a long time. All of the designs are so different - it is interesting to see the unique creative processes of all of the participants.

    Your necklace is, as expected, absolutely stunning - simple and elegant, with visual weight and movement. The splash of color works perfectly with the oxidized silver - beautiful!

    Thanks again for hosting this hop, and I am glad to see your son is feeling better!

    :) Molly

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  14. I love it. Very organic and elegant and I adore the addition of purple. I would wear this every day if it was mine.

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  15. Absolutely beautiful! I love staring at the ones I bought from you!

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  16. Jo, Your pendant is so pretty! I love the little touch of purple on the silver Wow!
    Therese

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  17. I love your pendant. It is such a wonderful way to use the headpins. The whole thing is just gorgeous.

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  18. ABsolutely love what you've created here. It's so pretty, feminine, delicate, unusual....totally brilliant. I love where your work is going at the moment.

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  19. This is a beautiful piece Jo! I love the subtle hint of color that the amethyst lends to the piece. And of course loooove the poppies! :) Going to hop and see what everyone else did with them!

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  20. Beautiful necklace - love that design! The poppies are beautiful!!

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  21. I really like what you did with the headpins. Adding the little amethyst beads was a lovely touch - 'softening' the necklace and brightening it up.

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