Saturday 14 April 2012

Flap Your Wings


A month after Judy passed away, 31 designers have made jewellery in her memory, with Flap Your Wings as inspiration as that was the name of Judy's jewellery website. I gave you a little taster of what my design looked like last night - and here it is!

Lampwork disc bead by Outwest, lampwork spacers left over from other projects, silverwork and lovebird clasp by me

I took this apart three times! Three times! That is really unusual for me, as I usually have ingredients for designs lined up on my workdesk for so long that by the time I come to make them up I've usually already worked through all the kinks in my head, so making the actual finished piece is fairly quick. Not this time though! I knew that I wanted to use one of my lovebird clasps to fit in with the theme, and I wanted to use the gorgeous lampwork donut by Outwest (well spotted Julie, yes that's one of yours!), and I wanted to make a bracelet as I would normally use a donut as part of a pendant, but my original plan had been to soften the black and blue with either macrame or silk ribbon. Those were the attempts that I took apart as it just didn't look right - too messy, too many different looks in one small piece of jewellery - so I ended up wire-wrapping it all!

The clasp has a hook on the back of the bird to close the bracelet

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm auctioning the bracelet off to raise money for the Wessex Cancer Trust, a charity that raises money for cancer research (which helps all of us, no matter where we are!) and supports cancer patients and their families in the south of the UK. I'm also donating half of the proceeds from the pieces I made with my Bead Soup from Michi to the charity, but I'll post properly about those next week so there's no confusion!

The bidding starts at £15 (just under $24) for the Flap Your Wings bracelet - 
to enter a bid leave a comment on this post and let me know how much you'd like to bid,
or email me and I'll comment on your behalf.
I'll keep a running total on this post and the top of my blog, so keep coming back to see if you've been outbid!
There's no extra cost for postage, no matter where you are in the world!
The bidding will end at midnight BST on Thursday 19th April.
Please do make certain that you either leave your email address in your comment or have your email address linked to your profile - thank you!

Thank you so much to all of you who bid and spread the word about all the Flap Your Wings auction, and thank you especially to Lynne who won the bidding with her bid of £70 US$114!

And to see the other designs in the Flap Your Wings challenge please visit the blogs below!































36 comments:

  1. Lovely :) Since your bidders are most likely going to be international, what's that in USD? I have another bid on another piece elsewhere, so I need to know just how much I'm bidding here and I'm too lazy to look up exchange rates myself ;)

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  2. Good point! I’ll look it up and add it to the post.
    Thanks!
    Jo

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  3. I'll start the bidding at $30.00. Love how it turned out!

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  4. Wow, Jo, that is absolutley gorgeous! I will up the bidding to $40 US dollars. Truly beautiful!

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  5. So beautiful Jo! The clasp is definitely amazing! A perfect tribute to Judy!!

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  6. Wonderful reveal :) and the clasp is awesome! lovely bracelet

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  7. Positively gorgeous. When will bidding be over (or did I gloss over that part?)

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  8. Thank you Rebecca!
    Lori, the bidding ends at midnight BST on Thursday - it wasn't exactly a short post, so I'm not surprised if you glossed over it!

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  9. The little bird with the heart is so sweet! All those re-dos were really worth it... what a lovely bracelet it grew to be!!

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  10. I love everything about this! You're work is great, but this piece is exceptional.

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  11. Love it, I would like to bid $60.00

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  12. Love that design, Joanne!!! Beautiful!!!

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  13. It's lovely! I'll bid 39 Pounds don't have a pound symbol on this keyboard think that's about 62.00 US... Mine got taken apart a number of times too...

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  14. I raise you to $65.00 and my email is mlgovaar@pacbell.net

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  15. Oooh! i was outbid!!!!! Let's raise the bidding! It's for an excellent cause! So, I raise the bid to $80 USD please!!!

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  16. OK I'll raise it too! £53.50 approx $85.19 USD

    Thanks!

    Lynne

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  17. Oooh! I love a good bidding war!!! i respectfully raise it to $100 USD!!!!

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  18. It's yours! Enjoy...! Wasn't his fun!

    Lynne

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  19. This is a blast!!! It is for such a worthty cause, and let's face it, a Joanne original! A steal!!!!

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  20. Oh my word!!!
    I go to bed, go to Ben's school to help out there this morning and come back to find a mini bidding war has been going on! Thank you so much!

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  21. I thought the bidding ended at midnight on Tuesday... I may change my mind of being done with bidding! :)

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  22. Now now ladies - play nicely :)
    T's worried that I've started a fight!!

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  23. I actually have a bid on something else too.. or I might have gone higher this time

    £70 just over $114 USD , and I already have a bird toggle that I can use in a matching necklace

    Your Turn :)

    Lynne

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  24. Thank you so very much Lynne! I'll be in touch today!

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  25. Got your invoice! All paid Now I have incentive to use my bird toggle... ! Thanks so much! I'll let you know when I get it!

    Lynne

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  26. Ok this piece so speaks to my spirit! Ur work is Ammmmmazing! I'm so glad a lucky bidder grabbed it! TY for such a great post!

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