Images from a bracelet, all hand painted (i think) perhaps porcelain, Heart 4.
Month: March 2025
Antique heart bracelet, maybe a queen and king?
Antique heart bracelet, maybe a queen and king?
Old bracelet, heart 2, kite
Old bracelet, heart 2, kite, see previous post for the story behind this tiny painted “ceramic?” artwork. At least 70 years old, add to that the years before I received it from my aunt. Possibly a ceramic painting, possibly NOT silver, but maybe, repaired at some point (more than 70 years ago), possible Chinese or Japanese. Any help is appreciated, find my email at PDQpatterns(dot)com
Bracelet heart painting, kite.
Very old bracelet, hearts painted
This image is from a very old bracelet, hearts painted apparently as ceramic, pretty much cracked now. I have had the bracelet for about 70 years. It was given to me by an aunt who was attending UCLA, and there was a member of the Hawaiian family? as the story was told to me, that was maybe a princess. The name given to me I cannot exactly remember, but something like Leihani. I have looked at some data online and the time frame does not seem to fit, but i have no doubt that my aunt had some information about the origin of the bracelet, as it was linked to a Hawaiian royal family.
Here is one such “heart” from 8 hearts. This looked Chinese to me, but a friend said that maybe it was closer to Japanese and NOT cloisonne, perhaps a painting.
Two images below are the original image (bottom) and top, vectorized, just for a different look. I would welcome any comments, though i have comments turned off on this wordpress site, i think you will find my email somewhere else, like PDQpatterns(dot)com.
The actual heart is a little less than 3/4 of an inch from point to top
A few eggs, spring 2025 – custom
These eggs are a little different than others I have made, in that they have embedded in them tiny pieces of fabric from the stash of a mother of a friend of mine who found a bag of 9 quilt tops that she had made in her lifetime but that were not finished. There were just a few pieces of scraps and so i tried to give a feeling 
of a couple of the fabrics in the design of these eggs, but also included some threads from each fabric kind of as a “keepsake”. For me, life is about having fun making remembrances, even as much as we would like to be remembered, memories are pretty short.
See the fabrics used in these decorated eggs on the left.
I made a polymer clay cane for the light fabric, not entirely successfully, and the other fabrics i used a backing of single color and added the elements and then flattened them into the flat backing of polymer clay. Some of the eggs have texture, some dont.
Because the quilt tops made by this mom were all “granny’s flower garden hexagon quilts” i did use that hexagon style on a couple of the eggs.
3 new little pots, all recycled reused items, except the mortar and grout (they are new)
3 new little pots, all recycled reused items, except the mortar and grout (they are new).
Two new mosaic pots – all junk except the mortar and grout
Two new mosaic pots – all junk except the mortar and grout. The tesserae are from the thrift stores, the junk bins and from Building Value recycled, donated building supply in cincinnati.
red and white daisies, street art
red and white daisies, street art (no eggs made yet this year, thinking about it however)
This is a vectorized (and otherwise doctored) drawing that I made decades ago, knocked off the wall in a hurry to get three kids to the airport on time one morning. Glass never replaced, and just kind of a memory at this point. Still a fun image.
