Creationlily: From Creating Music To Jewelry Creations

I am a long time musician: a composer, pianist and music educator.  I've always loved being involved in some sort of creative sphere, and believe that we can have a multitude of outlets for creative energy.  

Over the years I've dabbled in painting and drawing as well and very much enjoy charcoal pencil drawing.  Mostly, I just love working with my hands.  

As a little backdrop about my family - our family has been moving around for the past few years through the Air Force for my husband's job.  

Our most recent move has been to Florida, where I have been inspired, being near the beach, to create beach/resort themed pieces,  

Through this, I have been going with the flow of these moves: trying to find teaching positions, piano lessons and performing.  Each time, seems like I am having to start from scratch, in a way.  

This past summer, our family went to a week long summer camp, where I had the opportunity to participate in a jewelry making workshop, and got hooked; it was as quick and simple as that.  

I told myself that when we get back home, I would start to get into making jewelry.  And so I did - in a major way.  I just couldn't stop! Now look what happened, I had to go and open up an Etsy shop!  

I still, of course do music, but I so love my passion for making vibrant Bohemian, and ethnically inspired artistic pieces.  It is such a wonderful means of creativity and self expression.  

I'm delighted and honored to present these hand crafted jewelry creations.  I have had the best time putting this little shop together, fine tuning (musical pun intended) my craft with care and with love.  

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Musical Stool

I had an old wooden stool that I had been wanting to repurpose as a creative display piece. I painted it white and decoupaged the top square with copies of one of my old concert band compositions.  I cut up a couple of pages into different sizes and shapes and added decoupage glue sealer on top. I had a blast transforming it!

 

Seahorse

 

Calla's Caress

Calla's Caress is a mixed media drawing.  I used graphite pencils, colored pencils and pastels.  I drew the piece initially in graphite pencil, then added color with colored pencils and lastly, I completed the wall and a few touches in pastels. Here are some of the developmental stages of the piece, followed by the completed piece, once again.

Enjoy!

Sound Reflections

I created this drawing with a combination of graphite and colored pencils. 
Here are a few of the stages of the evolution of my drawing, followed by the
completed drawing again - enjoy!

Jewellspiration at Camp Yofi

Last week at a family summer camp for Jewish autism families, I had a wonderful opportunity to get a little creative.  It was on an evening of some respite time for myself, along with some of the other autism moms.  It is absolutely one of the best perks of Camp Yofi at Ramah Darom in Clayton GA.  This precious time to connect with others, relax and recharge; it's nothing short of golden.

In the first photo bellow: I made a set of necklace and earrings with the hamsa symbol of the hand.  The hamsas are in a copper tone (it's hard to see in the photo).  

Here's a little overview about the hamsa symbol from Wikipedia:

"The hamsa (Arabic: خمسة‎ khamsah, also romanized khamsa, meaning lit. "five") is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and commonly used in jewelry and wall hangings.^[1][2] Depicting the open right hand, an image recognized and used as a sign of protection in many societies throughout history, the hamsa is believed to provide defense against the evil eye. The symbol predates Judaism, Christianity and Islam.^{[citation needed]} In Islam, it is also known as the hand of Fatima, so named to commemorate Muhammad's daughter Fatima Zahra (c. 605 or 615^[3] – 633). Levantine Christians call it the hand of Mary, for the Virgin Mary. Jews refer to it as the hand of Miriam in remembrance of the biblical Miriam, sister of Moses and Aaron".

In this second photo: I made a set of necklace and a bracelet.  The pendant of the necklace has a silver hamsa with an attachment of a star of David.  I also made an interchangeable pendant (on the bottom of the photo) of a vintage key and lock, a gift for my daughter.  I made her another interchangeable pendant that isn't captured in this photo, of a heart and star of David.  She wore it today for the first time, as her first choice.  It was very sweet!

I realized while making the jewellery, just how much I was enjoying myself.  It felt like a very similar rush that I experience from drawing or playing the piano.  Therefore, I plan on making many more pieces, as a way of unwinding and finding additional outlets for creative energy.  I can't wait to go get some tools and beads for the new pieces.  Thank you Camp Yofi, for putting a sparkle in my week!

The Kingfisher Bird

I saw a photo of this beautiful Rufous-Backed Kingfisher bird sitting on a branch and had to draw it this week.  This drawing was done in colored pencils.  I added a colorful shadow to its silhouette to add more depth and three diagonal sun rays to build in dimension.  After Tuneful Nectar, my colored pencil drawing of a Humming Bird, I thought of doing another bird drawing as a companion.  I hung up the first one in my daughter's room.  I asked her if she would like to have another picture of a bird and she was excited about the idea, so the Kingfisher will accompany the Humming Bird on the same wall.

Here are a couple of earlier sketches followed by the completed drawing again.

The completed drawing: