MysticDNA is a maker of contemporary jewellery using a variety of materials including glass, stone, wood and anything else that I come across. I also repair/conserve vintage jewellery. If I come across a piece that is too badly damaged to be saved, I salvage as much as possible and use the components to make new pieces. My family call it hoarding, but I call it preservation - I guess its probably rogue magpie genes tangled up in the DNA strands...
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Here are just a few examples of what I've been us to in recent months...
This is my Chain of Colour necklace... I'm really proud of this piece as it became a real labour of love. The inspiration for it was an artist's colour wheel. I wanted to find a way of incorporating all of the primary and secondary colours without it coming out too messy and this was the result. I'd decided that if I did every other link a single colour and the alternating ones a combination of the colours on either side, then the result should be a relatively seamless changing of colours across the necklace. I think this piece took about 40 hours to complete, but I think it was welel worth the effort.
This necklace is imaginatively called Hearts of Stone (can you guess why?). Some years ago I came across a job lot of these stone hearts which had been individually strung on leather strips with a couple of beads. I've since been at a bit of a loss as to quite what to do with them. I was looking at them recently and playing around with them and this was the result. The hearts have been threaded onto three leather strips, two of which run across the front of the hearts and the third behind. The back one then pokes through the hole in the stone and over the front strips and essentially stitches the hearts together. The assorted beads then just work as spacers. Personally, I like the fastener in my pieces to be as interesting as the rest of the thing and very rarely use prefabricated clasps and such, so I used a sixth heart as a toggle to fasten the necklace with a bead that slides up to it to prevent it unlooping itself.
I love this necklace. Although it isn't light, it is wonderfully cool and is nice to wear on a hot summer's day. I have more of these hearts in different colours, so will probably make some more at some point, although I'll also try and come up with some other way of using them.
This little bracelet was inspired by a early summer border of flowers that I passed one day on the side of a dual carriageway. I was so taken by the way that the flowers shone out at the passing motorists. Essentially this piece is made from seed beads in a multitude of colours and is supplemented with purple, orange and cerise flower shaped sequins. The bracelet itself consists of a core of beads with spurs of beads sprouting from it. The final effect is this fringed riot of flowers. Bright and pretty - just as flowers should be!Once again, welcome to my Blog and I hope that you enjoy its contents.
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