Today I like to refer you to a post on the beautiful jewelry blog of Montserrat Lacomba. The post is about Karin Seufert and her plastic caps project.

Necklace made ​​of plastic caps by Karin Seufert. Please read the full story more here.

Thursday May 17, 2012 we are joining Buitengewoon Kunst op Nienoord in Leek The Netherlands. Its an Artist Fair where about 50 artists and designers will show their work.

Plus coming weekend (and the next) we, among many more craftspeople, artists and designers will participate in the yearly Open Atelier Route Opsterland.
For more info please click here and here please.

This sculpture is by Henk Vos. He will also show his work at Buitengewoon Kunst op Nienoord.

So now I’m putting together a collection of jewelry to take to the Fair on Thursday. It’s an outside affair in the beautiful garden belonging to Borg Nienoord. Lets hope the weather will be sort of decent!

This small silver brooch, with the semi precious gemstone Agate, will be among many other pieces of jewelry we are going to show Thursday at Buitengewoon Kunst op Nienoord.

Recently I was sorting through old images trying to figure out witch to publish in the new site when I came across these 2 pieces of jewelry. Both are made quite long ago and yet I still see them very clearly in my mind.

The pendant was made ​​from the root of an old swamp oak, very special. I still remember who purchased the pendant.

The necklace is sold through a gallery so I don’t know who bought it. The photo of the necklace is not very well, in real life the long necklace was spectacular …

I just placed our latest ring from the series “Flying Saucer Rings” in the online shop!

It’s a fairly large sterling silver ring with a beautiful purple amethyst in the middle set in a basel of 18 karate gold. If you like to know more about Deep Purple Ring please click here.

Crafs such as …

Burnishing technique, making metal smooth by hand with a special burnishing tool …

Weaving …

Watchmaking, on the photo a dial is fashioned

and Silversmithing … in the picture silversmith Hiroshi Suzuki at work raising or forging a silver bowl.

One starts with hammering on a circle of Sterling Silver so the silver raises, in between the hammering rounds the silver is heated by a flame to make it soft again. One bowl takes days of hammering.

My partner Jan Kerkstra and myself are besides Jewelry makers also Silversmiths. We do sterling silver pieces like candle holders, silver bekers and Christening spoons mostly made on order.
The Fries Museum located in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands carries 5 big silver pieces in their permanent collection, made by Jan and me .

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Gallery Terbeek, the location of our presentation is a gallery with a great ambiance. Our tables looked stunning in the large, beautiful space.

Therefore I had thought taking photos would be a piece of cake but it was not. For some reason the light in the gallery made ​​the pictures look dark and yellow. I hope these images still give you a bit of an impression … or else I recommend you’ll come to Beetsterzwaag coming weekend (April 28-29, 2012) and see our jewelry in real life! Click here for the correct information.

The homemade tables with our jewelry

Ceramics in Gallery Terbeek in Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands

Me in Gallery Terbeek

For more pictures please click here.

The exposition takes place April 21-22 and April 28-29, 2012 from 13.00-17.00 hours in Gallery Terbeek in Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands.

If you like to see a preview … please click over here to read the wonderful post Montserrat Lacomba wrote about our new line of brooches.

PS
Today I saw the first swallow … hooray… summer is on its way!

Last week we made a few more jewelry pieces. These pieces are the last ones we are making for the Jewelry Presentation we are having coming weekend. Two new brooches by my partner Jan Kerkstra of Atelier The Jewelry Story and the long necklace is a made by me.

Brooch, wood, gold, pearl

Brooch, pine gold, pearl

The necklace is made for a lady who wanted a really long necklace; something with red, maybe silver and she wanted to wear it on a dark blue dress … hope she likes it.

Like to join us at our coming exposition? Just click here

The weekend of April 21 and 22 and April 28 and 29 2012 we are showing our new series of Big Brooches, our latest rings and necklaces.

Invitations have been send out, a newsletter and press release are in the making, cheese and wine are ordered, our jewelry is labeled with petite hangtags and the 2 homemade tables are waiting in the barn.

The latest brooche Circles, silver and wood by Marion Pannekoek

Do you want to join us in this jewelry exposition?  You are very welcome, just sign up here and you will receive an invitation.

Only a few weeks ago the beautiful and very informative blog of Montserrat Lacomba had a post about Tore Svenssons latest work; his brooches. Today I like to show you some of his older work.

This very graphic necklace is made of steel. Not something you wear everyday, and maybe not something you wear ever. But I love Svensson’s approach to treating flat surfaces of geometric shapes. ( Photo via Klimt )

Tore Svensson only makes a few steel bowls a year. These bowls are raised- that is beaten with a hammer, into this shape, over a steel stake. It is a painstaking slow process.

For nearly two decades he has been making the same simple form: the few bowls he makes each season hardly vary in size and form from their predecessors.

You can find more info and photos on Tore Svenssons site.