YOJ Week 17 - Organically Yours

Sow a thought and reap an act
Sow an act and you reap a habit
Sow a habit and you reap a character
Sow a character and you reap a Destiny 
.... Charles Reade


I made these bronze and copper metal clay leaves for earrings but thought they complimented this agate leaf perfectly.

Year of the Jewelry - Week 10: Wabi Sabi

"Wabi sabi is the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete, the antithesis of our classical Western notion of beauty as something perfect, enduring, and monumental." -- Leonard Koren, author of "Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers"

This weeks YOJ challenge was exactly that - a challenge, to create a design that reflects the true connotations of Wabi Sabi.  However, I did it.  This week I took some time out from my looming and went back to the metal clays and finished working on a design I had started some time ago. 

To me the pendant is the epitome of imperfection whilst retaining beauty within, maintaining the very essence of wabi sabi.  I'll let you be the judge xo