Short story of a honeybee silver necklace

Bees and honey take me right to childhood memories. We used to spend summers in the country, in Provincia de Buenos Aires, (Rawson for those of you who are familiar with the area) My great uncle owned an apiary and sold honey and other bee derived products. He was a doctor with a profound knowledge of the almost miraculous effects that honey has on good health. He sold the honey squeezed in two or three layers of plastic bags, every package had a four page flyer with sweet recipes showing how to replace sugar with honey in delicious desserts and cakes, quite a few interesting ways to solve coughs, colds and such with bee elixir, and some knowledgeable quotes of great men and old sages. Of course the honey was of the ones that harden because it was absolutely pure.

I will never forget the dense smell of the warehouse, the thick sticky air, the honey, the propolis, the endless buzzing of the bees. I was too little to investigate further at that time, but I kept forever the love and respect for the bees, the honey and everything related to this wonder of nature. When Roxana from Illuminated Perfume suggested to our Artisans Gallery Team to create special items honoring bees, to blog it forward creating a chain of bee postings, and thus creating awareness of the fact that bees are endangered, I didn't have a second of a doubt.

This is the necklace I humbly created specially for this challenge, and some pictures of the steps of the process.

1 and 2 : Soldering the rings for the beehive, and the honeybee.

3 and 4 : Oxidizing parts of the body and wings for contrast, tumbler and ready.


These are many of the artists and artisans that participated in the bee project:
kathi rousell, seapinks, sewnNatural, glazedover, masaoms, polestar, knotoriginal, jealousydesign, twoknit, dragonhouseofyuen, illuminatedperfum

and these...moonovermaize, quercussilver, decoratethediva, sarahjohnafana, furiousdreams, blueterracotta, markhed, ixela, staroftheeast, pipinghotpapers, peylu


and these...justcharming, thejoyofcolor, lynncardwellpottery, terminy, threebluebee, oneclaybead, bluebicicletta, merritthyde, lulubugjewelry, sofino, slinkymalinkicat

As we are blogs bound together by this theme, check out Roxana's journal post from yesterday and don't forget to check tomorrow's post by Victoria at Furious Dreams.

Enjoy!

Music among us!!!

On Saturday, April 24th, the Opera Company of Philadelphia teamed up with the Reading Terminal Market Italian Festival for a large-scale "Flash Opera" event! Over 30 members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and principal cast members of LA TRAVIATA performed the famed "Brindisi" in the aisles of Reading Terminal Market, entertaining hundreds of Philadelphians, and proving that the perfect accompaniment for all things Italian is a little Verdi! The Opera Company sincerely thanks members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and cast for generously volunteering their time and talents... BRAVI TUTTI!!

Honeybee Silver Necklace

I specially created this honeybee sterling silver necklace as part of the Bee Up-Blog it Forward Artisans Gallery Team project. We start June 24th, don't miss it, it's going to be a fantastic daily journey from blog to blog following the way of the bees. I will post here the 24th when we start, and then show how I made this necklace on July 5th.

Cybele Silver Necklace

Cybele is the roman goddess of Earth also associated with nature and fertility, very feminine!

I just finished this Cybele necklace and I'm happy with the outcome. I soldered the discs and then attached the dangling knots. I love the sinuous swirly movement it has, it's quite sensual.

EsetsyTeam challenge: Games we played in our childhoods

This was a great idea that came up in Esetsy team. It's a homage and remembrance. Images of hoola hoola, hopscotch, "el elastico" (wonderful game played with a long elastic band), hide and seek and tags comes to my mind with a smile. I decided to "play" rayuela, hopscotch and this is the finished necklace.

Experimenting

Experimenting with gif for Lillyella's blog

Flapper

I made these super long necklace with my new onyx beads I posted before, I named it Flapper

Go ESetsy!

WoW! I am so lucky to be part of team Esetsy
Really creative and fun is the work done by the girls behind Madeofjacinta and MissBirdfor the Spotlight at The Storque. Check it out!!!

By customer's request, I'm making and listing many of my pieces in shiny silver! I love them too...!

Thank you Ric!!! They are beautiful...!!!