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Patrick Burt

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This amazing occasional-wear ring deserves your attention.

Patrick Burt: This was an experiment which I felt failed and was therefore not reproduced. Now, when I state that the design failed I mean that in the sense of wearability. The look of the ring, I believe, is terrific but I know that it won’t stand up to the rigors of daily wear.

Titanium is colored by an electrical process which builds up an ultra thin skin of Titanium dioxide on the surface of the metal. This coating is completely clear and just molecules thick. The clarity and thickness sets up a diffraction of light which appears to us as color. The result, as you can see, is wonderful but the color is just molecules thick and quite vulnerable to the wear that hands dish out.

Even so, isn’t it gorgeous?

AimeezArtz

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AimeezArtz: I live in Cloverdale, Canada with my husband and my little Jack Russel, Mini. I have been creating mosaics, big and small for seven years. My work has been in shops as close as Langley, BC and as far as New Mexico.

Every mosaic is different, that’s why I’m drawn to this medium. I never get tired of the beauty and complexity and I’m always trying quirky new things to bring light and movement into an ancient art form.

Rosella Resin

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Rosella Resin: eco resin rings and bangles

The story: We are two sisters, 10 years apart, who love making wearable works of art. While living in Melbourne, Australia, Jessica took a mouldmaking and casting course and around the same time developed a serious feather-collecting habit. Upon returning to Canada, she taught Gwynne everything she knew. With Gwynne’s superior eye for design Rosella Resin was born. The company is named after the beautiful Australian parrot.

The concept: Nature is the world’s greatest designer. Rosella jewelry showcases the most beautiful designs found in nature, including feathers, shells, and plants.

Rosella Resin is proudly made using Entropy Resin’s eco performance resin, certified by the USDA as a biobased product. Unlike most petroleum-based resins, this eco resin incorporates bio-derived materials such as pine oils derived from waste-streams of other manufacturing products.

The transparent resin transforms delicate and ephemeral natural artifacts into beautifully preserved, wearable, durable jewelry. Resin also has a magnifying property, highlighting every wispy strand of a feather, every grain of wheat or spiral in a shell.

We also love using metallic silver, gold and copper leaf flakes with a wide variety of colours. Within faceted shapes of the rings and bangles, the resin mimics earthen minerals and gemstones such as tiger eye, turquoise, lapis lazuli, graphite, marble.

Each piece is unique. When you wear our jewelry you can be assured you are wearing a one-of-a-kind item that no one else has.

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Art from bottles

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MintyFreshFusions: It’s been cut by hand, evened out with my glass grinder, and hand sanded just enough to make the rough edge smooth enough to have no jagged edges. I want to leave a few in their raw form, and as soon as I have a few more I’ll also be putting some in the kiln to fire polish the sanded edge and make it shiny-smooth like the other side.

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Since these are not kiln fired they’re a bit greener, {in the eco sense, not the color!} which may appeal to some people more, it’s how I wear the one I kept.

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