I have been dreaming about this necklace since I visited Evie and Beth
the wonderful little enameled kokopelli pendants they created.
Had to have one and I was so excited when it came in the mail.
I am a musician and majored in music playing the flute in college.
Kokopellis have special meaning to me the magic of music is part of their trickster nature.
I wanted to make a tiny flute
and
beads that express the Southwest to surround this little fellow with color.
Inspired by the black and lilac enamel colors
I added fire in my polymer clay beads, a mix of metallic red and gold
because I always think of kokopellis as playing around a camp fire at night.
If you look closely you see black burning logs,
eternity beads purposely uneven and rustic,
and
fibers woven in to suggest the clothing one may wear.
I wire wrapped the pendant to hang it in an antiqued copper odd shaped ring
and wired the spray of tubular beads below to imitate native american style jewelry.
I had enough related beads to also create a bracelet to match.
I have been inspired by the works of Stephanie HERE is her blog.
You will see how her use of fiber and unusual beads inspired this bracelet.
I even used some garden wire which comes wrapped in raffia to make the bead in the front of this picture.
I especially enjoyed making my donut beads you see one behind wire wrapped to the copper ring.
They all polished up really nicely so a total of two long days of labor is finally ready to share.
Enjoy this Labor Day Weekend!!
I am very happy with how this came out,
especially the color combination.
Thanks to Evie and Beth for the inspirational little guy!!
