Nesting Place

So what do the words "nesting place" mean to you? Have you found yours? That little safe place.... for nurturing, flourishing, .....a place where you can find your wings......a place to share...


The Etsy Metal Clay team is having a challenge for it's member to create a piece using hinges. I've done several jewelry pieces with hinges before, but many of the team haven't, so it's a good opportunity to try something new. Even though I've already made some hinges, I thought I'd join in...so this little piece "Nesting Place" is my challenge piece, showing a little songbird sitting on the perch of a birdhouse.

Here is the back, so you can see the hinge.


And like all good birdhouses, it does open up....


And if you peer inside ......you'll see three little eggs on a nest.


All the hinge challenge pieces will be shown on our etsy metal clay blog, so when that is up, I'll link through to it, so you can see lots of hinged jewelry!


Have a great evening in your nesting place.

Bird Street - birdhouse necklace and earrings set

I was recently asked to make some stud style earrings to match one of my birdhouse necklaces. I've done earrings in this style before - with two different birdhouses in the pair, but they had always been dangly earrings.

I love the look of them as studs however! A little house on your ear! And the three pieces together made me think of a little lane or street - and thus I named them Bird Street.

Houses for different sized birds...

Birdhouse necklaces

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, when I was making the birdhouse earrings, the first pair I made were quite large - too big and heavy for earrings - so I decided to carry on with them and make them into necklaces.


They have the same design as the earrings - one round house with a shingle roof and one square house.

Hmmmm. Guess I need to come up with names for them that aren't just "birdhouse".... Hmmm. How about "home tweet home"? Corny, I know :-D