More Clay in Print: Heather Powers' Jewelry Designs from Nature

Have you seen Heather Powers' new book??  It is wonderful.  And best of all it includes the work of  many Beads of Clay artists.

The cover necklace features a handmade ceramic pendant by SeaUrchin, ceramic rounds by Elaine Ray and Gaea.

Heather's focus in the book is artist's beads.  Beads-of-Clay is well represented as seen in  this list of BOC artists included in the book

Chinook Jewelry

Diane Hawkey

Earthenwood Studio (one of the Founders BOC)

Elaine Ray

Gaea

LisaPetersArt

Mary Harding

seaurchin

 You can  purchase Heather Powers book at Amazon.com or Ornamentea and read my 5 star review of the book on Amazon here.

Tool Talk Thursday: Silks for Color Inspiration and Design

Fairy Silk Ribbon  Bundle from MarshaNealStudio on Etsy

I am feeling the need for color since the first hint of Fall has been encroaching on our summer of warmth.  The trees are not so green anymore and the grasses are getting brown.  For ceramic pendants and beads, the colorful silks available today for designing jewelry are a quick and wonderful color inspiration now that our flower gardens are fading.

I just love all the colors in the Fairy Silk Bundle in the picture above available from MarshaNeal Studio Etsy Shop.

Now I am going to show you some Beads of Clay artist pendants combined with silk ties--all of these pendants are from my own personal collection but you can find more of each artist's work at the link by their name.

See how beautiful this ceramic pendant by Marlas Mud looks with this deep rose and multi color silk tie.

And this ceramic pendant from Yolandas Clay

Mary Harding

 Dandelion Bloom pendant

Above are some more color combos in Silk to inspire your Fall and Winter color picks.  These are available at Lima Beads. 

And if you are wanting to make color picks that go along with the Pantone color predictions or use a photo from your camera  you can use this handy iphone/ipad app to help you out.

There is an updated version of this in the Apple App store and it works best on the newer iphones with OS 4.0  and the ipad.  I have not tried this myself. There is also an Android version of this as well in the Android Market.

Hope all these beautiful color combos help you feel better about the change of season.  It is the hardest transition for me all year, so I know I needed this color boost.

Thank you for stopping by.