immortal, eternal, eclipse

*p/s ... a penny to anyone who can guess where the inspiration of my latest RustART pieces came from :) Lisa? Stephanie?

i don't have a lot of chance to go on outings nowadays becos i don't really want to leave baby Maia with mil in the house alone. it will be too taxing on the dear old lady, and baby Maia is not exactly a very, well ... demure preemie :) and of course she needs her mommy's milk every 3 hours or so. but when i do get a chance to go out, it's either to the craftstore or the hardware store, two of my most "favouritest" places!

a couple of weeks ago i managed to sneak a visit to the hardware store to have a looksy. i was looking for real huge nuts (not the ones you eat) and i found something called a flange nut. it's a really interesting nut (never thought i'll say that!) becos the nut sits on a platform kinda thingy ... anyway, i bought a few. didn't know what i wanted to do with them, only i knew i wanted to rust them. as it turns out, they actually make very nice bezels :)

these flange nuts were huge, so i wanted to make something with a stronger and darker connotation. i also rusted some washers together with the flanges and gave them a harder rust.

and with that ...

was born.

my idea of Immortal was to give it a heavy main necklace, gothic in nature, but i also wanted to add a kind of sexy "neckline" to it ... something that rest close to the jugular ... a lure ... for Edward ;)

doesn't it screams "Bite Me!"?

like i said i had a few flanges so i made another gothic-ie necklace in the same theme.

what is Immortal is also ...

normally i would use a 2 part resin to coat these but resin give out such a bad stench, it is not very advisable to use it around a baby. so i used a Ranger product called Glossy Accents and it works just as well minus the smell.

Eternal also spots a lethal-looking 2 inch vintage spike (O_O), brass gear and an AA quality ocean jasper set inside the flange bezel.

and finally, i thought it would be sort of cool to round these two up with an ...

Eclipse

i burnt bits from an old storybook and added it to the washer to make it look like thru time some bits of paper got caught on the rusty washer. (tho this bit's got glossy accents on it :) i also composed the gear off center and the flange in the center to symbolize an eclipse. embedded in the bezel is another beautiful ocean jasper.

overall, i'm quite happy with how these babes turned out ... i just wonder how many people have the same taste as i do ...


**pp/s ... dun forget i have a giveaway ending 27th feb ... to get to the link just look for it on my sidebar :)