I saw this old ivory colored button in a shop that specialized in etching images on old buttons. The shop owner used a laser engraver to etch this magnificent image onto the ivory background. I bought the button because I admire the nobility of a…
Green Aventurine Gemstones on Ornate Silver Dangle Earrings Sterling Wires
I made these earrings of silver triangles with translucent green aventurine tube beads dangling from them in a candelabra arrangement. These three aventurine translucent tube beads that dangle from each ornate silver plated triangle are a cool note to cool down a warm colored summer…
Green, Lilac, Peach, White, Silver Beaded Necklace
I made this chunky polymer clay, gemstone and silver beaded necklace before I knew that I would be launching a new line of products under my trade name Polly Ceramica. At the time I made it, I just wanted to make something novel to my…
HandCrafted Hand Forged Bronze Pendant Original, Quartz Crystal Center
This is my Light in the Window creation. It is my own design so you, my buyer, can follow the making of the piece of jewelry in my story here. This is how I came to make a pendant in this shape, material and pattern….
Designer Handmade Signed Polly_Ceramica Picture Panel Beaded Necklace
This necklace is made of beads in bold patterns in black, brown, burnt orange and white hand sculpted polymer clay beads and pendant with rich orange amber resin, black lava rock and white bone accent beads. The metal bead caps, the toggle fastener and the…
Charm Bracelet Handcrafted Bronze Band and Brown Chalcedony Beads
My handcrafted bracelet of bronze, copper colored polymer clay, antiqued brass charm spacers, a convenient, sturdy lobster claw fastener and 16 banded brown chalcedony beads are all held together with non-tarnish enameled copper wires and nylon coated heavy duty stainless steel beading wire. Now that…
Hand Forged Bronze Paisley Pendant
As to the making of this bronze pendant. First of all, I wanted to make a bronze pendant in one of my favorite shapes; that is the paisley. I am fascinated by bronze because of my studies of the Bronze Age in Central Asia. The…
Handmade Enameled Scarlet and Copper Leaf Pendant, Signed Necklace
When I received this blazing scarlet enameled copper leaf pendant from the artisan who made it, I knew I would have to design and make my art clay beads to be worthy of decorating such a piece. The leaf pendant is large enough to be…
Polly Ceramica Asks What is Progress?
Polly Ceramica Hand Sculpted Jewelry with a fashion flair and a folk art flavor
Bronze Impression on Jade Leaf Pendant on Nephrite Jade Bead Necklace
The bronze circle that you see overlying the hand carved translucent jade leaf I made from scratch just as we might make a cookie with a face on it for the holidays. The comparison is appropriate, because the bronze ‘cookie’ started as a pinch of…
Bronze Impression on Jade Leaf Pendant on Nephrite Jade Bead Necklace
The bronze circle that you see overlying the hand carved translucent jade leaf I made from scratch just as we might make a cookie with a face on it for the holidays. The comparison is appropriate, because the bronze ‘cookie’ started as a pinch of…