Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Slow living - Silver clay workshop


Villa Järvelä photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com






My dear friend had her birthday party. We had so much fun! On Sunday we went to make some silver jewellery. She had organized a silver clay workshop for her friends at Villa Järvelä. What a lovely idea.

silver clay workshop  photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com


The most difficult is always to decide what to do...but there were plenty of books and plenty of this and that you can use when making your precious jewellery. So it wasn't too challenging.

silver clay workshop  photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com










We could also try to make some tests with modelling clay. That was a great. Each of us got 7g silver clay. It dries fast so you have to be quite quick.

silver clay workshop  photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com
The workshop teacher Jenny Lipponen had a lot of examples with her.

silver clay workshop  photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com








Here you can see some silver clay gear...I mean tools.

silver clay workshop  photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

Learning by doing. When we got our jewellery from ceramic kiln it was time to brush them. You could work with silver with different kind of tools. You could make glossy, semi-matte, matte or patina. Another decision...

Villa Järvelä workshop  photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com
Coffee and cake. Of course. With lake view.

silver clay workshop  photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

































We had great time working together...laughing together. This kind of days we have too few. We even had a little baby boy with us. He was so cute.

silver clay workshop  photo by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com






So here they are! The workshop took about 3 hours. Not so long time at all...but it was very easy-going and relaxing so it goes well with the concept of slow living...and I guess the jewellery wasn't the main point. It was more about friendship. Thank you Päivi and all the lovely ladies! Next time we have to go to sauna too!

xo
Kreetta

7 comments:

  1. so lovely, especially the textured droplets

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  2. How does the kiln work? Do you get the pieces out that fast? I've never heard about this technique, it looks fascinating. Lovely images, Kreetta! xx

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  3. @bc Thank you! I'm going to make earrings of them.

    @Gudy Thanks Gudy! The kiln was a little one...here's a link I found to show to you http://riograndeblog.com/2013/08/firebrick-kiln-or-fiber-kiln-discover-the-difference/ It was fun and you can make different kind of metals like gold and bronz...You have to try it!

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  4. I've never heard about silver clay before. Oh what a wonderful idea for the person doing the workshop and your friend for bringing you all together. Beautiful documentary Kretta. M xx

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  5. @Mel This was my first time with silver clay. I recommend. Nowadays we don't see each other too often so this was great!

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  6. Mulla vähän kädet kutisee, että pitäisi kokeilla uudelleen hopeasavea. Enpä olisi uskonut... ;)

    Oli kyllä kiva iltapäivä!

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  7. Moikka Laura!
    No niin jäi mullekin sellanen kutina, että vois kokeilla uudestaan! Vaikka olikin aika pipertämistä. Aika helppoa kuitenkin, varsinkin kun käyttää muotteja.

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