With the blog world being awash with Valentine posts, I am finally (officially) starting my valentine series for this year. Starting from Today till February 15th, which as some of you might know is my second blogiversary, there will be posts and tutorials dedicated to Love, Romance, passion and ofcourse Valentines day.
Sometime back, I found a batch of keys on my front porch – very nondescript local aluminium ones. On enquiry I found out that the keys were useless as their lock was broken. I smelt a project coming up right away and picked two of those keys for a special makeover. I looked through my inspiration folders and pinterest pictures and finally decided to make something based on Romance and travel
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Instinctively I picked up the atlas and went to the legend and coordinates of the Indian Ocean and south India as that is where my heart truly is. I traced the key image, decoupaged it and painted it red to signify passion. The beaten copper flowers that you see were originally silver tone bead caps, which I flattened and cut apart and gave them a coat of copper.I resinated ( cold diamond glaze)everything to preserve them. I finally added some crystal chain and made a wire wrapped bail for it. The pendant was done!
Then came some wooded beads, gold spacers and viola the key to my heart necklace was done. the finished piece looked very surreal to me – one one hand it had a punk meets steampunk feel and other hand it reminded me of the Indian Thali (Thirumangalam – wedding necklace) because of the gold, stone and the coral colored beads – either way it reminded me of love
As a continuation of this necklace I made a key charm, with emphasis on Travel. I again picked out a map and added the beaten silver bead caps to it. A wire wrapped pearl and its was done. A perfect gift I say for honeymooners – with the map of their honeymoon destination/favourite place to remind them of all the love that travel could imbibe.
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So how did you like these? And to all 150 followers (yipee!!) Thanks a million and please do check out my Pinterest button on the side bar and at the end of this post. Do pin some images from JewelsofSayuri and spread the love…
Cheers
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