I’ve started listing my new work in my jewelry shops, so I thought I’d give you a bit of a peek here.

My favourite new piece from my handmade jewellery range is this damask pendant, inspired by a detail in a highly decorative damask pattern. The pendant has another damask pattern etched into its surface. It’s made from sterling silver, which has been heated to form a white silver oxide in the etched areas, while the raised areas have been sanded back to leave a shiny silver finish.

I have created a version of the damask pendant which hangs on black natural silk thread. I have also made a version suspended on a fine sterling silver chain, which I’m yet to list for sale.

After cutting out the damask pattern I loved the silver shapes I was left with and decided they’d make a perfect pair of earrings. So here are the matching damask earrings.

This small and simple sterling silver pendant also has a pattern etched into the surface, this time a detail leaf pattern. Again I’ve used the technique of building up silver oxide on the surface and sanding back the raised areas to create a shiny silver contrast.

The etched leaves pendant has been domed slightly to give it a more organic shape and is suspended on brown natural silk thread. I also have an etched leaves pendant on green silk thread.

To match the pendant, I created these etched leaves earrings using the same techniques above. These are post earrings which are entirely made from sterling silver.

These strawberry earrings are the result of a fun experiment after making some flower shapes in sterling silver and then trying to figure out how I was going to make use of them. I put them together with these large Czech glass beads and made a strawberry!

And here are the flower shapes again! This time in the guise of three pendants suspended on a strand of lovely rich purple natural silk thread. There is one larger flower with two smaller versions. Each has been cut out by hand and then domed.

You can find the five petal flowers neckace on purple silk in my Mintd shop. There is also a flowers necklace on black silk in my Etsy shop.

As you can probably see, I’ve made quite a few changes in the way I’m photographing my work, in large part brought about by getting a much smaller light tent, meaning my lighting is a lot closer to my work. I’ve also been experimenting with backgrounds to give a bit more depth to the images. Let me know what you think.

You can see more images of the above new handmade jewelry and more on Flickr.