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I'v been planing to write  about Veerle Maes and nevousinstallezpas  for ages now, but whenever i visit her blog to pick the items i want to share with you, I just get so overwhelmed and dont know what to pick. Its like visiting a fantasy land.
Veerle is a true crochet artist, crochet with yarn can easily  look common , but she  manages to take this old technique and use it in making of real pieces of art. From what i read her inspiration is nature and Africa , you dont need to know it to get the vibes. The structures together with the colors talk for themselves.

The forms are clean , with wonderful proportions and marvelous color schemes.

I found a nice phrase on her site saying something like :
jewelery are not to show what you own but to show WHO you are!

I warmly recommend to visit her site and blog and get inspired :) 
and of course also her etsy shop 

I occasional get asked what exactly is gold filled and what is the difference between gold filled and gold plating.Gold filled is made of a solid layer of gold bonded with heat and pressure onto a base metal, occasionally brass but in some cases silver. The gold part can be any type of gold in […]

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I occasional get asked what exactly is gold filled and what is the difference between gold filled and gold plating.
Gold filled is made of a solid layer of gold bonded with heat and pressure onto a base metal, occasionally brass but in some cases silver. The gold part can be any type of gold in weight and in color, although the most common ones are yellow and rose 14k.
If you are looking to compare it with gold plating its a bit tricky since the gold layer on gold plated jewelry depends on the manufacturer and varies,  a rough figure is that Gold-filled items are 50 to 100,000 times thicker than regular gold plating.

This is of course just the tip of the iceberg , if you are looking for more in depth explanations you are welcome to read this detailed article : http://www.artisanplating.com/articles/goldfilled.html

From time to time I get asked if I know Ruth Asawa work since my designs resembles the flare and airiness of her work, only in  a much different scale ...  this of course sent me googling her to see her work.
I didnt know her work but was so amazed from what I saw, she makes large to huge wire works, where the transparency of the meshes give brilliant results, the objects look  floating.
The technique in which she work seems quite different from mine, if I'm not mistaken its more like viking knitting where you sort of  weave the wires (which are thicker) rather then knit it.


"I have made doing art part of my life. Art is doing. There is either doing or talking about it. Art deals direclty with life. After it is done, someone comes along to write about it; then someone comes along to exhibit it [...]. The only step that is truly real is the first step. The making of the object. This is the step that children should be involved with completely. This involvement helps them to learn their capabilities and limitations. It is learning by making."  Ruth Asawa, 1970.
 enjoy a taste of her marvelous work :