Jewelry Design from Nature challenge - the results

The day is finally here! If you remember, Heather Powers from Humblebeads sent us a focal, a picture, and a poem - all inspired by nature; in return we were asked to create a piece inspired by the picture and poem, using the focal and whatever else would strike our fancy.

My poem and picture were of daffodils. Little did Heather know I love daffodils, along with all other spring flowers - more than other flowers. Probably because they come after the long cold winter... probably because our gardens back where I grew up were full of daffodils... probably because they are such delicate and strong flowers at the same time.

I am not very fond of yellow - but for daffodils I make an exception: I love their colour :)

So here I was, with the most delicate and beautiful pendant I've ever seen - painted by hand, with this lovely daffodil on a azure sky, in the green grass...

I had this idea at first... but it meant some extra time I didn't have on my hands... so I settled on a variation of that idea. Beads started to take shape on my desk:

yellow, for the daffodils:

 blue, for the sky:

 green, for the grass:

more blue (just because I am in love with this shade and with making my own clasp :) this time an eye for the hook was born too; of course both beaded):

The necklace went through 2 length variations until I was happy with it - and I wore it a few times already, it wears beautifully, there is something special about a beaded chain, that's for sure!

Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed--and gazed--but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils. 

by William Wordsworth

I hope you enjoyed my interpretation of Nature :)

Please make sure to visit the other artists' participating:

The Cerebral Dilettante (Keirsten Giles)

All Pretty Things (Alicia Marinache) <-- you are here

Sundown Bead Designs (Shelby Foxwell)

Inspired Adornments (Lisa Cone)

It's All About Creating (Marlene Brady)

The Beading Yogini (Cece Cormier)

Amy of Amy Beads

Amazing Designs (Marlene Cupo)

Sharon's Jewelry Garden (Sharon Palac)