A Few New Pieces and Then Off To LA...

I have a couple of new cuffs and a pendant - and that will be it until I return to Hawaii.
Thursday I am off to LA for a 4 month job....we get a week off for Thanksgiving and 3 weeks off for Christmas and then will finish up in January.  I'll be taking my Keith Lobue's "Steel Beauty" dvd's with me - in case my art muse starts to pester me.....
I have so many things to finish up/ fix up/clean up   that i have procrastinated about doing and now time is running out fast!
Here are the cuffs.   Boring boring boring...I am so tired of then -and I still have about 8 unfinished ones on the bench!

this one is made with iridescent beetle wings

  I had been wanting to make a bird skull for a long time.  I tried to cast my own chicken head, but it was very fragile with a lot of hollows... when i tried to close up some of the holey parts ... it broke.....
... then  i went to cast the mold from the broken chicken skull -but the bones got stuck in the silicone.  Oh well...
...so this skull was hand sculpted with bronze clay - one of a kind - no mold!

Bronze Skull 1 1/4" long, Bronze bail, Bronze clasp.  Chain is Vintage patinaed brass, 24"
I haven't decided whether to put them in my etsy shop or just drop them off at the gallery.....

Let me know if you'll be in LA when I am - maybe we can meet up!