Summer break

How's it going?

I'm reappearing in the blog after a short summer break with chilly news: I've spent this last month in improve my creative arts and I've learned a lot crafting two veeery special custom pieces in .999 silver, a ring and an articulated pendant. I'm really proud of them! Shortly I'll post a pair of pictures so you can give me your opinion ^^

I also created a few new ooaks, some of them already available in my Etsy shop:

100% recycled necklace "Druid's bag" -UNAVAILABLE-

Spring break

How's it going?

Have you ever heard about "Spring Cleaning"? Well, *basically* that's what I've been doing during this last month...

I don't remember how it began (maybe when I was sitting in front of my laptop and I said to me thinking about it, I would remove this from here and put it on there, or when I looked through the window and I decided to make a new shelf to the balcony, I don't know) but the point is that almost without realizing I've been linking "small house changes"... and I finished reversing the entire house.

To sum up: I've dedicated little or nothing to crafting new ooaks.

So to liven up the blog while I catch the march of a thousand party demons again, I'm going to introduce briefly some of the pieces I've listed on Etsy:

"OwO" ring -UNAVAILABLE-

Impulse children, vol.2

How's it going?

Many times, although I have like a million of sketched designs and another million riped for the picking, I sit in front of my working table to craft... and I forget about sketches and everything: one piece here, another there and let's give imagination a push!

And although I would like to say "I'm going to focus on make this piece-to-be" and make it, the fact of haven't a predetermined route gives me a boundless creative freedom that often results in really interesting and original creations...

"Baroque" choker -SOLD-

Let's go!

How's it going?

Good news because today, finally, I return to my weekly blog posts! ^^

Yes, I know: this time my ususal winter lethargy has taken more than two months... But I haven't been on holidays! I've read, instructed myself, researched, learned new techniques and improved my knowledge :)

I also practiced a little with silver PMC (I've an important order and I'd like to get the highest details level) and I created a few new pieces to warm things up like my first belly piercing, "The Strange":

Piercing "The Strange" -SOLD-

'Ooaktumnal' bookmarks

How's it going?

A couple of years ago, although it seems to me an eternity, I created my first satin ribbon bookmarks: simple colored ribbons topped off by metal charms in the shape of a key, a tree, a skull...

But you know what I really love is to make unique designs... as this seven ooaktumnal bookmarks!

Ooaktumnal bookmarks -SOLD-

Boots harness for Ziad

How's it going?

I'm still making custom orders, but what I say... they're more like challenges!
If not, tell me why the hell I'm making boots harnesses...

Custom boot harness for Ziad

Another round of custom orders

How's it going?

There are two kind of pieces in Ooak Craft: those entirely created as I please, and custom orders.

Custom orders are ideas arisen from your minds that pass through my hands and become in unique pieces that only exist thanks to the both sides: you plant the seed and I try to grow it up my best :)


I've had a lot of orders through the years... First was from a workmate; later I did custom orders for friends, relatives, fellow artisans, even for Victoria Francés!

But there's still lots of custom pieces that I haven't showed you yet...

"Tarot card" earrings for Frederique Philie

Full dark, no stars

How's it going?

All artists are supposed to go through several stages along their lives... I don't know if I'm an artist, but I know the name of my current stage (because it's clear I'm going through a stage): "Full dark, no stars", like the Stephen King book.

It must be said, blame it on the onyx coloured patina for metal I bought about two months ago, that once you ink something you need to ink everything in sight...

"The shining city below the sea" Set -SOLD-

In the lurch

How's it going?

Some days ago I was going to take out of my creations' box a necklace that found a new owner and I realized I'm short of ooaks. Well, they go two at once!

Understand me: that's really cool, it means you like what I do! :D

But in the other side I take a look at my half empty box, the accumulated pieces on my desk, the accumulated ideas on my head, I remember the short space of time available to me... and I regret universe didn't give the chance to millipedes to rule planet Earth.
That is... I would have 375 pairs of arms right now! >_<

Well, where there is a will, there is a way, isn't it?
For there is nothing I most want that keep on inventing and learning every day, so here we go! :)

"Noche" necklace -SOLD-

The way forward is sometimes the way back

How's it going?

You can't always get it right, can you? It would be rare, very rare, doing it always the right way. We all make mistakes, we fail... But sometimes the option for fix our errors is given. That's where I want to go!

Everyday I spend part of my time in correcting and trying, fixing and learning. Because as a self-taught costume-jewelry maker, mistakes are part of my learning process: trial and error, it would say heuristics.

"Musa" earrings pieces, for example, were part of a necklace whose design never convinced me...

"Musa" earrings -SOLD-

And "No hay dos sin tres" necklace was formerly a bracelet!

"No hay dos sin tres" necklace -SOLD-

Now it's not lie to say they are ooakcrafts from top to bottom :)

As Wiseman said 'the way forward is sometimes the way back'... how right!

Corvus Corax

How's it going?

Ravens have traditionally been considered birds of ill omen due to its black feathers and shocking croaking; no wonder then that they've been associated symbolically since time immemorial with death and lost souls...

"Nevermore" necklace -SOLD-

"Lanoitidart"

How's it going?

Take a good look at the title of this post... What? No, I'm not out of my head yet. 
It's only a play on words: what's the opposite to "traditional"? "Lanoitidart"! >_<

You know how I like unusual and original creations... So when someone says "I love duck-billed platypus!" or "I want a Cthulhu on my wedding", it's virtually impossible to me to stop gears of imagination (that and some tea and sweets, pfff! I keep on going for a while!)

The design for this special commision, for instance, was showered by cinnamon tea and chocolate pie:

"Steampunkthuloide" choker for Yolanda Murcielagosa -OUT OF STOCK-

"Steampunkthuloide" earrings for Yolanda Murcielagosa -OUT OF STOCK-

Deep protection

How's it going?

These days, after passing the stand of the Undead dark club, I've dedicated myself to mend my messy work corner. And I say "messy" not because it's damaged, but because it seems that it has been destroyed by a sharknado: pieces around, commissions there, beads, sketches, half finished ooaks...

Like it's impossible no one clarifies this way, I leave you here a strange design to keep you busy decrypting it while I put this mess in order: the "Elder One" necklace.

"Elder One" necklace -SOLD-