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-

Cyber-recycling

How's it going?

I like to recycle.
I mentioned it the day I inaugurated this blog and I'm still thinking the same!

Until now and always I was able, I've recycled broken or discarded costume jewelry pieces, leather scraps and many other "useless" materials, transforming them into new and original ooakcrafts like my "Hardware" necklace, the "Goddess" belt or this "Noche" set.

This time I've taken another step and I've set myself to reuse circuits, optical readers, led lights, chips and all kinds of electronic waste in order to create the industrial style cyber-recycled costume jewelry collection...

// CYCLE 2.0 //

-SOLD-

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

Just dies who pass into oblivion

How's it going?

Yesterday I set aside the pending orders for a few hours, I immersed in myself and I got carried away by the "art of impulse": to create what springs, what emerges, without planning anything.

This time, the "Remember" necklace, a simple but powerful piece that needs no explanation.

Enjoy introspection.

"Remember" necklace -SOLD-

Brief but intense

How's it going?

Today I would like to avoid fly off on a tangent and make this a brief but intense post, like my new industrial style necklace "Hardwear":

"Hardwear" necklace -SOLD-

Tight necklace with chains, metal worms and bud-like spikes.
Made with 90% recycled materials ^^

THE END. 
 

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-

Return of the ooak

How's it going?

As every winter, I fell in a kind of creative lethargy...

But I wasn't really absent: during these months I've dedicated myself to tweak the design of the blog, I updated the already published tutorials, I took on some large orders and I've been turning over a couple of ideas I would start shortly.

I also had time to sit down and play around... by the moment a new ooak, I just wake up! ;)

"Thou hast no power against me," said Cuchulain.
"I have power indeed," said the woman;

"it is at the guarding of thy death that I am; and I shall be," said she.

~ 'Táin Bó Regamna', Ulster cycle ~

"The Morrigan" necklace -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-

November through the Looking-Glass

How's it going?

I've been away from Ooak☥Craft for almost half a month... Not for nothing, but by all! >_<
I've been so busy (more than usual, I assure you) than I haven't seen at no time the opportunity to sit down and write...

Between the work that feeds me (it's paid economic but not intellectually), the orders and the dozens of projects I have ongoing, I managed to exhaust myself to the point where I need to pseudo-resting for a few days and postpone for some time the ooakrafts inventing.

But what I'm saying... postpone?

"Through the Looking-Glass" set -UNAVAILABLE-

Imitating

How's it going?

Do you remember the reptilian torcs I made some time ago? They had a sprig of Araucaria excelsa, also called 'Norfolk pine' as basis (By the way, I don't exclude the possibility of making similar designs in short...)

Well then, two years later I achieved to replicate in metal something like the original texture!:

"Norfolk" set -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-

A cauldron of Forest

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I've always been fascinated by pine cones. And ivy, and dragonflies, and moss...

Maybe I fell in a cauldron of forest when I was a little girl... Or maybe the everlasting holidays of my childhood in my mother's village (in northern Spain, by the High Aragon) influenced me more than I can imagine.

I remember sunny mornings playing with branches-made bows on the stone town square; noons under the shade of old trees, "fishing" young trouts by hand on the shores of an icy river; evenings behind the nonexistent walls of a forgotten cemetery, reconquered by ears of wheat; nights strolling around lost paths full of wild blackberries, cattails and frogs...

Anyway, as I said, pine cones rocks!
Hence "Wood's gift", a simple necklace in bronze tone with a pine cone as a pendant:

"Wood's gift" necklace -SOLD-

What better way to worship the woods? ^^
 

"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-

Lady of the Lake

How's it going?

Today's piece it's inspired in one of those "myths and legends" we've all ever heard of: the Lady of the Lake.

"Lady of the Lake" necklace -SOLD-

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-

New creations, vol.15

How's it going?

This weekend we go for a Cuélebre concert with crafts stand in Barcelona... As you can guess, between the selection of pieces to carry I must do, the orders, the international orders and my other costume jewelry issues I've no time to breathe U_U

And is that I'm always adding tasks to my long to-do list: making photos of all remaining ooaks I want to show you, renewing my cracked displays, changing the labels for the new ones with the current logo, doing more ooaks...

But as everything can't be done at same time, I'll start briefly shortening the list of "not shown ooaks" with a new creation: the "Aurora (boreal)" rosary (this name has a dual meaning in spanish when "Dawn rosary", a Christian term, becomes "Northern lights rosary", a pagan term).

"Aurora (boreal)" rosary -SOLD-

Custom orders everywhere

How's it going?

This week I'm late in writting this post because I was finishing lots of custom orders that I have been accumulating... Not because of laziness, but in some cases for lack of pieces and as always by lack of time U_U

Although I still have several commisions to finish, I have finished a Cernunnos necklace, another gears necklace and "redesigned" a pair of mother-of-pearl earrings... Not bad for not having had time, right? XP

 

"Cernunnos" necklace -CUSTOM ORDER-