Wendy Van Camp wearing the Ocean Charm Necklace
I’m pleased to announce that two of my collaborative charm necklace projects were accepted by Belle Armorie for publication in their September/October 2007 issue. Belle Armorie is a national magazine featuring mixed media art to wear. Both necklaces can be seen in the magazine, along with a brief statement about each one by the coordinator of the project.
The first necklace was coordinated by my friend Cyndi Lavin, who has many published credits to her name and is the writer of the blog Bead Arts. I’ve known Cyndi for many years and was pleased to be asked to join “A Charmed Life” two years ago in order to create a necklace to be sold and the proceeds donated to cancer research. We choose ocean colors as our theme and tied all the different charms together via sterling metal. When I wore this necklace to my husband’s college reunion last year, everywhere I went people stopped me in the street in order to touch the charms on the necklace and ask about the story behind it. The “Ocean Necklace” will be auctioned on eBay sometime in September and I will post an announcement here.
Jewelry Haven Copper Charm Necklace
The second collaborative charm necklace I participated in was coordinated by Lea Avroch, a wonderful lampwork artist that I met via a jewelry making email list called Jewelry Haven. The Haven is home to a few hundred jewelry artists that talk about life, the universe and jewelry. They are a great bunch of ladies and I’m pleased to be a part of the membership. This second necklace is very different from the first. We used copper, sterling and brass to create a handmade chain and the charms are everything from lampwork leaves, to my copper wired leaf forms to interesting metal leaves.re in this blog when it is available.
