Oldies but Goodies - Man up

When I saw the topic for this week's Oldies but Goodies Challenge at the Jewelry Artisans Community, I thought this one was not for me.
I don't know why, but a lot of us jewelry artisans seem to struggle with making something for men. That doesn't mean we don't know how to go bold and big which is what most of us probably connect with men's jewelry. It's just not "man" bold and big.
Was there really nothing to show? Of course not. Just give us a little time to dig and we'll find something after all as you can see here.

So, you guys out there, why don't you tell us what you like and give us some inspiration?

1 Jewelry Art by Dawn
2 Violetmoon's Corner
3 Cat's Wire
4 RioRita
5 Galadryl Design
6 The Crafty Chimp

First glimpse of Christmas

Sorry, but I happened to watch one of the Boston Legal Christmas episodes and it got me in the mood to put together this one of a kind set of Christmas ornaments part of which I had already made a while ago.

You wonder what the house has to do with it? In Germany when drawing a house like this one children say one syllable of this sentence with each line "Das ... ist ... das ... Haus ... vom ... Ni ... ko ... laus." which means that this is St. Nicholas' house.

I looked it up, it has 44 possible ways and is a problem from graph theory. Who would have thought?

All ornaments are crocheted wire tubes which have been shaped, attached in the right spots and flattened. This took me quite a while and quite a few Boston Legal episodes, I'm telling you! ;-)

You can find the set in my ArtFire studio now.