Etsy Shop for ardent1

Seashell Ring

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:25:00 -0500

$75.00
I picked up this shell on a beach in Sarasota Florida when I was 7 or 8 years old--

Size 5.5, height is .5 ins or 1.5 cm

Special Order for Angelica

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:38:38 -0500

$250.00
rings

Root Earrings

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:03:33 -0500

$100.00
2.75 ins. in length

I pulled up roots near my best friend's house in Paris, glued them together and cast them into silver and gold--

Price is for silver, gold is more expensive--

Book--Installations and Self Portraits

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:28:09 -0500

$50.00
This is a book that I self published in 2004--
It has 40 photo, 3 essays (including one written by me) and is about 100 pages long--
It's 12 x 13 inches and hardcover, a coffee table book--
You can preview it here--
http://www.anneardenmcdonald.com/noflash/essays/book.html

Fern lace ring

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:53:19 -0500

$75.00
I picked the top of a fern, pressed it into a wax band, and cast it--
It came out with such delicate detail, like lace--
Sizes 7.5, 8.75, 11.75
.5 inches tall at the tallest--

Dead Mouse Mousepad

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:05:18 -0500

$20.00
Silhouette of a dead mouse--
Background comes in pink, baby blue and yellow--
9.25 inches by 7.75 inches, non-slip backing--

Swallow Necklace--

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:25:42 -0500

$100.00
This is the seal I used to use to seal my letters, stamped into wax and cast--
The chain length is about 16 inches--

Little House Ring

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:25:42 -0500

$75.00
size 7, 7.75, 9.5 height is 1.2 cm

When I was evicted from my loft, I would close my eyes at night and draw pictures of little houses, and when I opened my eyes the drawings were always surprising, you can see them on my website, it was as if they were tiny prayers for a home, this ring is an homage to that time—

Book--Installations and Self Portraits

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:20:24 -0500

Hand in sky ring

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:35:11 -0500

$75.00
size 9
This is a drawing in dots of a hand coming down out of the sky to help you--

Double Spiral Ring

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:40:55 -0500

$75.00
Size 7
This is a spiral that can be seen on the inside and the outside of the ring--
The negative space is on the face side, and the shell is on the finger side--

Teeth Ring

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:35:21 -0500

$75.00
Tiny animal teeth cast into silver or gold--
size 7, or size 10, height is 1.2 cm or 5/8 in.
Price is for silver, gold available by request--

Seahorse Ring

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:43:58 -0500

$75.00
Two little sea horses, captured in silver--
The one flying on the band is a size 10, or a size 14--
The one curled over is a size 6.75, or a size 8.75--

Gothic Lace Ring, size 7, 7.5, 10

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:43:24 -0500

$75.00
A piece of Victorian lace made into rings--
Height 5/8 inch, or 1.5 cm.--

Budding Branch Earrings

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:33:52 -0500

$100.00
I made these as a celebration of Spring--
They are made from twigs that are just beginning to go into bud--
They are 3.5 inches long--

Bird Stamp Ring

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:49:56 -0500

$75.00
sizes 3.5, 5, 7.5, 8, 9, 9.5, 10, 10.5, 11-- height is 1.7 cm for medium sizes--

This is one of my favorites—birds and flying have always been a metaphor for freedom for me—I feel a lot of tension living in a body that has limitations and yet has a mind that is free to dream—

What is shown here is 3 sizes of the same ring--
The blue is the smallest, the white background is a medium, and the lavender is a large--

AnneArdenMcdonald.com to see more--

Custom Jewelry--

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:48:48 -0500

$125.00
Usually this is a ring that I make in a size that's not available yet--
Or a ring that I agree to make for you or with you--
Or a pair of earrings, or a necklace, or a pair of cufflinks--
But those are more rare--

Broken Spiral Ring

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:20:38 -0500

$75.00
I am attracted to spirals—the shape, the movement, and the science—the golden mean, Fibonacci, etc.

Size 8, height is 1.5 cm or 5/8 in.

Bumpy Spiral Ring

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:20:38 -0500

$75.00
I am attracted to spirals—the shape, the movement, and the science—the golden mean, Fibonacci, etc.

Size 5, 8.5 height is 1.2 cm or ½ in.

Daisy Lace Ring

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:20:37 -0500

$75.00
This is cast from some 1960s trim that would have been sewn onto a dress--

Size 6.75, height is .5 ins or 1 cm. tall

Void Ring

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:20:37 -0500

$75.00
size 7, height is 1.5 cm

I have a rock on my altar that I found out in Shiprock, New Mexico, it has a hole in it and is a reminder to me to go deeper into things, so this ring is about that, it also looks like a mouth or a barnacle--

Open Lace Ring, size 7.5

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:57:22 -0500

$75.00
Victorian lace cast into silver

Size 7.5, height is 5/8 in. or 1.5 cm. tall

green onion earrings

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:56:51 -0500

$100.00
1.75 ins in length

I pulled up green onions in central park, glued them together and cast them into silver and gold--

Ring Sizer--

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:28:14 -0400

$5.00
To help you find your ring size--

Swallow Cufflinks--

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:28:14 -0400

$100.00
Cufflinks in silver, with a bird impression stamped in them--

Square Bone Ring

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:12:52 -0400

$75.00
This ring is 4 small animals' arm or leg bones glued together, with some extra knee or hand pieces at the corners--

Available in silver, or silver blackened--

Size 8, or size 6, ¼ inch tall at the tallest

Crown lace ring, size 5.75

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:00:27 -0400

$75.00
Cast from Victorian lace--
size 5.75, height is 3/4 inches

simple ring

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:00:27 -0400

$75.00
This ring is made from wax and has a very good handmade irregular feeling to the touch--

The second ring shown here is called the couple ring, and is available on my website in 3 sizes--
www.AnneArdenMcDonald.com

Size 6

Pendulum Necklace

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:28:16 -0400

$100.00
I did an installation last Summer that was all about weightlessness and weightedness--
It was called Layered, buoyed, tethered, barely--

I cast several pendulums for it, I have since made these two into necklaces--

They come in two shapes--the teardrop and the triangle, and in two patinas--silver and black--

And yes, the chain is included, 16 inches or you can request longer, up to a point--

Burlap Collage Ring

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:28:16 -0400

$75.00
A ring built out of layers of linen and burlap, with a tiny button stitched on--
size 7, height is .5 inches--

Button and buttonhole ring

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:28:15 -0400

$75.00
This ring is made from a vintage suede glove--
It comes in a size 4.5, height is 3/4 inches--

Tiny Crown Lace Ring, size 4

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:05:00 -0400

$75.00
Victorian lace cast into a ring--
There are 2 rings here, one is more of a crown and one is flat on the edges--
each is size 4, height is 3/8 inches--

Floral Lace Ring, size 5.5

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:05:00 -0400

$75.00
Ring made from Victorian lace, cast into metal

size 5.5, height is .5 inches

Four Flowers lace ring, size 8.5

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:05:00 -0400

$75.00
Victorian lace cast into a ring
size 8.5, height is 3/4 inches

Graphic fern ring

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:30:42 -0400

$75.00
I picked the top of a fern, pressed it into a wax band, and cast it—
It had such a graphic line, like tiny fiddleheads, each one a fractal--

Sizes 5.5, 7 and 8
.5 inches tall at the tallest--

Path Pirate ring--

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:47:28 -0400

$75.00
This ring is about the path of your life, but with no ending point, and along the path is an X making the spot for buried treasure and encouraging you to get in there and dig--

ring is size 7 ½, height is 1.5 cm

Apple Seed Ring

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:47:28 -0400

$75.00
size 6, 7.25, 8.25, height is 1 cm.

This is the first ring I made—I stitched apple seeds together and cast them—I was thinking about having a child and wanted to meditate on seeds and fertility of all kinds—
but people see different things in it—flames, teeth, tears, a crown—

The ring is built so that there are rounded seeds across the inside of your hand so that it is comfortable, as shown--

Price is for silver, gold is available on request for a higher price--

Root Rings

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:47:27 -0400

$75.00
Cast from some roots that I pulled out of a riverbank last summer--
I love the organic shape of roots, also they are a great symbol for history, the past, ancestors, being grounded, and a reminder to go deeper—

Images are listed according to size, from largest to smallest--

Big size 8.25--all of these can be changed slightly--

Medium size 7

small size 5

tiny size 4

Giant size 13

Watch parts ring

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:46:25 -0400

$75.00
Silver ring made by pressing antique watch parts into wax--
Height is 1.4 cm, available in sizes 7, 9.5

This one is about actual working mechanical parts--it's kind of a reaction to the digital age and the abstraction of zeros and ones--

Misc. bone ring

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:42:16 -0400

$75.00
I made a collage of bones, the way they never would have been in nature--a hip glued to a hand to an arm to a spine, and cast it into a ring--

Size 10-ish, 5/8 of an inch tall at the tallest spot

Branch Rings

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:42:16 -0400

$75.00
These are rings that I made by cutting out a section of a branch, casting it into silver, and hollowing it out--
I wanted it to be as if a tree is hugging your finger--
They are size 5, 7 and 9--in reverse order of the knot size--
( the smallest on has the biggest knot )