Feel the Love Necklace

This one is THE BEST!

Brian Mock (who we've mentioned before - click here for older posts) made this necklace from tiny reclaimed screws. I think it does a really good job of make something so macho seem so sweet... I AM FEELING THE LOVE! If he starts making them again, I'm getting one.

More Fastener Love

We're still thinking of love so here is one more fastener valentine.

Found this at the Tried & True Blog

It's cute,right?

Head over to the blog because she teaches you how to make your own.

A Fastener Valentine

The perfect fit!

I can't remember where I found this but it's too cute.

"I felt like I was made for you..."

Have a Happy Valentine's Day.

Heart-Shaped Fastener

Valentine's Day is coming up so we're showing you our heart head fastener

This is really an item we sell! 

Perfect for Valentine's Day.

I Love Loving Nuts & Bolts

So here's a little more love...

A love poem made with fasteners - how sweet is this?!

And you can make your own by clicking over to Vanessa Brady's website called Tried & True.

Nothing says LOVE like NUTS & BOLTS

This shirt says it all for us! 

To our customers & our friends, Happy Valentine's Day.

If you want your own tee, get it over at Etsy.com.

Heart-shaped Watermelons

In honor of Valentine's Day approaching, we're showing
you the HEART-SHAPED WATERMELON!

That looks unbelievable, right?

The farmer himself looks as sweet as the watermelon. He is Hiroichi Kimura of Surprised Farmer.  He's the actual guy who made this happen!

And how does he do it? He puts the watermelons in a special mold as it grows.

I SEE NUTS & BOLTS! There they are, holding the mold together - yeah!

And here is the result...I wonder if it is delicious too.

We found all the photos, the article and the following video from ROCKET NEWS 24.com

The video is really great. Be sure to watch it.

She wears them well!

How Awesome!

I went to see my friend Sylvia at RSSA Home Improvement Center in Anaheim, CA and her awesomeness blew me away - LOOK AT THOSE EARRINGS! A slice of a bolt!

I love a lady who can wear fasteners - love ya' Sylvia!

I wonder if she got those for Valentines...

"We go together!"

So romantic - things that go together!

Illustrator Richard McGuire for the June issue of the New Yorker back in 2010 demonstrated how some things just go so well together, like nuts & bolts. 

Happy Valentine's Day!

A Corny Nut Ring

Look what we made - an acorn nut ring!

If you haven't bought your sweetie something by now, with plenty of time to ship, you're going to need to make something - perhaps like this - for a Valentine's gift.

We used a tiny little thing for the band - I would suggest getting a larger one...

this one turned out really cute but it barely fits my pinky!

Alitas Jewelry...not elitist jewelry

Do a Google image search of 

" Alitas Jewelry David Conroy " 

AND BE AMAZED!

He doesn't have his own webpage so the most formal place to see his work is at his Etsy shop.

But a lot of people have written about him and his jewelry after seeing it in person at local festivals & craft fairs, so you can see their photos and also read their blogs about him. Here are a few sites to see & read stuff:

• The Fashion Lush
• The Flickr page of Faerydusted1
• My Fair Vanity (you'll need to scroll down a bit to get to David's part)

I can't pull the flickr images to post because I have no right to use their photos so do yourself the favor and do the google search - the man has made and made and made so much stuff, and it's just unbelievably beautiful - you have to see it!

Here are a few photos from his Etsy Shop:

...jewelry for Valentines day is an awesome idea!

Uncommonly Good Jewelry

UncommonGoods.com is another website I think sells great stuff, including fastener jewelry.

This is called the Sunshine Necklace - it's made of external lock washers.

The description on the website is so poetic &beautiful.

It's very sweet - perfect for a sweetie.

And how great is this?! It's a bracelet made out of stained glass in the shape of a hexagon - LOVE IT!

And then these - earrings that look like screws are going through your ears! What fun! One of my sisters has them and the next time she wears hers I will take a photo to post - they're awesome.

 

Only one week until Valentine's Day - get shopping!

Etsy is the Bestsy!

Etsy.com is the best site for fastener jewelry! It is full of creative people making awesome stuff...I'm seriously thinking about buying one of each of these - your valentine would be lucky to get any one of these beauties.

By Studiomess

By PartsbyNC

By GeeksandSuch

By 1UpStyle

And these are just a few - there is so much more there!

You must check out Etsy.com for more stuff.

Fabulous February

This year, in honor of Valentine's Day, I will declare February - Jewelry month.

Fabulous Februarys from now on!

Februarys are now all about JEWELRY, about fabulous bling. Whether it's jewelry you make or jewelry you buy - it's all jewelry you can give to your valentine.  

Let's start off with the coolest ring ever: It's super masculine and super cool...the center of each gear is a slotted little screw...it takes my breath away every time...here it is:

Made by Kinekt Designs - The Gear Ring!

And it's more than good-looking - it actually moves!
Watch this video to see it in action.

Someone get me one!

Happy Valentine's Day!



Love & Fasteners...the right fit makes all the difference.

A Bolt through the Heart

This one is cute...we found it here

But this one is awesome!

And there's lots of bolts...and nuts, washers, rivets...through the heart.

You know we ♥ fasteners, right?

Sending chocolates?

If you're going to send chocolates - how about these!

The card should read,
"We're the perfect fit."

Buy them at Enjou Chocolat

"How much do you love me?"

Nothing shows how much you love someone more than spending big money on them - so here is something special for him and for her for you  to buy them for Valentines Day (nuts & bolts included.)

Karen Walker Jewellery

Nut, Bolt & Heart Pendant

$349.00

Buy it at Precious Peg

OR THIS BEAUTY!

MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer Kit
(There are so many nuts and bolts on this thing!)

The latest in cutting edge personal manufacturing technology!

$1,099.00

Buy it at Maker Bot.com

So how much do you love them?

We heart Andrew Myers!

At the top of the list of things we love is Andrew Myers.

We mentioned him in our blog last year in Screwed Up Portraits but we never mentioned that we met up with him at his studio and he let us see some of his finished pieces and some of his current works in progress.  He's both talented and cool and the pieces are even more spectacular in person.

His studio

Up close with a work in progress.

First he draws them and then holes are drilled where the screw will be placed.

Then each screw is put in place at a specific height so there is contoured shape to them.

Lastly the head of each screw is hand painted.

Andrew shared difficulties he comes across using different lengths of screws & different materials.

Andew Myers...how does he do it?

Other artwork.

Some drawings.

What a talented guy, right?!

Be sure to check him out www.andrewmyersart.com

And he recently finished the one way above that we saw in its infancy. Here is a photo of the final version from his facebook page:

He said he used 9,800 screws!