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!

The Sound of Fasteners

For our last entry of the year, for our Month of Music, please allow me to introduce a new series we are putting together called

The Sound of Fasteners

So from 'The Sound of Fasteners' here is our first sound - the sound of 300 pieces of Steel 1"-14 Flex Locknuts being poured into a keg...what might be noise in a warehouse to some people is music to our ears!

Maybe I will try to add a drum beat and some vocals to it and make actually music out of it...stay tuned.

Heavy Metal

I couldn't write it better than Christopher over at This is Colossal.com so I am reposting what he wrote about Brian Mock who is, in Christopher's words, a Portland-based sculptor who is a welding virtuoso!  

Since this is music month I am posting all of his guitar sculptures, but he makes lots of beautiful sculptures so if you like these also check out his Website, Facebook or Etsy page.

Christopher wrote the following : 

Portland-based sculptor Brian Mock turned hundreds of discarded nuts, bolts, hinges, and forks into life-size dogs, birds, and even faithful replicas of doubleneck Gibson electric guitars. Mock says of his work:

I am intrigued by the challenge of creating an entirely unique piece from an eclectic collection of discarded objects. Giving these old, common items a new and extraordinary life as one sculpture is an artistically challenging yet gratifying process. This type of work is also designed to be highly interactive and prompt viewers to question the reality of what they see. Audience reactions fuel my motivation.

They're full of nuts and bolts, screws and washers so of course they caught our eye, but really there is so much more in them - a lot of creative & interesting things.  

Take a look at his Gibsons and Statocasters:

This one is 7 feet high!

These guitars ROCK!

For more photos, you must click here!

Look at my ears!

Got my earbuds - and I screwed them in!

Everyday I listen to stuff while I work - now, I do it in style...oh yah

Listen to these!

Perfect for music month - perfect for listening to the music on your iPod

Screw-in Ear Buds!

Hurry and get yours now - they are on sale at Urban Outfitters for only $3 !!!

At that price I got each of my sisters a pair...I'm a giver...

January Rocks!

It's 2013!  And it's January!!
And last year we declared the month of January to be the month of MUSIC!
(Be sure to check out last years posts.)

To kick off the month, from 1966, we're introducing you to

BENT BOLT & THE NUTS

and their album called

THE MECHANICAL MAN

There's a blog called The Devil's Music which basically introduces you to old vinyls - that's where we discovered them (it's a cool blog so it deserves a mention.)

And here's the song!

It's basically sung by a robot and it's pretty adorable - the robot is looking for love.

Hey - sing along!

I'm a mechanical man,
I was built in a factory,
my serial number is 
084567123.

I'm designed in The U.S.A.,
and manufactured in Japan.
Does anybody here know a
robot girl who wants to meet 
a mechanical man?

I was made out of stainless steel
to protect my brain from rust,
there's a vacuum cleaner built
into my chest that automaticlly 
picks up dust

I am 5 foot 8 inch tall
and as strong as a moving van
Does anybody here know a
robot girl who wants to meet
a mechanical man?

I can fix an automobile,
I can put up a Christmas tree,
I can milk a cow,
I can mow a lawn,
I can pour you a cup of tea,
but I'm looking for someone
who could help me to charge 
my coils,
and fill me up with bat-ter-ies
and feed me my daily oil

I would not care at all
if she looked like a garbage can,
does anybody here know a
robot girl who wants to meet a
mechanical....chanical....chanical....
chanical....chanical....chanical....
chanical....chanical....OH NO!!!!

(CRASH!! KLUNK!!)

And lastly, here's a photo of an actual bent bolt.

We made you something...

For our New Year's Eve celebration we made charms for our champagne glasses out of - you guessed it - fasteners!

We were inspired by these we found on Etsy.

They're great, right?

Perfect for a small little New Year's celebration, right?

So we made some of our own!  We made 6 different ones.

And guess what - I still have the Christmas spirit in me and I want to give you a set!

For the first 5 people who leave us a comment I will send you your very own set of 6.

Leave a comment and then email me at justine@freewayfasteners.com with your address and off it will go.

Have a safe and happy new years everyone - see you in 2013!