I’m now stuck on leather. I’m really liking working with it. Especially the distressed leather.
This one is similar to the other two I made previously. Just used different beads. I made the glass ones in this bracelet.
This is a multi-strand bracelet with big holed pearls and sterling silver. It has a magnetic clasp.
Some key chains that I just finished up making.
When my sister was down for the holidays last year she made a bunch of porthole pendants. They have been sitting around so I finally finished them up. Gluing a image to the glass domes and putting them into the porthole pendants. That’s the easy part.
I put this one on a leather necklace because the bail just happened to fit. I have to figure out what size tubing my sister used for this as it works perfectly with this size leather.
I used silk ribbons for the necklaces on the next three pendants. I finish them with a two hole glass button and glass end caps. The two hole button acts like a slider type clasp.
The reason the end caps and button isn’t showing in this picture is because I “lost” one of the end caps before I had a chance to glue it on. I now have to remake it tonight.
Close up of the pendants.
I made these ladder bracelet for myself:
Not sure if I like the black leather with the amethyst stones but I didn’t like it with brown or natural leather either. That’s all the choices I had. I’ll wear it and if I don’t like it I’ll remake it with another color leather.
Then, a new type bracelet:
It’s a double wrap leather bracelet with drill rocks and other beads. I made it to fit my wrist and I so far, it’s pretty comfortable. I’m going to change how I do the connections from the rock piece to the leather on my next one. You didn’t think this would be the only one, did you?
I made the copper bail and riveted it to a glass bead. It’s strung on the same leather as the bracelet. The little stone is pyrite.
I started a ladder bracelet this week and never finished it. I’m finally getting tired of making them. Not that I won’t go back and revisit them later. I’m still making buttons for them and should have a good stock of them when I do get back to making them.
First up is a couple of glass pendants that I made a copper bail to hang them from.
I wish I could find bezel cups with higher sides. Just a tad bit higher would be a big help since I’m trying to hide a rivet inside the bezel cup.
I made some new beads to use for these copper bails last night.
The first one has frit and silver foil and silver glass in it. The other two are all transparent glass with a little heart.
More buttons that I made this weekend. I like making buttons….
My mom made these fabric origami boxes. Of course it wouldn’t be right not to embellish them with a glass bead or button.
Aren’t they cute?
I thought I wouldn’t have time to work on this but I forced myself. I wanted to try this idea and use it with glass pieces. For this one I used an already drilled rock that I had in my drawer. So I guess this could be considered the prototype.
Front. It’s got a lapis cab set in a bezel under a piece of copper.
Back
Our little group had a play day today and I made this solderless bezel pendant. It’s solderless because the bezel is formed by punching a circle in copper, then dapped into a bezel shape. I planned on using a glass cab but I made the bezel too large so I enameled a domed copper circle and use that instead.
Not my best work but this was all an experiment.
I finally got this necklace done. It was another learning experience. Some things didn’t turn out the best but I’ll know next time.
It’s all copper except for the beads and the chain. I couldn’t find any all copper snake chain. This was the closest I could find. Fortunately it holds up well for soldering. It’s a long necklace, well, long for me but it wouldn’t have the drapey look if I made it shorter.
I had these left over copper bangles from my unsuccessful attempts at enameling them. I decided to wrap fine silver wire around them and melt the silver in partially. I was going for a rustic look and the do look rustic.
The one on the bottom is wrapped with a thin gauge of copper wire before wrapping it with fine silver wire. I thought the copper wire would give it more texture without the added cost. The top one is just wrapped with fine silver. These are really easy and quick to make.
This is my attempt at making a bracelet using the box beads. This isn’t perfect, I learned a lot of things not to do on this project. Still it’s good enough for me to wear. Hopefully my next one will be better.
This mostly copper except the silver bezel cups for the cabs.
I added a glass cabochon to the top of this box bead. I want to make more of these, but maybe string more than one on a chain. This one looked kind of lonely so I added the copper heishi beads and it still looked plain. That’s when I added the ribbon and now it’s too cutesy. Not sure what I’m going to do with these yet. Back to brainstorming….
