It’s Looking A Lot Like Christmas Ornaments

These will the the last two ornaments for a while. I made these in Christmas colors.

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I’m getting braver and trying more transparent colors. They are harder as the walls have to be even since they show. It’s also harder to clean out the bead release residue. I have to fill them up with water and blow the water out several times to get the pieces all out.

Published in: on January 10, 2013 at 10:03 pm  Comments Off on It’s Looking A Lot Like Christmas Ornaments  
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Orange Ornament

I thought I picked up red but this is clearly orange. It sure looks different when I’m wearing my torching glasses. I had the green bead as an orange one but it was orange overkill so I made the new green bead for this ornament. What’s going to happen is I’m going to end up with a bunch of different colored, leftover hollow beads and not know what to do with them.

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This one is about 7 inches long.

Published in: on January 9, 2013 at 11:39 am  Comments Off on Orange Ornament  
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What Else? Another Ornament Of Course

Got another ornament done. This one is 7 inches long. The big light greenish bead is the biggest hollow bead I’ve ever made.

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Published in: on January 8, 2013 at 9:01 pm  Comments Off on What Else? Another Ornament Of Course  
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Another Ornament

Of course there’s another. I can’t make just one thing and move on to the next. This one is black and white. Guess it’s kind of dark to be an ornament but I like the contrasting colors.

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This one is a little over 6 1/2 inches long.

Published in: on January 7, 2013 at 11:45 am  Comments Off on Another Ornament  
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A Little Late – An Ornament

Well, kind of. This is my prototype for dangle type ornaments. It’s made out of several beads, the three big beads are hollow. All the beads are threaded onto a stainless steel mandrel and a glass end cap is glued on. This one turned out too dark and even though I used different colors for the hollow beads it’s hard to tell. Next time I’ll go a few shades lighter.

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It’s six inches long.

Published in: on January 2, 2013 at 12:26 pm  Comments Off on A Little Late – An Ornament  
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Really Colorful Necklace

I end up with a bunch of short ends of rods of different colors and after a while they start taking over my table. I decided to make some beads out of them. Here’s the results.

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I did use a bunch of clear to encase the beads but the rest was what was on my work table.

Published in: on January 1, 2013 at 11:00 pm  Comments Off on Really Colorful Necklace  
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More Bracelets

I finished these four all copper bracelets…..

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And this purple bracelet….

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Published in: on December 30, 2012 at 12:51 pm  Comments Off on More Bracelets  
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Another Two Bracelets

Yep, two more bracelets.

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The top is turquoise and the bottom one is another blue one. Again, I took crappy pictures. I’m going to have to work on that…..

Published in: on December 21, 2012 at 1:55 pm  Comments Off on Another Two Bracelets  
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Two More Bracelets

Things seem to be happening in twos. At least when it comes to me making things. Here’s two more bracelets I just finished up.

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Purples and pinks, my favorite colors!!

Published in: on December 17, 2012 at 9:50 pm  Comments Off on Two More Bracelets  
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Two Blue Bracelets

I got these done this weekend…..

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I know the back side of the white paper has printing on it but I was too lazy to take another picture or edit it out. I know I should spend more time on my photos but then that would take away time from making things. It’s either priorities or laziness….

Published in: on December 16, 2012 at 9:48 pm  Comments Off on Two Blue Bracelets  
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