I have to stop soon. I’m not getting anything else done except bracelets. I need to start designing new things for the next craft show.
A couple more double wraps in rose quartz and unikate.
These use tree jasper gemstones.
On A Bracelet Roll
These bracelets are addicting!! I’m making double wrap ones now. They are so much fun. I really like making the buttons to go with them too. That’s my favorite part.
I should have used a different button on this one. The beads are Fancy Jasper – whatever that is. Lots of different colors but none are the same as the button. Oh well….
This one has Blue Sky Jasper beads and it’s hard to tell that I used some silver glass in the button. Not that I have any expectations when it comes to me making silver glass do anything cool.
At first, I was keen about these bamboo beads but I really like them in this bracelet. The beads kind of look like bakelite, the colors vary slightly in them.
Happy Easter!!
What? More Bracelets?
Yep, more bracelets. I’ve been on a roll.
This is my first double wrap bracelet. I used sesame jasper gemstone beads. They really aren’t as pink as in the picture. They look more brown with a pinkish tint. I decided to use pink thread and a pink button to bring out the pink in the beads a bit.
I couple of single wrap ones made out of carnelian beads.
More pearl ones….
More Buttons And Bracelets
I sold my first ladder bracelet yesterday!! I didn’t even get to take a picture of it. I took them to my glass club meeting for show and tell and a gal wanted to buy one. Yeah!!
Here are three more I finished up.
I’m really liking the pearl ones, though I did breakdown and buy some different gemstones to use.
Buttons!! I’m trying to build up my button stock for the bracelets. I like having an assortment to choose from.
Donna that owns the glass shop called The Mandrel made some beads on opal yellow colored glass with purple stringer work on it. Opal yellow is notorious for fine details spreading all over the place. I asked her how she got the lines so crisp. She uses powdered raku on them. I gave it a shot last night. These all have different colors of purple on them and some work better than others. The right one really isn’t purple, it’s lapis with a purple cast to it. While it didn’t spread out, it didn’t react with the raku.
When I can’t do stringer work – sometimes I’m just off during a torch session, I like to make these striped cab buttons. A couple of these have silver glass in them but it’s hard to tell. I can’t seem to do anything with silver glasses.
These are miscellaneous ones to try out some new colors of glass I got.
Two More Leather Ladder Bracelets
As you all know already, I don’t make just one of anything. So, here’s two more leather bracelets. I think these are some low grade charite gemstone beads. One of them I used Fireline to secure the beads in place and the other one I used C-Lon which ended up not being any easier. I could barely pass the thread through the beads and the thread is so wiry, it gets messed up easily.
The C-Lon thread gives a more decorative edge. I made the buttons to go with them.
Leather Ladder Bracelet With Pearls
These bracelets are all the rage this season and I tried my hardest not to jump on the bandwagon. But since I’ve been making buttons, I had to use them for something. Here’s the first bracelet I made using leather and pearls.
These can be made so the bracelet wraps multiple times around the wrist. I’m going to stick with making single ones until I get more made.
I made these buttons to use for the bracelets but I didn’t make the shank hole big enough to fit the leather through. Guess I’ll have to make more tonight.
This is my attempt at working with Raku glass. It’s one of those silver type glasses that change to some nice colors. I was able to get color on the small cab but the more I work the glass it turns to “baby poop” color. I should just stick with what I know works best for me and it’s not silver glass.
Solderless Bezel Pendant
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.
Copper Box Bead Necklace With Glass Beads
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.
Copper and Silver Bangles
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.
Box Bead Bracelet
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.
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