I’ve been selling some beads online and I had good response from some silvered ivory shard beads I made a while ago. So I made these last night.
I love the turquoise with the shards. Lots of contrast.
New Bead Set
I’m calling these Raspberry Dirty Martini beads. The pale green color is named dirty martini and the rest of the beads are raspberry and pink with a few silver glass beads thrown in.
I love the colors of this set. Might have to make some for myself.
Another Hollow Bead
I just sold this one. I kind of wanted to keep it because I like purple. I can always make another one.
It’s a clear hollow bead with lilac microbeads filling it. The bead caps are anodized aluminum and it’s cored with sterling silver tubing. The blue looking bead cap is really more purple. I couldn’t get a good photo.
Leather and Big Hole Bead Bracelet
I bought some corded nappa leather a while ago and never got around to using it. It’s a double wrap around bracelet with a magnetic clasp. I want to see how the beads move around, it they drop to the back of the bracelet or stay on top. It’s going to get worn next week to try it out.
I added some sterling silver beads in between the cored beads for more bling.
Low Melt Solder Castings
I’ve been playing with low melt solder and making impressions in it. I decided to try silicone molds as they can withstand the heat.
The one on the left, I melted the solder on a piece of copper and press the mold into it. This mold was made from a button so it’s kind of concave and hard to get a good impression. So I decided to try pouring molten solder into the mold. That’s the test piece on the right. Makes a way better impression this way. I do like the funky edges and I think with a flatter mold I’ll be able to get a good impression and still get the funky edges. More testing to come…..
More Hollow Beads
Made two more hollow beads filled with microbeads.
Both are made out of veiled cane glass so they have striations throughout the glass. The have been filled with tiny microbeads and capped with anodized aluminum bead caps, then cored with sterling silver tubing.
More Hollow Beads
I got this clear hollow made up into a necklace. It has red microbeads inside and the bead caps are anodized aluminum.
This next one turned out kind of large and I got a few bubbles in it. Not sure what I’m going to do with it yet. I thought the color would turn out more red but it’s definitely orange.
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