Short Ornament and Another Skeleton Key With Beads

I’m kind of lost as far as making things out of glass. I torched this weekend but didn’t have anything specific to work on. So, I tried a short ornament that would be able to be hung on a Christmas tree. The others are kind of long and probably a little too heavy.

ShortPinkDangle

This one ended up to be about 4 inches long.

I really like making beads on skeleton keys. It’s a little challenging as it takes longer for the key to warm up and there is always a chance that my glass rod that I hold the key with will break. I especially like the ones that I can make more than one bead on. This one had a long shank so I put on three beads, the middle one has silver foil in it.

SkeletonKeyBlackSilverNow I have to make the skeleton keys into necklaces.

Published in: on February 17, 2013 at 6:07 pm  Comments Off on Short Ornament and Another Skeleton Key With Beads  
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Yahoo!! I Finished My Bracelet!!

I’ve been wanting a chunkier silver bracelet and finally got all the glass cabs made. The disc beads are by Outwest Beads. I only wish I could make a disc bead in one color that turns out symmetrical, much less thin layers of different colors.

SilverGlassBeadBraceletFinishedThe clasp is hidden under the left circle component. I was going to do a different clasp but I didn’t like the way it fit together so I scrapped that idea and went with a hook type clasp. If I knew that when I made the big half loop on the other side, I would have made that smaller. Oh well…..

 

Published in: on February 15, 2013 at 2:29 pm  Comments Off on Yahoo!! I Finished My Bracelet!!  
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Yellow and Blue Ornament

It didn’t take me long before I wanted to make another ornament. This one turned out really bright and cheery. I did have more yellow in it and it was just too much so I made more blue beads and used the yellow for accents.

BlueYellowDangleThis is about 7 inches long.

Published in: on February 11, 2013 at 9:30 pm  Comments Off on Yellow and Blue Ornament  
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Two Skeleton Keys With Beads

I don’t have much to show this week as I’ve been working on a bracelet that has several components so it’s a bit time consuming. I did get some glass beads made on skeleton keys. I really like to make them. It’s fun to have the beads move around.

SkeletonKeys

Because I’ve been playing with dichroic glass, these both have a bead made with it.

Okay, a sneak peek at my bracelet. I have three components done so far.

SilverGlasBeadBracelet

I still have two more components and a clasp to make. This probably won’t be the order they go in when I finish the other components, I just wanted to see what they looked like linked together.

Published in: on February 10, 2013 at 9:47 pm  Comments Off on Two Skeleton Keys With Beads  
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Purple Dichroic Ornament

Another purple ornament. This one I did a few beads with dichroic glass in them. They are the sparkly ones.

PurpleDichroDangle

This one is about 6 1/2 inches long.

Published in: on February 6, 2013 at 7:36 pm  Comments Off on Purple Dichroic Ornament  
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Pink, Black and Silver Necklace

I made this necklace to go with a black velour top that I cut wedges into and added some pink, black and gray sweater fabric. I previously made a felt and velvet pin and wanted another option for an embellishment. I won’t be wearing the pin and necklace together, that would be too much. Plus, I didn’t have a pink necklace so what better time to make one.

PinkBlackNecklace

This is about 20 inches long. The sparkle from the dichroic beads look really nice on the black top.

Published in: on February 3, 2013 at 1:01 pm  Comments Off on Pink, Black and Silver Necklace  
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Another Wavy Bracelet

I decided to try one out of thinner copper. I was doing well, then I soldered the bangle with the wrong side facing out. I wanted to do something different but since I now had no texture in the inside, the best way to cover it up was with the silver wire “bones”. I put a bunch on this one.

WavyBangle2ndOne

I also used silver solder on this one and since it’s more malleable, I was able to get the copper folded over without it cracking.

 

This is both bangles stacked together. It needs another one and hopefully my next one will go in the middle with different embellishments. WavyBangles

Published in: on February 2, 2013 at 12:50 pm  Comments Off on Another Wavy Bracelet  
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Blue Ornament

Well, I went back to making ornaments. I should be working on some beads for a necklace but I wasn’t feeling like making small beads. So, back to the ornaments. This one is all different colors of blue.

BlueDangle

It’s about 7 inches long.

Published in: on February 1, 2013 at 12:12 pm  Comments Off on Blue Ornament  
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Wavy Bangle

This is my first wavy bangle that I learned from a tutorial that Robyn Cornelius wrote up. I decided to use copper for my first one since sterling silver is so expensive. Don’t want to make any mistakes. I just happened to have some copper strips already cut so I used one of them. It was too thick so I wasn’t able to get the shape round but I kind of like the organic look.

WavyBangleSide1

This is the way it looks flat.

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Couple of side view pictures. Forgive the orange bead prop in the last picture. That was the only thing I had sitting on my table that worked.

Published in: on January 30, 2013 at 6:56 pm  Comments Off on Wavy Bangle  
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Pink Felt And Velvet Brooch

Pin or brooch? Not sure which. I do know it’s made out of hand dyed wool felt and hand dyed rayon velvet. I made it to match a top that I bought that was too small so I cut it up and added wedges of sweater fabric into it. The top is black velour and I added striped wedges of pinks, black and gray strips of sweater fabric. I think the pin goes well with the top.

PinkLeaf

Published in: on January 20, 2013 at 9:30 pm  Comments Off on Pink Felt And Velvet Brooch  
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