Here’s the last little people figure that I just finished. I think I’m going to keep this one. I like the other two better for the Bead of Courage raffle.
They are a bunch of fun to make but take a while to make all the components. Then I need extra components since I don’t know how things are going to fit together. So I end up with lots of extra components that I can’t really use unless I make another figure. Which I might in the future but this is it for right now.
I finished my second little people figure for the Beads Of Courage raffle.
I think this one turned out kind of cute. I put a little flower on the collar. I’m going to make one more and pick out of them which two are the best and donate two of them. They are kind of fun to make since anything goes. I can use up all my short rods of glass.
My glass bead club is hosting a Beads Of Courage fund raising event in a couple of weeks and I made a little people figure for the raffle. I’m planning on making another one, this is the first one I’m donating. I still have to make the components for the second one.
These are kind of fun to make as anything goes. I want to experiment with adding hair and arms later. I wish I had more time to but I have to have these done by next weekend so I can give them to the raffle chair person before the event. Sure hope some people will donate toward this.
I got more big hole beads cored with sterling silver. With the other ones, I think this will be plenty for my friend. In fact, too many. I’m sure her Pandora bracelet isn’t large enough to put all the beads on there, especially the larger ones. But she will have lots to choose from.
She wanted purple and blues. I didn’t do too well on the colors she wanted, oh well. I’m still trying to figure out how people make these beads more complex. It tough making them small because the big hole already makes them bigger. Still need lots of practice but these should suffice for right now.
I’m trying to make some big hole beads for a friend. She has a Pandora bracelets and wants some glass beads to string on it. I don’t normally make big hole beads to fit Pandora bracelets. There are challenges. Like the size. The hole has to be big enough so it fits on the bracelet and I can’t make a massive bead to use on a bracelet. It’s hard decorating such a small bead. I don’t know how other do it. There are also issues with coring the beads with sterling silver tubing. The bead needs to be symmetrical with a good hole. No ragged edges around the hole, else when I core it, the bead will crack. I did crack a few beads – I hate that. Course, it’s always the ones I like. I did get these done and plan to make a few more before showing them to her.
Left one is a blue base with purple frit on it. The middle two are silver glass. That’s the best I can do with the color. As you all know I’m silver glass challenged. The right one is an opal yellow base with enamels on it. I meandered a opal yellow stringer around the middle to add interest. I plan to make more blue and purple ones soon.
I filled up a whole cigar box of push pins. Yeah!!
I still want to make about 10 more sets, so that’s 30 more pins. I still have my work cut out for me especially if the weather stays hot. I can’t seem to get a good chunk of time in the garage. I have to keep coming inside to cool off. These are ready for the fall craft shows. Hope I sell them all!!
I found this skeleton key with the bead on it recently. I made the bead on the key a long time ago. I didn’t really like it because the barrel of the key isn’t round so the bead doesn’t turn all the way around. It does move up and down though. I finally decided to do something with it because I really like the bead.
Easy peasy putting it together. Finding all the components was another thing…..
I don’t know why I decided to make these when it’s the hottest time of the year. It takes a while to torch fire a whole bangle in the garage with no air conditioning. Especially when I have to redo one because I don’t like the way the enameling turned out. Sometimes I don’t get the enamel melted in smooth and I don’t noticed until after it’s cooled off and I pick it up and find a rough spot.
I usually use pearls where the little rock is but I ran out of rice shaped pearls so I used little drilled rocks instead for the wire bracelets. I sell these as a set because I think it’s cool to wear both together.
I sold a ton of push pins last year and got really burned out making them. Now that I’ve had a break from them I’m getting back into making them for the fall craft shows. Here’s the first ones.
Ignore the dust on the glass. It’s from the corks. I sand the bottoms down so they don’t roll around. The frog face, the one on the bottom left is a new design. So are the spiral designs. Still trying to come up with new ideas.
This little piggy stayed at home and missed the group shot…..
Everything comes in twos this time. I made a couple of buttons for my friend:
The are going with the spacer beads I made in a previous post.
And a couple of big hole beads for a Pandora bracelet:
These have silver leaf in them to give them some sparkle.
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