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!!

Published in: on April 7, 2012 at 12:28 pm  Comments Off on On A Bracelet Roll  
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Birds and Kitties

My cousin emailed me last Thursday to ask if I could make more bird and kitty beads for her quilt show. Apparently she sold all the ones I already gave her before the show. I made a bunch of them and I would have had more if I hadn’t dropped a bag of beads on a hard tile floor. With everything so close together, I broke several beads. Still, I think I made enough for her show.

These are the big birds, which aren’t different from the small birds, except they are bigger.

The flock of baby birds.

All the kitties.

Published in: on April 2, 2012 at 8:43 pm  Comments Off on Birds and Kitties  
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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….

Published in: on March 31, 2012 at 11:08 am  Comments Off on What? More Bracelets?  
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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.

 

Published in: on March 25, 2012 at 9:56 am  Comments Off on More Buttons And Bracelets  
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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.

Published in: on March 18, 2012 at 5:33 pm  Comments Off on Two More Leather Ladder Bracelets  
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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.

 

Published in: on March 17, 2012 at 1:04 pm  Comments Off on Leather Ladder Bracelet With Pearls  
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More Cabs

Still trying to get some glass cabs made so I can use them on the copper boxes. Here’s the ones I made this weekend.

The biggest ones are 3/4″ and the smallest one is about…well, I don’t know. They are small.

I’m not happy with this one. It’s 1 1/4″ big. Too big for the stuff I want to use it for and I don’t even like the design.

Then I made the black and white set of beads for my cousin’s quilt show. The other set, I use up all the ends of my glass rods. These beads are small so they work out well for short ends.

Published in: on March 12, 2012 at 8:22 pm  Comments Off on More Cabs  
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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.

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Not my best work but this was all an experiment.

Published in: on March 10, 2012 at 8:27 pm  Comments Off on Solderless Bezel Pendant  
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Buttons And Cabs

I made another set of buttons but decided to try something new. I need to work on my thin stringer control and I also need some small cabochons for my copper box beads. I decided to make a few. I still need more practice on my stringer control and coming up with nice designs but I think these are acceptable.

I purposely put the flower off center. Now I need to make about 10 more of these.

This is the set of buttons I made. I used pink heart murrini in the centers.

Published in: on March 5, 2012 at 7:57 pm  Comments Off on Buttons And Cabs  
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You Guessed It – More Buttons

Yep, more. I’m getting tired of making them too.

I used raku murrini on the tops of these. I made them myself, that’s why they don’t look that great. I need a lot of practice on making canes out of glass.

Even though I’m not fond of green, someone might be so I made these set.

More frit buttons. I wanted these to be purple but they turned out really pink. Need to look for some purple frit.

 

A couple of two holed buttons. Still have to make more of these. Might work on something different tonight. Maybe more kitties…..

 

 

Published in: on March 4, 2012 at 10:14 am  Comments Off on You Guessed It – More Buttons  
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