Mewkittie Creations

The Mandrel’s Frit

While I was taking the silver glass class last week at The Mandrel, Donna had made some new frit colors. Of course I had to buy some to try. The first one is called Blueberry Stains. I really like it. It’s subtle and seems to work on a variety of base colors.

The frit looks different on the different color bases. I think this frit works well on both dark and light color bases.

This next one is called Berry-licious. I like it too. I need to try it on different base colors. It’s more of a transparent frit and I love, love, love the bright fuchsia color.

I used different color base beads and the first bead with the dots on it was too close to the frit color. This frit looks good on lighter colors, though I haven’t tested it on too many dark colored glasses.

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Beads

on February 12, 2011 at 10:17 am Comments Off
Tags: Beads, Glass

Silver Glass Class

Last weekend I took a silver glass class. Silver glass is a type of glass that has metal in it and depending on how it’s worked, can produce a bunch of different colors and finishes. I love the look but I could never achieve it myself. These are three beads I made from the class. They aren’t very good beads but I did learn how to work the glass. It’s always tough making beads in a class, trying to learn a new technique, along with using different equipment. I’m fairly pleased with these and I can’t wait to try to reproduce what I learned at home.

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Beads

on February 12, 2011 at 10:10 am Comments Off
Tags: Beads, Glass

Something Brand New!!

I needed a shawl pin for the shrug I previous knitted so I made this one yesterday. My friend gave me the etched copper and I cut out a simple shape. It didn’t look good. It was too flat and had no dimension. Another friend suggested making it wavy by putting wire under the piece, then pressing it in a pneumatic press. That did the trick!! I colored it some using just heat and sealed it with a polymer sealant. Of course, I can’t make anything without glass in it so I made the little heart topper.

I think it turned out pretty cool!!

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on January 30, 2011 at 9:12 am Comments Off
Tags: Beadables, Beads, Copper

I’m In A Rut

Yep, more key finders and toads. I really need to work on something different for a change……

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on January 22, 2011 at 5:25 pm Comments Off
Tags: Beadables, Beads, Glass

Just A Few Beads

I haven’t posted for a while because I haven’t made anything of substance for a while. I did make a few beads this weekend so here they are:

Just black and white beads.

I also made some heart toppers that I plan to use on shawl pin sticks. I plan to make the shawl pins out of etched copper and make a stick out of copper wire with the heart topper on the end of it.

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on January 16, 2011 at 12:40 pm Comments Off
Tags: Beadables, Beads, Glass

Pink Key Finders

I went with pink last night and made all pink beads. These are a few I used for the key finder dangles.

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on January 9, 2011 at 2:01 pm Comments Off
Tags: Beadables, Beads

Last Of Polymer Clay Pins – for a while

These are the last ones I am going to make for a while. Maybe for a year. The Asian coin ones are a new style. Hopefully they will be good sellers.

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Jewelry

on January 9, 2011 at 1:59 pm Comments Off
Tags: Beads, Jewelry, Polymer Clay

Key Finders

Seems like I’m working on several things at one time. No wonder it doesn’t seem like I’m getting anything done. Here’s more key finders that I got assembled.

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on January 4, 2011 at 11:21 am Comments Off
Tags: Beadables, Beads, Glass

Polymer Clay Pins

I’ve been trying to finish up the rest of the pins my sister started when she was here for the holidays. I still have a bunch to go. Here’s a few that I finish.

More kimono pins.