I was trying to think of a way to make some pretty head pins for the cell phone charms and zipper pulls I make. I found some stainless steel wire, cut it into pieces and melted some glass to make the little balls on the end of the wire.
The wire came out of the kiln a really metallic blue. Pretty neato. But I didn’t want to leave them like that so I polished it off.
These are a few charms that I made with the glass head pins. I need to test them and see how well they hold up.
Making more push pins to sell at the fall craft shows. I’m making a set every time I torch and got these made in the past few weeks.
I need to start concentrating on animal push pins. I checked out what I had left from last season and only had a few sets left. I’ll be making plenty more before I fill up a whole cigar box.
It’s taking me way more time than I thought it would to make these cab charms but they sure are cute. I’ve got a lot of cabs ready to be set, just have to pick up the pace on the metal part. Anyhoo, here’s the ones I got done this weekend.
Next time I plan to have some different designs. That is if everything works out…..
This was something that I’ve wanted to try for a while and finally got around to it. It’s hard to set a small cab with a loop on the bottom. And one with a little flower on it made it even harder as I had to make sure the bezel didn’t get in the way. Here’s a crappy picture of the “test” I made.
I’d of liked the cab to sit inside the bezel a bit more but because of the flower that wasn’t possible. I’m going to try another one without a flower and see if I can get the results I want.
I haven’t finished anything this weekend except some beads so here’s my meager offerings.
Some big hole beads that I still have to core with sterling silver.
Beads on skeleton keys. I like making these. I’m going to be making a bunch of these to sell next year.
This will the be last one for a while. I have enough made to sell at the fall craft shows.
I was trying to make them in different colors but didn’t succeed. Oh well, I hope the colors that I did use people will like.
This is the second to the last one. It’s a bit different. I had to use 6 beads instead of 5. Guess I made them more skinny but it all worked out.
After these, I only have two more to make. Yeah!! Not that I know what I’m going to be working on next but I have a little while to think about it. Here’s the two I just assembled:
I like the colors of these and the bottom one is the closest I get to “organic” beads. I just can’t seem to put glass on at random (except frit) and make it look good.
Well, I have 10 of them to put beads onto so here’s the next two. I did these in black and white beads with some silver thrown in.
This time I made my beads too round. I had a hard time getting 5 beads to work but 4 beads wasn’t enough. Maybe next time I’ll find a happy medium.
I made the beads for these two bracelet helpers last night. I sometimes have to make a bunch of beads since I don’t measure them just to make them “fit” so I can screw the top onto the bracelet helper without the beads being too loose or going over the threads of the screw. I ended up making a bunch of thinner beads that didn’t work out. I’ll have to use them for something else. Oh well…
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