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…
I’m kind of liking the short ornaments better than the long ones. They are lighter and can be hung on a smaller tree. The branches don’t have to be like walking sticks to hold them up.
This one is about 5 inches long.
The bracelet helpers are just beadable things that I add the beads to. It has a screw on top. Not sure how well they will sell. Someone told me she was very successful selling them. I couldn’t figure out how to use it.
At least this one is more spring like that the Christmas ornaments….
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.
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.
Now I have to make the skeleton keys into necklaces.
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.
The 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…..
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.
This is about 7 inches long.
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.
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.
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.
Another purple ornament. This one I did a few beads with dichroic glass in them. They are the sparkly ones.
This one is about 6 1/2 inches long.
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.
This is about 20 inches long. The sparkle from the dichroic beads look really nice on the black top.
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.
It’s about 7 inches long.
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