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 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.
My friend wanted some spacer beads for a project she is working on. I usually don’t worry about sizing my spacers as I usually make a bunch and can find a few the same size. But making them for someone else I wanted to be sure I made them pretty much the same size. I used one of my graphite bead roller in my attempt to size them the same.
The top ones are transparent cobalt, the middle are dark lapis and the bottom one are opal yellow. I need to make a few more opal yellow ones. I ran out of mandrels last night. Sure not fun cleaning all the bead holes either.
I’m naming this necklace – Prima Donna, for Donna Conklin that taught me how to make these beads. Or at least most of them. She made a necklace similar to this one and I just loved it so I finally got a chance to make my own.
The only bead that isn’t glass is the pewter Green Girl bead on the left. The rest are all glass.
Getting ready for the fall craft shows!! Made some zipper pulls. Rice balls and mochi trees.
Oh, and one heart…..
More beads that I don’t know what I’m going to do with yet. I’m thinking of a necklace and that will take about 4 times as many beads as I have here.
These are kind of cool, just clear frit on a base color. The darker colors work better. If I had larger frit there would be more lines on the beads and more contrast.
Opal yellow and enamels on these and one red bead in the middle.
I need to make some beads for cell phone charms and zipper pulls. This heart I’m going to use for a charm or a pull. Probably make a few more of these.
Got these fish charms done this week. I didn’t put hooks on these as they get in the way if these are used as a dangle thingy.
And a set of beads. Might use them for a bracelet.
Need to make a few more large beads to make a complete bracelet.
I like the way this one turned out. But then I like red and pink. And on a black dress or top, I think it would look great.
I did this one a little differently. Not that anyone can tell. I made the flowers with a hole all the way through, instead of making them on a copper wire. I sewed them directly onto the cord. I thought it would be easier to place the flowers but it’s still a little difficult to get them where I want them.
I had one more bead pen blank so I thought I’d make the beads for it. Here it is all done up.
I thought the colors would be more red than orange. Oh well……
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