I always end up with extra beads from the jewelry I make. They are good beads but they usually end up in a bowl and never get touched again. I decided to use some of them up in these fibula pins.
These are all made out of copper wire.
I’m having a lot of fun playing with torch firing enamels onto copper. The enameled tube ends have been flared out using my rivet press. The other beads are tubing that I wrapped wire around. The ends are balled up copper and sterling silver. I was able to fuse the sterling silver onto the copper. It’s strung on thick brown leather with copper end caps.
This is the last pair of tiny beads for the teeny tiny bead exchange. I probably made about 30 beads to get 6 that matched. It was much harder than I thought it would be. I just have to get these packaged up and sent off the the swap host.
I swore I wouldn’t be doing anymore swaps this year but this one is for one pair of beads that are small enough to both fix onto a dime. Easy peasy, right? I used to make tiny beads so I should still be able to do them. Took me almost the entire evening to make five of them. Here’s the results:
These are tiny and I encased them too!! Okay, they are exactly the same but close.
I had originally taken these on a dime but when I downloaded my pictures, there was a piece of lint on the beads. Since I already put them onto pipe cleaner and packaged them up, I wasn’t going to try balancing them on a dime again. Two of these will fit onto a dime, trust me.
I enameled these two disks last night and quickly threw these earrings together. I think they turned out kind of cute. The picture is deceiving. They are really tiny and petite.