Two Bracelets and One Necklace

I made these ladder bracelet for myself:

Not sure if I like the black leather with the amethyst stones but I didn’t like it with brown or natural leather either. That’s all the choices I had. I’ll wear it and if I don’t like it I’ll remake it with another color leather.

Then, a new type bracelet:

It’s a double wrap leather bracelet with drill rocks and other beads. I made it to fit my wrist and I so far, it’s pretty comfortable. I’m going to change how I do the connections from the rock piece to the leather on my next one. You didn’t think this would be the only one, did you?

I made the copper bail and riveted it to a glass bead. It’s strung on the same leather as the bracelet. The little stone is pyrite.

Published in: on May 11, 2012 at 1:01 pm  Comments Off on Two Bracelets and One Necklace  
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Copper Bail Pendants and Other Things

I started a ladder bracelet this week and never finished it. I’m finally getting tired of making them. Not that I won’t go back and revisit them later. I’m still making buttons for them and should have a good stock of them when I do get back to making them.

First up is a couple of glass pendants that I made a copper bail to hang them from.

I wish I could find bezel cups with higher sides. Just a tad bit higher would be a big help since I’m trying to hide a rivet inside the bezel cup.

I made some new beads to use for these copper bails last night.

The first one has frit and silver foil and silver glass in it. The other two are all transparent glass with a little heart.

More buttons that I made this weekend. I like making buttons….

My mom made these fabric origami boxes. Of course it wouldn’t be right not to embellish them with a glass bead or button.

Aren’t they cute?

Published in: on May 6, 2012 at 11:29 am  Comments Off on Copper Bail Pendants and Other Things  
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More Cabs

Still trying to get some glass cabs made so I can use them on the copper boxes. Here’s the ones I made this weekend.

The biggest ones are 3/4″ and the smallest one is about…well, I don’t know. They are small.

I’m not happy with this one. It’s 1 1/4″ big. Too big for the stuff I want to use it for and I don’t even like the design.

Then I made the black and white set of beads for my cousin’s quilt show. The other set, I use up all the ends of my glass rods. These beads are small so they work out well for short ends.

Published in: on March 12, 2012 at 8:22 pm  Comments Off on More Cabs  
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Buttons And Cabs

I made another set of buttons but decided to try something new. I need to work on my thin stringer control and I also need some small cabochons for my copper box beads. I decided to make a few. I still need more practice on my stringer control and coming up with nice designs but I think these are acceptable.

I purposely put the flower off center. Now I need to make about 10 more of these.

This is the set of buttons I made. I used pink heart murrini in the centers.

Published in: on March 5, 2012 at 7:57 pm  Comments Off on Buttons And Cabs  
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Box Bead with Cab Necklace

I added a glass cabochon to the top of this box bead. I want to make more of these, but maybe string more than one on a chain. This one looked kind of lonely so I added the copper heishi beads and it still looked plain. That’s when I added the ribbon and now it’s too cutesy. Not sure what I’m going to do with these yet. Back to brainstorming….

Published in: on February 3, 2012 at 6:58 pm  Comments Off on Box Bead with Cab Necklace  
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Possible Magnets???

These are the first two cabochons I made out of glass for possible refrigerator magnets. I made them on a cab mandrel so the profile of them is kind of flat and quite a bit larger than the push pins. I’m going to have to come up with some new designs for these.

Published in: on June 13, 2011 at 9:19 pm  Comments Off on Possible Magnets???  
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More Cabochons

Still working on making cabs…..

I guess I got stuck using the same colors, making these two cabs.  These are about the size of a quarter.

A couple more striped cabs.

Some little ones…..

Published in: on August 23, 2010 at 1:11 pm  Comments Off on More Cabochons  
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Cabochons

I’ve been trying to do double duty this weekend, making beads for an order and also trying to get some cabs made. Not having much success at either. I did get a chance to try my new cab mandrel which is a mandrel with a disk on the top. I think I like it. While the design on my cab didn’t turn out that well, I like the fact that the cab doesn’t have to have the bottom ground down. It’s perfectly flat, ready to be used.

I also made some that I have to grind the bottoms down. These are really small.

And here’s some striped cabs.

The right one looks like it has measles. Might try to make another without the dots on the heart…..

Published in: on August 22, 2010 at 11:51 am  Comments Off on Cabochons  
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Little Pendants

I made a few pendants out of some of the glass cabs I made. I was going to use them for a bracelet but these are so cute I want to make more. Now I wish I made a better assortment of cabs so I’d have more of a variety. It will take me a while before I can “borrow” someone’s flat lap grinder to grind more cabs down.

Sorry about the crappy picture. I just can’t seem to take very good pictures when things are too shiny.

Published in: on August 7, 2010 at 10:16 am  Comments Off on Little Pendants  
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Something Different

Yep, this is something totally new for me. I got together with some friends for a play day and we all worked on different projects. I got started working on bezel setting these glass cabochons that I made a while ago. When I came home, I finally got my micro torch hooked up so I could finish this bracelet. Now I can solder any time I want. I’m so excited!!

Published in: on July 31, 2010 at 5:25 pm  Comments Off on Something Different  
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