I finally got this necklace done. It was another learning experience. Some things didn’t turn out the best but I’ll know next time.
It’s all copper except for the beads and the chain. I couldn’t find any all copper snake chain. This was the closest I could find. Fortunately it holds up well for soldering. It’s a long necklace, well, long for me but it wouldn’t have the drapey look if I made it shorter.
I had these left over copper bangles from my unsuccessful attempts at enameling them. I decided to wrap fine silver wire around them and melt the silver in partially. I was going for a rustic look and the do look rustic.
The one on the bottom is wrapped with a thin gauge of copper wire before wrapping it with fine silver wire. I thought the copper wire would give it more texture without the added cost. The top one is just wrapped with fine silver. These are really easy and quick to make.
This is my attempt at making a bracelet using the box beads. This isn’t perfect, I learned a lot of things not to do on this project. Still it’s good enough for me to wear. Hopefully my next one will be better.
This mostly copper except the silver bezel cups for the cabs.
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….
I finally got them done!! I still want to make more. They are addicting. I was to try adding other design elements to them. I’m still designing the necklace these beads will go into. Hopefully it won’t take me forever to get it done.
The fronts and backs have different etched or embossed designs on them. I’ve lined the beads up so all the holes are horizontal in the picture.
I’ve been working on a couple of new things. Copper box beads for one thing. I’ve assembled several of them but still have to patina them and give them a good tumble to shine them up. In the meantime, here’s some of the copper I etched.
Hope everyone had a nice holiday. My sister is here and she wanted to make a porthole pendant. She has never worked with most of the equipment, nor soldered so it’s been doing all the teaching. Here’s her first two pendants:
Both porthole pendants are the same cat, Sonny.
Then she had to make tags for her other kitties:
Pictures are of the front and back of the tags.
Then, I made this:
It’s a picture of my kitty, Marley. The picture is of the front and back of the pendant. It’s a little different than the ones my sister made. They have mica covering the picture and the whole thing is held together with wires threaded through the pendant.
I also finished up this one I started before my sister arrived:
I’ve used this picture before but I liked it so much that I made another one.
These are for an order from the craft show. I never know what size to make bracelets as everyone’s wrist is a different size. I usually make things that fit my wrist and that doesn’t cover “one size fits all”. So, I made these in a different size. I’ll bring my pliers just in case I have to make adjustments when I deliver them to the buyer.
The last one I made because I had the beads and components already out. I’ll show the buyer so she has a couple different designs to choose from.
I sold all the enameled bangle bracelet sets I made at the craft show. Yeah!! But that meant I had to make more for gifts. These are two I finished yesterday.
I really like making these. It’s a surprise how the colors are going to come out. I use a couple of opaque colors and three or four transparent colors and I never know what I get when I layer them. When I have more time, I want to make some wider ones that will be riveted together.
I finished up some more enameled and copper wire bracelets. I’m going to sell them as sets. I think they look good together.
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