As you all know, I don’t just make one thing. So, here are more pins. I am working on other designs but these are fast and quick to make. The others take more time.
Copper and Bead Fibula Pins
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.
Pink Copper Bracelet
Yep, another bracelet. I’ll probably be making a few more. I made a bunch of different bead sets for them and am just getting around to assembling them.
Angel Bookmark
I’m back to making push pins so this is the only thing I finished this weekend. Another angel….
Another Bracelet
I found a piece of viking knit that I must have done a couple of years ago. So, it ended up in this bracelet. I’ve been trying to get some viking knit done all year but haven’t put a real effort into getting it done.
More Earrings And A Bracelet
I got several pieces enameled and used them for these earrings:
And still making tiny beads except not a pair of them. Just a random set of small beads. I made this bracelet out of some of them. I didn’t realize it would look so Halloween-y.
I was hoping it would be more red but not really dark red. Oh well….
Last Pair Of Tiny Beads
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.
New Pair Of Earrings
I finally got these done today. I had issues because the wire I used to attach the enameled pieces to the chain was a bit too thick. I’ll try them again (maybe) with thinner wire.
They are a dark red, it’s hard to tell. They dangle about 2 inches.
Tiny Bead Swap
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.
New Things
Well, kind of new. I bought everything to do copper enameling over two years ago and I’m finally getting around to doing it. Here are my first few pieces – still to be made into jewelry.
These are the first ones I did. The holey piece had more holes in it but I accidentally covered some up when I put enamel on the piece. It’s too hard to drill the enamel out so I just added another color on top of it to help hide the covered holes. I used a kiln to fire these pieces.
These pieces I torch fired, kind of. All the rippled round pieces were done with a torch and dipped in enamel. The two rectangles, I put one layer of color on in the kiln, then added clear with a torch. The copper wasn’t entirely covered up so some of the red on the sides shows through.
This piece was a test. First, it’s not solid copper. Not sure what’s in the middle but it was good enough to withstand the heat. I torch enameled this one using a layer of enamel, then I dipped it into glass frit – which is little chips of colored glass. This one went through an abuse test to see if there was any kind of incompatibility between the enamel and glass. I dropped it several times, stepped on it, and then banged the edges on concrete. The concrete did chip the enamel off the edges but I suspect any enameled piece would do the same thing. What I was looking for was a whole piece of enamel coming off and it didn’t. Yeah!!
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