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Holiday Metal Work

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.

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on December 26, 2011 at 7:59 pm Comments Off
Tags: Beads, Copper, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Necklace

Copper and Beads Bracelets

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.

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on December 11, 2011 at 8:50 pm Comments Off
Tags: Beads, Bracelet, Copper, Glass, Jewelry, Metal

Where Have I Been???

It seems like forever since I posted anything. I got done with my last craft show but still have some custom orders to finish up. These are a few things I made to sell at the craft show, just getting a chance to put them up now.

More bottle cap key chains. These are really fun.

Since I sold all the kokeshi doll pendants at my first craft show, I had to make more. These are the ones I used brass chains and findings.

Here’s the plain sterling silver ones. I think I like them with dangles better.

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on December 10, 2011 at 12:26 pm Comments Off
Tags: Beadables, Beads, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Necklace, Sterling Silver

Bangle Bracelet Sets

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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on November 20, 2011 at 10:36 am Comments Off
Tags: Bracelet, Copper, Enamels, Glass, Jewelry, Metal

Enameled Bangle Bracelet

I gave up on trying to enamel round wire. For some strange reason, the enamel on round wire keeps popping off. I mean likes shards of it just flying off. It’s the weirdest thing. I tried several different experiments and this happened every time. So, instead, I tried some flat copper wire tonight and I had no issues except where I solder the wire together. I used silver solder since it’s supposed to be compatible with this enamel but I got some crazing. I put it back in my torch flame and heated it up so the enamel pulled away from that spot. It doesn’t look bad but in future ones I’ll either have to fuse the copper together or overlap the piece and rivet it together.

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on November 13, 2011 at 9:35 pm Comments Off
Tags: Bracelet, Copper, Enamels, Glass, Jewelry, Metal

Enameled Wire Bangles

These are my first attempts at making wire enameled bangles. They weren’t totally successful. It’s hard to see in the picture. The enamel kept popping off in slivers, probably from thermal shock.

The bottom one is made with 6 gauge wire. It had the most enamel cracking off. I finally took my alundum stone and just filed down all the rough spots. Kind of made it look more organic. The top one is out of 8 gauge wire. The enamel stayed on better. I have more experimenting to do before I can sell these.

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on November 6, 2011 at 9:27 pm Comments Off
Tags: Bracelet, Copper, Enamels, Jewelry, Metal

Ginkgo Leaf Pins

I used some of the ginkgo leaf beads I made last week in these pins.

I kind of like them.

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on October 22, 2011 at 4:50 pm Comments Off
Tags: Beadables, Beads, Copper, Glass, Jewelry, Metal

More Hearts

I made another fibula heart pin. My friend wants to make some heart earrings and I remembered I made these smaller hearts before. I did a sample up so she could see it.