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.
Nothing too exciting. Just strung disc beads onto rubber cording and added a clasp.
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.
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.
I made these beads up earlier this year. I’m finally getting around to making them into necklace. These I used brass components.
This was my first attempt at making a pendant out of copper tubing. I used the wrong size tubing. This one is too thick so I couldn’t get the tabs push over all the way. I used one of the glass domes from the magnets I just made.
I took Melissa’s Porthole Charm class on Saturday. It was really fun. I’ll be making more in the future. Here’s my finished necklace:
It’s mostly copper and I used washi paper for the pictures in the charms. It didn’t work out that well. I need to seal the paper before putting the other side on. Lesson learned. I used some of my own glass beads and some I bought eons ago. The metal knots are coils of wire that are interlocked together. They are called Danish knots.
I finally finished the order for 10 necklaces. Here’s the bottle caps I made for them. These are a little bigger than my previous ones.
I’m just putting them onto ball chain along with some glass disk beads. I didn’t take pictures of all the necklaces since they are almost the same. Here’s a few of them.
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