I’ve been working on this set of beads like forever it seems. I thought I had enough made but didn’t, made more, still didn’t have enough and finally, I got around to make more so I could finish this necklace.
It’s longer than the ones I usually make for myself. It’s 23″ long and has sterling silver clasps and findings.
This is the last one I plan to make for a while. I need to move on to other things.
Yeah, I’m not that great at drawing. My drawings are very cartoony. I wish I could do something more life like. I used another ceramic shard found on the shores of Lake Erie. I didn’t want to use green but I guess there aren’t too many turquoise colored plates in Lake Erie.
It seems like I’ve been working on this necklace forever. I was making the square chips and ran out of glass. It’s hard to tell from the crappy picture that I’m using filagrana rods of glass. It’s colored glass encased in clear. I used four different shades of blue in this necklace. The little beads between the chips are clear.
It’s more striking in person and quite chunky.
I wrote up the instructions on how I use colored pencils on metal so I thought I’d do some instructions on how to set the piece. 
How it looks from the front.
Here it is from the side.
Yes, another colored pencil pendant. It’s a lot of fun making the colored pencil pieces. Then I have to do something with them. This one is similar to the last one with a ceramic shard bezel set in it.
I know it’s green. It wasn’t supposed to be green. But that’s what I had sitting in my colored pencil box and it was on top. And it goes well with yellow. The other side of the ceramic shard was pink and that’s why I bought it. I was surprised the other side was green and it worked out perfect for this pendant.
This was going to be a bracelet. That was before I goofed up the placement of the end caps. Instead of tearing it apart, I changed it into a necklace.
I added another piece of leather cording onto the other side, and viola, it’s a necklace. I did add the dangle after as it seemed kind of plain. I kind of like the mish mash of different beads. I might make another necklace all out of different beads. Great way to use up extras.
I took one of the colored pencil pieces I made last weekend and finished it into this pendant:
Front View
Side View
It’s a big piece, 3.5 inches long by 1 1/4 inches wide. The bezel set piece is a ceramic shard picked up from Lake Erie that I bought from a seller on Etsy. I ground down the bottom so it would sit right in the bezel. The colored pencil piece is raised with crimp beads. They are great to use, just need to find the right size to fit the escutcheon pins. No need to cut tiny pieces of tubing anymore. A real plus!!
I finished another one. I really like the colored pencil piece but I did a bad job on the silver part and had lots of issues that I ran into. Mostly because I didn’t plan well. I’m not one to draw things out, I design as I go and it usually works out but in this case, not so much. One of the rivets got too close to the bail and I had a hard time hammering it without bending the tube bail. Then I used a dull drill bit on the bottom hole. It kind of mushed the silver around and left a rim. It’s hard to fix problems like these after I set the colored piece and sometimes working on it further just makes it worse.
The colored piece is raised off the silver 1mm. It’s hard to tell in the picture. I didn’t take a picture of the back as it’s too ugly to show. Guess I’m keeping this one for myself. Bummer. 🙂
I finally got enough black and white beads made to make this necklace. I decided to use sterling silver in this piece as it just makes black and white look so much better. It’s challenging working with just two colors, along with clear. I really wanted to add another color but resisted as I think these two colors look so striking by themselves.
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