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Matching Sets!
19 months ago
I make a lot of earrings and, I’ve made a simple bracelet or two, but I really want to start making necklaces as well. Matching sets rock!
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How to make a necklace
It made me
feel creative
 How I did it: Years ago I saw a teddy bear necklace in a vintage jewelry boutique in Milan. I planned to buy it as soon as I got my paycheck but in a few days it was gone...
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How I did it: First, i cut the sheet silver to make the camper and door. then i pierced the windows with a drill press, and sawed and filed them to shape. the wheel is made from a hammered piece of granulated silver, the tow bar is square wire. I sweat-soldered them all on with hard solder and a propane/oxygen torch, then soldered a bail on the back, handmade from square wire. the tire is blackened with liver of sulphur, and burnished at the rim. Read how I did it…
stickycarnival is finally registered for her teaching course
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How I did it: A bead shop opened in my town and i passed it everytime i went to the train station but i never ventured in and then it was summer time and i decided to go in and investigate how much it would cost to buy them and i ended up buying a whole lot of beads and the man in the shop taught me how to make them with the special wire and how to tie the know at the end with nail varnish really good Read how I did it…
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super fun!
2 years ago
I went to a craft store today with two friends, and bought beads… and pliers… and a plasticy wire to thread them on… and crimps… and a clasp.
strung it all together, and now i have a nice necklace!
The only problem is not i want to go back, buy more beads, make more necklaces for myself, learn to make cool earings, and then make some necklaces for friends!
My next project
2 years ago
I have all the beads: silver dragonflies, dark glass seed beads, some silver spacers. it should be really pretty when I’m done…
I need larger mounts!
2 years ago
I need to get silver art clay (99.9% pure silver, burns to pure silver when fired with a butane torch) and make a mount for the tourmilated quartz I have, which is oval shaped, flat on the bottom, 1×1.25 inches in length and width, and looks like grass coming up through fog. I want it on a beaded necklace of moss agate and more tourmaline. It will look like fog on the swamps of my hometown. The combination of these stones, metaphysically, encourages communication with cthonic things.
Using firemountaingems.com to buy the beads. I don’t do glass or plastic beads.
