Jewelry

I took out most of my bead collection, and the small supply of tools, for the first time in months.

I now have a pair of earrings that I'm happy with, except that I clearly need more practice, or maybe teaching and practice, in metal-bending stuff, on the basic level of making smooth loops in silver wire. I also have a wandering wire pendant or maybe tree ornament that I'm less sure of--too many of the beads wander to the bottom, because of gravity and how open the pattern still is. I may need more wire per unit area, or per bead. (If I actually wanted to make tree ornaments, I'd probably be going more into three dimensions, and using more bright colors: the darks here would, I think, get lost in the dark green of the tree. )

The earrings basically show off two very shiny beads I picked up at a shop somewhere; the wandering wire piece is a mix of Bead of the Month beads and Swarovski crystals; it's centered on a squarish black shiny bead, with some other black beads, and some shiny dark gray ones, in with the Swarovski.

Now I can consider year 5 BotMo, which I haven't signed up for because I wasn't using the beads I had. This isn't a "use them up before you buy more," it's that if I'm not using any, from elisem or elsewhere, it seemed silly to get more.

Jewelry

I took out most of my bead collection, and the small supply of tools, for the first time in months.

I now have a pair of earrings that I'm happy with, except that I clearly need more practice, or maybe teaching and practice, in metal-bending stuff, on the basic level of making smooth loops in silver wire. I also have a wandering wire pendant or maybe tree ornament that I'm less sure of--too many of the beads wander to the bottom, because of gravity and how open the pattern still is. I may need more wire per unit area, or per bead. (If I actually wanted to make tree ornaments, I'd probably be going more into three dimensions, and using more bright colors: the darks here would, I think, get lost in the dark green of the tree. )

The earrings basically show off two very shiny beads I picked up at a shop somewhere; the wandering wire piece is a mix of Bead of the Month beads and Swarovski crystals; it's centered on a squarish black shiny bead, with some other black beads, and some shiny dark gray ones, in with the Swarovski.

Now I can consider year 5 BotMo, which I haven't signed up for because I wasn't using the beads I had. This isn't a "use them up before you buy more," it's that if I'm not using any, from elisem or elsewhere, it seemed silly to get more.

going away for a bit

Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for a week in Montreal. I may skim LJ, and probably won't make time for a week or so of catch-up when I return, since I'll be concerned with catching up with cattitude, julian_tiger, and my job. I will be checking email from time to time.

[LJ is supposed to email me comments, so this post could serve as an answering machine, except that it's more public than those tend to be.]

going away for a bit

Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for a week in Montreal. I may skim LJ, and probably won't make time for a week or so of catch-up when I return, since I'll be concerned with catching up with cattitude, julian_tiger, and my job. I will be checking email from time to time.

[LJ is supposed to email me comments, so this post could serve as an answering machine, except that it's more public than those tend to be.]