Embossing detail

I took more photos of the embossed earrings and pendant in sunlight:




I'm still lovin' 'em! The downside...now I want to design my own embossing plates. Kinda like I want my own plastic and wood laser cutting machine! Maybe one day I'll have tons of free space, time, and money.

Back here in reality, if anyone is interested in earrings or just the brass elements themselves like these, please let me know! I would be happy to make more.

Crafting Components

I gotta say, I really enjoy making components rather than a Great Big Finished Product sometimes.

Today I made the long brass charms for these earrings. It was satisfying to emboss, hammer, shape, polish and buff a relatively boring piece of metal into something pretty interesting.




I used some garnet on the tops, there. I should have taken these photos in daylight to better show them off, but I was too impatient (imagine that).


I should take a photo wearing them, they're dang dangly!

I also tried combining the above techniques with letter stamping. I want to revisit it with more time to think about it before trying it out. It has lots of fun potential!

Snowed in Day 1: thinking about rain storms

While snowed in today, I thought a little bit about this hunk of crocheted tube I've had sitting around for months. It was all one big experiment: see what multicolored/variegated thread would do with clear beads, plus trying to find bead caps for the ends that fit well but aren't hideous (I have yet to find any that aren't hideous).



After staring at it for a minute, my mind went to Mixko and their rainbow/rain cloud jewelry. It's lovely!

I thought up my own busy way to make something inspired by my rainbow colored piece. Now...to actually do it.

Invites done!

I would blog about them, but Kathleen has done a proper job of that already.


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