committing jewelry

[firecat]

While I was in Inverness recently I got out my beading box for the first time since before last Xmas. I felt pretty out of practice with the pliers (and had forgotten to bring two pairs of chain nose pliers, which makes things a lot easier) but over the course of a day I got back into the swing of it and made a necklace and two pendants.


Here they are:



The necklace is made out of colored wire of various gauges and something called "Pineapple Quartz" which is no doubt really glass. It's milky with a very slight hint of yellow (you can't see the yellow on the blue background) and furnace glass. It also includes three lampworked beads that I got via elisem's Beads of the Month program. The beads were labeled "Mo Beads" or maybe it was "Moe Beads." Here are some not very good pix of them:





This pendant uses more of the colored wire and furnace glass, and a piece of abalone:



This pendant includes chips from three different strands - clear quartz, fluorite, and turquoise or howlite or jade, not sure which. It also includes a Green Girl Studios "octoball" made out of silver, also acquired from elisem. The chip hedgehog is attached to some silver chain I had lying around and I made the visible chain from silver coated copper wire. I am inordinately proud of this pendant.

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

mo beads, because mo made them!

i really like the pendant. the visible chain is gorgeous.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Pretty! Which is the mystery stone -- the light green, the aqua, or the darkish blue? I might be able to take a guess, although nothing on there looks like howlite (even dyed) to me.

[firecat]

all three actually. and you're right it's not howlite, now that i have the strand in front of me.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

La on them.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

All lovely, but I especially like the necklace. It reminds me of what I see labeled as "sea glass" - originally fragments of broken bottles, etc., washed up on beaches after having been tumbled around by the sea, now mostly manufactured in a tumbler. In any event, the irregular polygons make an unusual and fetching necklace.

Lucky you to have had that three-day retreat ...

[firecat]

Thanks!

I try to take a retreat every year...they are very soul nourishing.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

can't be howlite -- that's not transparent. neither is turquoise. jade, not that much either. it might be simply blue glass.

whatever it is, it's pretty! and the octoball is cute.

[firecat]

Yep, that's likely. Thanks! It really is cute.

[snippy]

Nice! Your hedgehog is the first one I've seen that I actually like--Elise's don't tickle my fancy.

[firecat]

Thanks! I'm curious what you see as the difference between mine and hers, if it can be put into words.

[snippy]

What I can come up with: I like your spiral/loop endings. I like the clear-ish beads on the outside. I like the rhythm of the shapes and angles of your bead choices together. I like the overall shape and proportions of the piece (the hedgehog part alone, that is--I also like the entire construction though). I like the colors and the banding on some of the stones.

[firecat]

Thank you!

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Those are gorgeous pieces. Well done. :)

Gessi

[firecat]

Thanks!

hedgehog

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I am not usually much of a hedgehog person but I like, a lot, the way the colors are working through this one.

The curled up beads are very cool. I had a dragon arrive and was carrying it around for a couple of weeks before I sent it on.

Re: hedgehog

[firecat]

Thanks! I have a dragon one too. Maybe I'll make it a hedgehog out of fire-colored chips.

[caprine.livejournal.com]

Delightful! I particularly like the mo bead with the rosy bumps on it.

[firecat]

Me too. I never used to like those bumpy lampworked beads until I tried to make one and discovered how hard they are to make (well, they're easy to make, but they're VERY hard to make WELL).

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Very, very pretty!

[firecat]

Thanks!

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

What pretties! Those pendants are particularly nifty. Go you!

[firecat]

Thank you!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Really nice work.

[firecat]

Yay, thanks!