Saturday, July 20, 2019



Ok, so last time was catching up on worktables and showing finished items. This time I'll share the next one from June when I finally got back to work.

The work was almost complete, unlike a lot of my tables where it's mostly all the component pieces I hope to use in a half formed design idea lying around. Most of the components for these pieces are from B'sue Boutiques.


This is a piece of 'busted bling' originally part of a 1928 Jewelry bracelet, I think
Decided on one large pearl dangle and some smaller pearl embellishments
using vintage Japanese faux (glass) pearls
For this one I only needed to finish
stringing the necklace and put on the clasp. Pewter cat charm from
B'sue by 1928 collection. 
Final piece got the little chain fancied up with B'sue chocolate brass bows and Swarovski crystal.
Resin cab, chocolate brass setting and bail from B'sue. I took a copper chain and coated it with
Swellegant Bronze to match the chocolate brass - took multiple applications and lots of finishing
clean up work (the coating sometimes fills up the tiny holes in the chain and has to be poked out)
I really love this Lucite resin bead! I used some tiny
Czech glass beads and Swarovskis on the chain
and on the stacked bead pendant.






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Saturday, July 6, 2019

Time to start catching up from my last post! Amazed that it's been over a month - the time has really flown past!

WhedonCon was a lot of fun and the booth looked great. I had a fabulous corner spot that gave me a lot of area for the customer. I had space for three tables!


The last post here was a Wednesday work table at the end of May and I didn't find the time to post again afterwards. So as a reminder, here's the worktable:

Here are some of the finished pieces from that table:

Added porcelain roses and faux pearls for extra contrast
Swarovski crystals and matching chocolate brass bows
The worktable only showed one set but I made these and several more. The design uses Swarovski cube beads, "squaredelle" rhinestone spacers and a combination of beadcaps joined together to form the balloon shapes.
This one I just needed to add chain.
I puzzled over how to connect the pendant to the chain and
remembered the cool connector piece but didn't want boring jump-rings
so I used antique copper wire to wrap the two pieces together.
I think it adds a really special touch,

Last one - I finished the bead wraps using matte gold 'buckwheat' beads, seed beads, Swarovski and Czech glass for the necklace. Simply attached that and added a clasp. It was nearly complete when I posted the WTW.



There are a couple pieces on that table I'm still working on - hope to post them soon, so do come back and visit!
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