These are the beginnings of my Sea Glass Barrettes. I am still planning on doing some wire wrapping on them. I used man-made sea glass for these. The real stuff can be hard to come by in the larger pieces and I really don’t want to use them to play with. I have some of the real small pieces of sea glass that I got off of e-bay. I will be using those once I get the wire wrapping down. I may also combine the tinies with some of the small shells that I recently collected.
I really like the look of the dark blue glass. I may try using gold wire on the greens.
I finally got busy and finished up some of the pieces that I had baked a while ago. These earrings are made from the spotted lily cane that I made following the lesson in Polymer Clay Cafe. I have also made a number of pins and barrettes out of this cane. I have a couple of larger flowers to turn into necklaces once I figure out how I want to string them. I am leaning to using cording or even a plain chain with just the flower to focus on. I think that beads will make it to busy.
This set is made with a polymer clay focal bead. It has tiger eye ovals, colored freshwater pearls and glass beads. It is also the first piece that I have done with something other then silver. I liked how the copper findings looked with the focal bead when I first made it and decided to use them on this set. The necklace is also my first double stranded piece. I made it so that the strands can be worn separately. It took a lot of figuring out on my part but I really like how it turned out.
This is the bracelet that goes with the set. The earrings are the same in both pictures. I am still thinking that I will keep this set. Every time that I look at it, I like it even more!
I recently got some wonderful butterfly canes off of e-bay from Randomstar. I finally got a chance to make something with them.
The top one is a pin. The bottom one is a small barrette. I think that I may keep them both! Randomstar did a beautiful job making these canes. I will have to keep an eye on the canes that are on e-bay. These are very beautiful and well made.
I have had more fun with making canes and made what I think are really nice barrettes.
The orange ones are really nice. I really like the yellow ones. The color change in them is very hard to see in the picture but is eye catching in life. They seem to be real to me. I am going to try to re-create the look in other colors as well.