One night at the beginning of January (I made so much over the Christmas break it's going to take me a while to show it all!) I felt in a jewellery mood. I have a little plastic box with WIPs, half finished projects and components I've bought for a particular design. This one took my fancy. It was a bag of different sized lucite flowers and a donut sieve. I should have taken a photo of the sieve, but here's what it looks like.
My first experiments with threading a size 10 seed bead and a flower onto a headpin didn't seem to be working so I switched to 0.4mm wire and wove in and out, that worked much better though the wire snapped a lot! The photos I took were terrible, so the one above is blurry and the one below is in the distance!
I've glued a brooch back on so I can wear it on my cardigan. It had been snowing outside when I took the photos so it was all a bit wet. The bunny run is the best place to get pictures in these conditions, and it also has the bonus that you can play a game of "spot the bunny poo"! Not a difficult game, mind...
Next out of the box was a coil of bracelet sized memory wire and some miracle beads. The purple and lilac beads are 3mm strung in a 3-3-1-1- pattern. I cannot for the life of me get a decent photo of miracle beads which seem to glow from within so go here to see what they really look like.
This red and bronze one is strung with black fimo heshi disks in between. The miracle beads are 4mm and I think I prefer this size.
Recently I saw and pinned this bracelet and knew I wanted to make it. Please take a look at the link, she uses Miracle beads. I used them too but can't get the colour or shine across in my crappy photos. They really are amazing beads, you should see them when the light shines on them, they glow.
I used 3 coils of bracelet size memory wire. Memory wire does what it says on the tin. It keeps its round shape. It's made from steel so is VERY hard to cut and to work. Making the loops on each end was very difficult and they are not neat.
It is strung with 3 colours of small Miracle beads and one large with size 8/0 black seed beads in between.
Maybe when my lightbox arrives I can try taking another photo....
