I'm making bracelets lately and this one is made from brass jump rings bought from The Dragonfly Company.
and heres a close-up,
I saw an illustration in a bead magazine and thought I might make something similar.
The black crystals have small copper bi-cones on either side and the spacers are seed bead cubes. Here's a close-up thumbnail.
So I've spent my weekend playing Track Mania, a multiplayer online racing game. I say 'racing' but a good proportion of that I was enaged in the sort of activity as illustrated by the screenshot below ;-)
These beads are temporarily strung in the hope that they might be purchased and turned into a necklace. The string is 19.5 inches long and has a crimp at either end for now.
I bought the book "Great Wire Jewelry some time ago for the instructions on Viking Knit but liked the look of the Byzantine chainmaille in it. I kept thinking about making some and finally plucked up the courage to order silver jump rings from The Dragonfly Company.
Here's the finished article,
I made these beads some months ago but couldn't decide what to put with them. I finally decided to add smaller beads and swarovski crystals.
like to make odd shaped beads. This one is about 2.5 inches long.
and just developed as I played with the glass. The ability to make long stalactites of glass helps when making the legs of beasties or putting handles on blown glass vessels.
Here's a further development of the picture I posted a couple of days ago,
DH still thinks it looks like a donkey. I find the mouth difficult to do but the jaw is much better.