Stones, beads...

Supermoon! Huge excitement around the world :) I tried to take good photo for 2 night in row, unfortunately one of them was very cloudy and yesterday I realized my phone and my camera are not good enough for taking professional looking night photos.

Pic taken with my phone :)

I'm still bit lazy with wire wrapping, hmmm maybe I just don't have stones or beads which give me this: 'wow! this one will look great like that!' factor, if you know what I'm trying to say here.

Sometime ago I found rather rough piece of amethyst in kind of arrow shape and was thinking very hard how to wrapped it to make pendant. Result of this below:

I think I like working with stones more then with beads. Possibly because their irregularity pushing me to think, how to reach result I want. 

This stone I found on the local beach during Summer, I like it cause is in the same time smooth and bit rough, and seems to contain two different 'rocks/minerals' in it.

Here little heart with amethyst beads I made yesterday. I think I'm good with making heart shaped pendants :)

I have really hard thinking about gifts for my Sneaky Santa partner - working on something special, hope that will be nice surprise...

Till next post friends!

Half-hard or soft wire?

Good question :)

From my practicing I can say: half-hard for learning and later on for frames, soft for trying, experimenting and enjoying of making beautiful pieces :)

Really!

Last week I bought soft wire, but when waiting for it, I was still playing with the rest of half-hard I had.

Results:

Single green-purple bead in triangle shaped frame - pendant

Free-form green-purple earrings

Triangle shaped pendant with 2 green-purple beads.

Yesterday I received my wire and almost straight away I took it in my hands to make something. What do you think about pendants I made so far?

Swirly with creamy glass pearl

Blue crackle beads and porcelain grey bead combo

Light pink beach stone

Purple marbled glass bead and purple glass bead combo.

Pendants are not massive, just around 2.5 cm - the smallest and about 4 cm the biggest, but that's good size for start I think :)

I love wire wrapping!!!

Hiya!

Oh yes! I really do!! :)

I don't remember when I made so much in so short time :)

I have my copper wire since Thursday, so four days and I made already 9 pairs of earrings, 5 pendants and practiced how to make words from wire.

Free form wired jewellery is something what really catch my fancy:) I even wear one of my new makes on Friday and was complimented :)

Two of my first makes you can find in previous post, here pics of rest of them :)

Earrings:

free form with green seed beads

teardrop shaped with blue crackle beads

my first ever caged earrings - marbled red

long green free form

plain free form

little flowers :)

triangles with blue seed beads :)

Pendants:

Little boat with crackle bead

Shell and green sea glass - found on the beach

donut pendant - handmade ceramic bought ages ago from Bulgaria or Romania :)

coils on heart shaped stone found on the beach

simple fitting for small oblong beach pebble

my first wired word :)

I still have lots to learn and lots to try, but I'm sure now that I found something I can be good at :)

So please keep your fingers crossed - and I'll try my best to make more pieces to show you soon ;)