FINALLY!!! I am making an update to most of my latest projects.
First is Griselda -
She's almost done except for her shoes! And I have one more "bendi doll" to make her a friend!
Next: Purple and Yellow bead embroidered cuff bracelet -
I made all the glass cabochons, including the face. Some folks think it's kind of creepy because of the face. It's 3" wide and I really like it!
AND....Purple Amethyst bracelet -
Amethyst is my favorite gemstone. This bracelet is three pretty amethyst donuts and some of my glass cabochons. Only problem with this bracelet is that the magenta-colored beads had a metallic finish which is coming off. Underneath, the beads are just clear glass.
And last but not least - Rose bracelet
All the cabochons in this bracelet are made from paper clay...yup, that's right paper clay. They look like ceramic, but they are not. The paper clay is originally white. I colored the cabochons with Sharpie Markers and finished them with a gloss liquid that was made for polymer clay.
I'm sure there are a few more projects I haven't mentioned. There are two cuff bracelets, a red one and blue one that I'm looking for.
I'm trying to make time for a rag rug that I've started to weave. I really need to retire!
HA! I will not be blowing off the month of October on my blog. After all, it's my favorite month...my anniversary AND birthday...AND in 2015 my retirement month. Unless, of course, the Mayans are correct and the world ends in 2012. I'll be totally ticked off if that happens!
Totally missed the month of August! It went by so fast! By Monday, I'll post some photos of progress and finishes.
I have some progress pictures and a finish to talk about today. First, my progress pictures:
This is Grisella my Nifty Fifty doll. I'm making her to celebrate my 5th decade. She is supposed to be done by October. I think she might be. I was a bit stymied about her hair, but finally decided what should look like.
You can see that she has two butterfly "tattoos"...ahem...well...in strategic areas. And her hair is a natural do o of bead strings and square beads.
I've started adding garters...wooohooo.....and will make a pair of peyote stockings for Grisella.
And here is my finish:
This is my third bead embroidered cuff bracelet. I used three dichroic cabochons that I bought from the internet and used all kinds and shades of brown beads. It looks really rich.
Another finish! I finished my first bead embroidered cuff.
I used three dichroic triangle-shaped cabochons and lots of vintage beads, Swarovski crystals, and other stuff.
I really liked making this cuff and I'm definitely going to make more!
AND, I've had some paper clay hanging around for some time now. I haven't had much of an idea of what to do with it. So, I decided to make cabochons with it using some of my polymer clay molds. Here's what I came up with:
I really like working with cabochons...there's so much you can do with them.
Some of these guys will end up on cuffs, some as pendants for necklaces.
Finally, I have a finish to a project I've been working on for months. I finished my 1920's Flapper off-loom project. Here's a picture:
It is done in 3 drop peyote. I made it from a copyright free design that I tweaked and then colored. I'm going to get a shadow box for her and hang her somewhere.
This is a picture of my Edwardian girl Loom piece. It's hard to tell what it will look like from this picture, but it will be nice. I have about 98 more rows to go. I've made quite a bit of progress on her this week. She's destined for my mom's house.
Still working on Griselda and my bead embroidered cuff. Maybe pictures of them tomorrow.
Got some nifty new glass fusing molds on Thursday last week. So, I brushed on kiln wash, filled them with glass frit and got them ready for the kiln. Saturday morning I put in the first mold which was a neat moon figure. Saturday afternoon I took out the mold when it was done, only to find that the glass had cracked rather badly, but not irreparably. I put in the second mold, a sun. Sunday morning I took out the sun mold to find it had broken badly during firing. The mold had literally crumbled. That was quite disappointing.
I put the moon mold back in with the glass repaired and refired it to fix the broken areas. I took the moon out after about 8 hours to find that the mold had also broken, probably in the first firing which is why the glass cracked in the first place.
I've contacted the online store I bought the mold from and asked for replacements. Hopefully I'll hear from them soon.
So, bad weekend at the kiln. I did, however, get some work done on my bead loom project, an off loom project and some bead embroidery.
I'll get some pictures posted this afternoon.
