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Midnight Pearl Mala - Cultured Pearls, Glass, Knotted Silk, Hemp tassel. |
Earth Talisman - Botswana Agate, Peach Moonstone, Picture Jasper. |
Forest Friend - Red Creek Jasper, wood |
Forest Creek - Rhyolite, Rutilated Quartz |
Stormy Shore - Amazonite, Abalone, Quartz, Cultured Pearl, Peruvian Blue Opal. |
The Greening Tree - Handmade Ceramic Tree Pendant, glass |
Scorched Earth - Purple Chalcedony, Carnelian |
Cosmic Owl - Lucite, Glass, Titanium coated Hematite |
Return of the Sun - Handmade Soldered Sunstone pendant, Iolite, Moonstone |
Tiny Talisman of Fire - Sunstone, Harlequin Quartz, Amber |
Making progress on the Muffin Tin Challenge. 6 pieces completed, 4 of them shown here. It's been far too stormy to get photos of everything in decent light.
7:11 am and still no sleep. I know I'm the one who will lose.
And the woman may be awestruck
And the woman may truly care
But the woman is so tired
So the woman disappears
My first completed piece from the Muffin Tin Challenge is an homage to the season that I'm calling 'Return of the Sun'.
Last year I went a little crazy and started making a bunch of pendants using the Tiffany technique of soldering. It's a technique used in stained glass, that can be used for making alllllll sorts of things, including jewelry. All it takes is some copper foil tape, lead free solder, a soldering iron, and whatever setup you prefer for your soldering work. You can Google and find tutorials, supplies, etc. It's a lot of fun, addictive as all get out, and I'm getting off topic here.
Back to the necklace. The sun is slowly creeping back to us in the northern hemisphere. I've had this Sunstone pendant sitting in my mess of a bead table for a year, looking at me, shimmering, just waiting. So I tossed it in to one of the muffin cups and went with my gut.
I had just recently gotten some beautiful, untreated, rustic Iolite coins that have some shimmery red/orange inclusions. This often gets called "Bloodshot Iolite" and looks like a blue version of Sunstone. LOVE it! Perfect companion for the pendant. Then, what's perfect to balance the bold sun? Some Moonstone. Wrap it on some copper. Keep it simple and light. Finish with copper chain. Voila!
Muffin Tin Challenge piece #1 - ' Return of the Sun' complete.
I've been gone for a while, doing my thing over in Facebook land mostly. But, I'm thinking it might be time to get back to this blog thing. Especially now that it's easy to do from my phone!
I'm starting this new year by playing along with Humblebeads' Muffin Tin Challenge 2017. After spending the past several months in creating for the Holiday shopping season mode, I can now get back in to creating for the heck of it mode. Which means I have lots of random bits laying around that need finishing. Heather's challenge is a great way to kick start my creative momentum.
Check it out here > http://humblebeads.blogspot.com/2017/01/muffin-tin-challenge-2017.html?m=1