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I have made shiny things. Go me.
Well, made one shiny thing and repaired another.
I blame thestage for talking about jewellery making and making me want to do it again.
I have a nice haematite bracelet that I bought in Camden a few years back but managed to break some time before I moved down here. It was a stupid way to break something: I was throwing an apple core across the road into a bank of ferns and nettles and stuff, and the elasticated bracelet flew off my wrist, arced through the are and landed in the road, smashing two of the beads. It's been stashed away all this time, unwearable, but I brought it with me to work today and at lunchtime went to the lovely bead shop around the corner and bought some pretty silver beads and some black elastic.
The bead shop used its shiny wiles on me and I came out also clutching a little bag of very pretty green sparkley glass beads.
I got back to work, did the pile of stuff waiting for me, and when I was caught up proceded to restring the haemetite beads, with the new silver ones, and turn the green beads into a bracelet. I actually bought too many of the green - my wrists are even smaller than I thought - so for now the bracelet has some dangly bits, but they're a bit annoying, so I might get some simple black beads and use the four spare greens to make another bracelet to go with the first. Odd numbers of bracelets are good, so I might have to make two more and have a set of three green and black shinies.
Anyway, the result is that for the grand sum of £2.16 I have repaired the bracelet that's been unwearable for about four years and made a new one, with four beads and enough elastic for one more piece laft over. Not bad.
This does mean, though, that I now want to make lots more jewellery. Mt parents are visiting this weekend, so I might ask me mum to try to find the supplies I left in my room back home - a few pots of pretty seed and rocaille beads and a reel of jewellery wire. Then there will be more shinies.
Well, made one shiny thing and repaired another.
I blame thestage for talking about jewellery making and making me want to do it again.
I have a nice haematite bracelet that I bought in Camden a few years back but managed to break some time before I moved down here. It was a stupid way to break something: I was throwing an apple core across the road into a bank of ferns and nettles and stuff, and the elasticated bracelet flew off my wrist, arced through the are and landed in the road, smashing two of the beads. It's been stashed away all this time, unwearable, but I brought it with me to work today and at lunchtime went to the lovely bead shop around the corner and bought some pretty silver beads and some black elastic.
The bead shop used its shiny wiles on me and I came out also clutching a little bag of very pretty green sparkley glass beads.
I got back to work, did the pile of stuff waiting for me, and when I was caught up proceded to restring the haemetite beads, with the new silver ones, and turn the green beads into a bracelet. I actually bought too many of the green - my wrists are even smaller than I thought - so for now the bracelet has some dangly bits, but they're a bit annoying, so I might get some simple black beads and use the four spare greens to make another bracelet to go with the first. Odd numbers of bracelets are good, so I might have to make two more and have a set of three green and black shinies.
Anyway, the result is that for the grand sum of £2.16 I have repaired the bracelet that's been unwearable for about four years and made a new one, with four beads and enough elastic for one more piece laft over. Not bad.
This does mean, though, that I now want to make lots more jewellery. Mt parents are visiting this weekend, so I might ask me mum to try to find the supplies I left in my room back home - a few pots of pretty seed and rocaille beads and a reel of jewellery wire. Then there will be more shinies.