Hoops and Hubei Turquoise Copper Earrings

 

Hoops and Hubei Turquoise Earrings

Welcome to my site.  Today I have a fun pair of earrings to post. These earrings are made using copper and Hubie turquoise beads. The circle with the loop on the top measures 1″ long. This does not count the ear wire. These earrings are a nice size for those who want to have a dangle but don’t want a super long or large one. Large enough to show off but small enough to not overtake your look.

These earrings feature copper ear wires, hammered copper hoops, copper clover shaped elements and a handmade balled copper headpin with Hubei turquoise and copper beads that dangle in the front of the clover elements By clicking  here  you can be taking directly to my web store. 

Thank you for taking your time to stop in and see today's creation,

Wanda

Flowers and Pearls, Earrings

 

Welcome to my site.  Today I have a fun pair of earrings to post. These earrings are made using copper and freshwater beads. Saturday was a gorgeous and unseasonably warm day so I set up camp in my garage and torched copper wire to create headpins. After putting them in pickle and then tumbling them I had a huge snarl of wires. I had to straighten them out and then I counted them. I torched 350 wires. I'm set now for a while. You an see a pair of them at the end of the pearls. Those little bumps are the balled copper to create the head pin (fun, huh? I LOVED making them). These earrings are a nice size for those who want to have a dangle but don’t want a super long or large one. Large enough to show off but small enough to not overtake your look. The components measure 1/2" not including the ear wires.  By clicking here you can be taken to my web store. 

Thank you for taking your time to stop in and see today's creation,

Wanda

Sterling Silver with Black Obsidian Stones, Earrings

 I wanted to share with you a pair of earrings I made using sterling silver and black Obsidian tube beads. 

These were very fun to make, including the ear wires. This is the first year I've made ear wires. In the past I would just purchase them but I'm trying to make everything that I can by hand.  

You can check these out in my web store by clicking here.  

Thank you for taking a peek at my latest creation,
Wanda

Copper Bracelets

 I actually have two to show you. The knotted one that I had been talking about and a daintier one. The daintier one came from using the messed up pieces from making the first one. I'd get the coil backwards or the ends would poke out after hammering. I'd end up with scrap. But being such a scrap user with stamping, I learned to use the scrap copper to make something too.  So, here's the two bracelets. I still need to file any rough spots and then put them in the tumbler for a half hour to smooth out any imperfections and to shine them up!  Then they'll go in my web store.  Check back in a few days to find the individual links to these.

I found the patterns to make both of these on YouTube.

Thanks for looking,
Wanda

Hammered Ring Silver-filled 21" Necklace

I made this necklace was made using 18 gauge Silver-filled wire. Silver filled is in the middle of the silvers. There’s silver plating that usually chips off and exposes the base metal under it. Silver-filled is a more reasonable priced silver option. There is the base metal but it’s got many layers of silver over it. And then you have solid sterling silver. Silver-filled is not as soft as solid sterling silver and can withstand a bit more handling.

The larger textured rings are just a bit smaller than a dime. They measure 15.4mm.

This silver-filled necklace measures 21″ long and has a sterling silver lobster clasp. Each ring was soldered, hammered, textured and joined together by soldering a handmade jump ring to each large ring. It was buffed and then tumbled to a bright shine.

It will be shipped in a safe container within a bubble envelope and it will also be in an anti tarnish bag.

Shipping is based on zip code and there is not handling or added shipping fees.

You can purchase this necklace in my secure web store at www.JustOneMoreBead.com 

Thank you for taking your time to stop by and have a look,

Wanda

Beaded Jellyfish Pendant Necklace

Welcome to my site.  Today I would like to share a beaded jellyfish that I made. What was most amazing was that I actually had the beads here to make it. I have zillions of beads but when it comes to making a project, I often don't have the right size or color. I did have to improvise a bit on the very top of the jellyfish because my opening was a bit too big, but I just kept repeating the reducing pattern until the opening was big enough for the headpin.

This jellyfish was made using glass pearls I had actually gotten at Michael's during one of their big sales. I liked them because they were a rainbow or maybe AB glazed white pearls. There were four strands on the hang tag in various sizes. They were very pretty. Yup, pretty sells it for me!!

The pattern listed pink pearls for the smaller ones but I didn't have any pink. But I did have the correct size in cream, so that is what I used. I make what I had work because what I had was the right size. I am trying not to order more stuff I don't need before I try using what I have and so far I'm doing pretty good. I will never use up my bead stash but I'm sure trying to make what I have work with what I want to make.

The link to the pattern is no longer available but there's other types of jellyfish you can make by looking in Youtube. I will have this necklace up for sale in my web store. I wanted to make one, I didn't know what I was going to do with it though. So I decided to sell it and move on to another project I have already started.  You can see it in my secure web store by clicking  here.  

Thank you SO much for stoping in to see my latest creation,
Wanda 

Silver-filled Inlaid Turquoise Ring

Today I finished a ring I started before Christmas. I had to keep putting it away due to usage of my workroom and worktables.  All week, except Tuesday I have been working on it and this is the finished results.  I'm okay with it.  It could use some more work but I can't do any more to it because I'm afraid if I sand anymore on it I will be down to the brass in the silver-filled piece.  I had originally started out making a copper one. It is ready for the stone but I decided to jump into some silver.  After completing this one to  where it is, I am going to venture into making one of sterling silver, not silver-filled.  It will cost a lot more but it will be worth it.  And now that I know what I'm doing, it shouldn't take as long to make either. Unless I have to put stuff away every time I get going on it! I need a whole room just for this type of work!

When I started making the ring it was a size 8 and when I finished, it was still a size 8!  I did something right there!!!

This was fun to make and I would like to make some inlaid pendants some time too.  And of course I will share them with you once I've made them.

I will post the copper one once it's done too.

Thank you for taking a look,

Wanda