Leather bracelet with words
I'm still doing remedial metal work to catch up with the other two. This time I cut a rectangle of brass, stamped a few letters, gently rounded it and drilled two holes. I cut a length of leather that I had bought for purse handles (and never used) to work as a bracelet. The leather was too thick for the snaps I had on hand, but I shaved it down enough to pound the snaps through it.
The metal is currently just held on with thread, but I need to work out some sort of rivet or something.
Labels: bracelets, metalwork
ELEPHANT!!
So, in an effort to prove the adage of "practice makes perfect," I've dug out all my old
metalworking tools - or at least those I could locate with relative ease - and started to dust off my metalworking skills. It appears that I'll need to replace my files and upgrade my rotary tool, but I did manage to come up with a decent first effort. My intent is to make a couple more elephant figures and put them together (with jump rings?) into a bracelet. My sister suggested interspersing circular copper punchouts as if the elephants were playing with circus balls.
And I only snapped one saw blade making it =)
Labels: bracelets, copper, elephant, metalwork, saw
New Bracelets Up
More of our good stuff, finally photographed. Some (okay, all) of the descriptions are a little sparse, but we're busily working towards getting stuff finished for the show in Boston, so it will all be fleshed out later...see them
here.
Labels: bracelets
Connie Fox inspired Bracelet (Brangle?)
I recently made this bracelet after spending some time on Connie Fox's website (
www.conniefox.com). She has some fabulous bracelets/brangles made of wire,
so I thought I'd give one a shot. You can see some of the marks that the pliers
made on the wire which I don't like, but I'm not sure how to fix it (yet!). The stones
are Carnelian and Sodalite.
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