Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Projects!

Oh, the things I should be doing. You know. Those things I should be doing but I'm not? Yeah, those things. I'm not prepacking for my trip. I'm not working on my outline for my NaNovel. I'm not working on Chapter 13 of There's a Fine Line. No, I'm not doing any of that because...I'm making pendants.

In my defense, I only made the first pendants because I wanted to put them in a swap package for NaNo. Then, I discovered I'd mixed too much epoxy. Well, I can't just throw it out. It's jeweler's grade and slightly pricey ($12 for 30ml). So I went scrambling for something to use the leftover epoxy in.

My craft room looks like a tornado went through on the heels of a hurricane on a good day and it's not seen a good day in some time. So I'm poking and prodding and trying to come up with something to use this epoxy in when it hits me (not literally, thank goodness, or I'd never used the epoxy before it set!). I have a crap-ton of fired shell casings. I have a lovely set of natural quartz crystals. Why not combine the two for some groovy pendants? So I did. They're still drying (takes 24 hours) and they're going to need a really good clean and polish but here's a sneak preview (click the thumbnails for larger pics):

Beautiful Death 3, A WIP of a .45 caliber shell (silver color) set with a natural quartz crystal. The crystal is set using jeweler's epoxy. Beautiful Death 2, A WIP of a .45 caliber shell (silver color) set with a natural quartz crystal. The crystal is set using jeweler's epoxy. Beautiful Death, A WIP of a .38 caliber brass shell set with a natural quartz crystal. The crystal is set using jeweler's epoxy and slightly weighted with nickel BBs to add height to the crystal.
I know they look the same but, truly, there are three different ones. The first two are nickel and the last one is brass. I'm going to add some wire wrapping to the tops to create the bails but I think they'll look nice with a rather chunky chain. One of my Viking Weave ones should do nicely!

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    1. Thank you! I haven't had a chance to get back to them since I was stuck in NYC for a few days longer than planned and now it's NaNo, but soon, I'll finish them up and put them on chains. And wow, that was a run-on sentence from hell. O.o

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