Saturday, November 20, 2010

More Creativity On The Loose

I've been working on some projects.

I made a necklace awhile back, but I don't think I posted any pictures. It's kind of simple, but it was my first foray into working with clay and making beads. The three brown beads are clay, and the strip with studs around the middle bead is also clay (well, the studs are mini-brads).


That was nice as far as it went. But I've made another one.





I picked up that center piece - the heart - at a craft store one day a few weeks ago just because it was cool. I was planning to make a skirt, and had gotten the material for it - shades of brown - and decided that I wanted to wear a brown turtleneck with it, then use that focal piece to build a kind of large, rather simple necklace to wear with it - it all seemed like it would go so well together.

So that's what I did. All of this necklace is from store-bought parts except the twisted brown and tan beads - I made those.


I like this one a lot better. I'm sure over time my skill and creative 'eye' for things will improve. But in the end, all that really matters is whether I like it ... I'm the one making it (and wearing it, for now anyway ...).

In other clay news, I was making my first steampunk Christmas ornament, and finally finished it today, and put it in to bake - and promptly burned part of it! I'm not sure what happened, as the oven hadn't even heated up all the way yet. I hadn't moved the oven racks or anything, and I've been baking my other pieces in the same exact spot, so - I'm kind of baffled by that.

Oh well. I took it out to cool, I'll trim away the burned bits, try to re-fashion it a bit, re-bake, then post pictures. It'll be fine. It was mostly a practice piece anyway. And I need it - the practice - this type of work is kind of complex and tricky, so I suspect it's going to take a lot of practice and trial-and-error, and it'll be awhile before I'm turning out anything really stellar. At least a couple weeks. ;o)

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