Current as of 6-17-2012

Been kinda busy with work. Not feeling so hot today. Will post most current pictures. 

 Stamped Domino pendants waiting for glaze.

 Dandelion seed necklace pendants.

 Bottle cap magnets.

 Craft fail, partial win.

 Domino pin.

 More bottle cap magnets.

 Something different.

 Special order pendant.

 Dark "Snitch". Did not mean for it to look like a dark side version of a Golden Snitch.

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Golden_Snitch

Recycling

We were throwing away trim bolts (reels) at work. I started staring at them and came up with this......

So 6 reels and 3 hours later I have a decent jewelry display.

99% recycled. 

The roses were bought and the wire to put it together was given to me.

The ivy leaves were also rescued from work.

Steam punk inspired journal and mask (WIP)

 Steampunk inspired journal. Made March 2012.

 Steampunk inspired mask. (WIP-Work in progress) March/April 2012.

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Current distractions.

I have been out of commission for a little while due to some medical problems, and work.

I will try to do better to post more.

UFO from recycled stuff. April 2012.

Hematite And silver plate beads and findings. March 2012.

Plague Doctor Steampunk mask. Feb. 2012

Steampunk butterfly. Feb. 2012

Steampunk journal. March 2012.

Something I haven't tried before

I saw, about a year or two back, someone made a similar necklace but with sterling sliver and a yellow colored stone. I thought the design was neat and wanted to give it a go. I used wire I got at Tuesday Morning. At 99 cents a spool I didn't feel bad about using so much of it. Unlike sterling, which would have killed a tiny bit of me with every cut of the wire.

The LOST necklace, that was a monster to make.

Ideas hit me at the strangest times, and in the worst place possible.

During work one day (former job), our dispatcher was drinking an energy drink. I had never seen this brand before and the graphics on the can caught my eye. I wanted to make something out of the can but I just didn't know what. I asked the dispatcher to save me about 8 to 10 of these cans. They came in 3 different colors/graphics.

So, I sat and looked at the cans for a couple of days. Little did I know what kind of a monster I would create.

I rinsed all of the cans out. Cut the top and bottom off and mounted the can on fun foam with spray adhesive. I knew I was going to use my trusty Sizzix machine to cut out the graphics I needed. I read somewhere that mounting the can on fun foam would elminate the sharp edges of the metal when making jewelry out of soda cans.

I used the Sizzix mini tags die for the "charms". I blinged them out with mini nail gems that are usually used for manicures. Mini rhinestones and some plastic beads that I saved out of a kids dress up kit.

Then I needed a chain, which I did not have. So I made my own.

I don't like it at all, but someone in the Netherlands did. A very nice lady traded me a BUNCH of Dutch licorice for it.

I sent pictures of the necklace to the company that makes the energy drink, but I never heard back from them.

Oh well.

It was fun making it though!