KM&V Countdown - week 4

This week was very productive, and the weekend had a to-do list like you wouldn't believe. I am so ready to sleep, and I'll leave you with theese pictures of what I got made.

The pods by the way, are on a base of opal yellow. I got some after reading a lot of raves on Lampwork Etc., but I really like ivory a lot better since it fumes over so nicely. I'll have to go back and search to see what the excellence of opal yellow is, because so far I don't see it.

I also made and cored this bead. It is a birthday present for my mother, and the colour of the 'eyes' came out especially well and shines when seen from the side. I am very pleased with it :)

That is all for now, see you next week,
Lene



Thing-a-day: Feb. 16 (Silver Cored Beads)

Today I have cored all of the beads I made last night.
It's a great feeling, getting things done.
I am very pleased that I decided to join Thing-a-day :)


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Thing-a-day: Feb. 13 (Silver Cored Beads)

Freshly cored beads :)



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(Phew! I only just made it before the date changed :)

PS: visit my thing-a-day post, my thing-a-day blog, or the complete thing-a-day project blog

Thing-a-day: Feb. 4 (Chinese Button Knot)

Here it is again that flowery bead. What did I do you ask?
Well, I made it ready for wearing, by stringing it on a leather cord. I'm not much into ordinary knots, it's not really jewelry-worthy I think, så I made this nifty chinese button knot instead.
It looks fancy and symetrical, and it's not that hard to do. This is the tut I have been using.



So for today - a knot.

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Thing-a-day: Feb. 2 (Silver Cored Bead)

Todays thing is another bead I have cored with sterling silver.
Much smaller than yesterdays bead, but with lovely mild colours.



I still do not have access to post on the project blog, but I'm hoping to get there eventually.
Or I'll just run my own little (very similar) project :)

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PS: visit my thing-a-day post, my thing-a-day blog, or the complete thing-a-day project blog

Thing-a-day: Feb. 1 (Silver Cored Bead)

Okay, so technically it's not feb 1 any more, but since I'm up I'm still counting (and backdating it a few minutes).
This is my first thing: a bead (Ta-daa!)



It's the longest I have yet cored, I used 38mms of tube for it, as opposed to usually using 12-15mms. A colleague asked me to make it, and I hope to get to make it into a nice necklace, or she might just want it on a leathercord.

Anyway - my first contribution :)

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PS: visit my thing-a-day post, my thing-a-day blog, or the complete thing-a-day project blog

Greetings to a New Year :)

I love getting to stay home for a days on end, and this christmas I got 12 days in a row (the rest of the family got 16) Yay! We love sleeping in, and so our days will slowly start and end later and later. This makes starting up again very hard on all of us, especially in the winter with all it's darkness, but we just have to get to it I guess.

This is what I made from the nifty purple bead 2 posts back. I really like it and wear it everyday, even when it clashes with my blouses :)



I'm in a bit of a purple periode these days, it's all because if the frit. I have been making all kind of shapes using the same colours and I love all of them. I definately need more fabulous frits in other colours.
Here is one I have cored, fairly large, not a bracelet size (I've made those too :).





And here some tests on other basecolours.
Yep, I definately will get more frits :)



Happy New Year!
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I did it!

Finally, I did it. And it was so easy too.

Yesterday, I sorted all my beads with 5mm holes into those that fit the Sterling tube I've got and those that doesn't.
I changed the peg on my untill now unused Impress Beadliner and tried for the very first time my tiny tubecutter, my de-buring tool and my somewhat unprecise calliper.
I read the instructions and proceeded to line my first bead. It was easy! I don't know why I have to wait so long to try a new thing, I do that most of the times I try new things by myself when it really isn't all that difficult. I am working on that :)

Anyway - here are my 3 first cored beads. Now all I need is a Dremel/-like tool to polish up the inside of the tube, that hid a white surface I hadn't noticed before. And some more tube of course :)



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