Thing-a-day: Feb.6 (Pendants)

All week I were thinking it would be easier on a saturday, to find time to make a thing, for shooting a pic and for posting.
And yet here I am posting in the last minutes of the day. Ah well ...

Todays thing is a couple of pendants I made. I love this shape of beads :)





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(PS: sorry about the bad pictures. I had to shoot them indoors at night. A re'shoot might be in order here ...)

Thing-a-day: Feb. 5 (Beads & Sculpture)

For today I have some new glasswork.



One goddess figure to display on a stand, one goddess to be worn as a pendant and 4 beads with 5mm holes for silver coring.

These were all made in one sitting, not the best, longest or most productive sitting, but how I ever got the idea that I could make a living from making beads is beyond me. Still - I'm surely going to try. Slow and steady wins the race, right?

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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. 3 (Mini Sculpture)

My third piece of a thing is this, a small glass torso, now finally and permanently glued to it's foot.





I did not make the torso today, just the glueing part, something I have been postponing forever. It is the first one I have assembled completely, and I can see I have yet again procrastinated on something very worth doing.
I am really pleased with this one and I plan on making an absolute forrest of ladies. It would be fabulous :)



This assembly is just short of 12cm, the lady herself is 4,5cm high and 2,5cm wide.

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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. 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

Now I've done it!

Sometimes we just have to challenge ourselves, and even though I have known about this project since I bumped into it last year, it still came as a bit of a surprise.
Not the project as such, but how fast january has ended and February begun. I am talking about the Thing-a-day project which begins today!! and makes you commit to making a new thing each day of February, and post it in the project blog.
I will post what I make in this blog too of course, and since this is the first day, I'll better get to it!

Sign up ends today, feb. 1'st, and I don't know which timezone, so if you want to be in on it, now would be a good time to check it out

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