Infinity

I named this piece Infinity.  Looking at it, looked like the design ends at the infinite.  Came up with this design in an attempt to use up an old cane I made during the learning process of cane making with polymer clay.  This necklace is a grand one with tube beads and textured handcrafted pc beads and complete with glass beads and adjustable cord with black and white handmade tassel ( I love making tassles) 

Random Muse

Made a jumki after a very long time.  I dread the thought of making jhumka.  This time made it with a mold.  A heavily detailed texture and I am love with that.  Added a bit of mica to bring out the beauty.  the base color is a beauty by itself.  I was so elated with this work. 

Simple Necklace

Finishing up a slab of my first Makuma Gane technique with a pendent, a dangler and a stud earring.  the pendent sways on leather cord.  The pendent is further decorated with metallic pen with self design.  you have take a closer look.  It is slightly obscured with my water mark.  

Dragonfly

A simple necklace with tassel earrings.  I was trying to get some stain glass effect with the design.  The color is vibrant. Bright green and blues apt for a child.  The pendent is on a organza cord.

Festive

Trying to make something that will take the essence of the festival.  I don't know if it did.  But I am satisfied with the work and one of friend commented it looked like wearable flower decoration called "Athapoo kalam".  That means it hit the point :) .  This was made during the festival of Onam, I think. yeah, I am so lazy to update the blog so it is difficult to remember.  Doing it today as if I a have an assignment to complete.  yes yes I do this pending work when I have found something else interesting and want to eagerly start with that.

A piece of art which I took a  long time to plan and execute.  The beads are woven with black cotton cord and adjustable cord attached.  A pair of earring to go with it. 

Photo Frame

Another image transfer technique.  This is my favorite.  This gem I found in my stash of wedding cards. This was actually a piece I made for a challenge called "into the frying pan" on my group HOP.  The pendent is finished with tube beads and simple beads made of polymer clay on matching cotton cord.

A small tutorial on how to string the pendent with all the metal parts concealed.  

The link to the trick of transferring the image is given in my previous post.

A friend had asked me to share the the secret of its stringing.  Here it is.  I am not an expert.  I take a lot of time to finish my creation.  So a lot of thought go into it. 

I do not have pictures of some of the initial steps.  I have managed some pictures for the later part.

Step 1: Bake the pendent with 2 eye pins inverted at an equal distance.  You will have the stem of the eye pin jutting out after the bake. ( No pic)

After baking the piece.
 Step2 : insert a bead into the eyepin and make a loop.

Step 3: knot the cord in the loop.  I have used a 5mm cotton cord.

Step4:  Now use a wide mouthed bead to cover the cord knot and the loop. I made a tube bead for this purpose.  Can also use store bought large mouth beads.

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Step 5: Add another bead if you wish after the tube bead.

 Step6 : knot the end, so that behind the scene is hidden, and leaves one wondering how the whole thing is strung.

 The secret  is revealed 😎😎😎

Image Transffering

A fun technique using printed paper towels.  A technique which went viral on the group by Patricia-Robert Thompson.  Click on her name will direct you to her YouTube channel.  You will find a lot of awesome tutorials.

This made me go searching for pretty printed paper towels.  My mom's kitchen was the perfect place.  Found a few there but made only one decent looking piece of jewelry :) .  I am not a kitchen person.  My craft shelves will be pretty much stocked up, more than what I may use in my lifetime.

The pendent and earrings are made of image transfer technique completed with purple shell pearl with uneven cut stone beads as spacers with a toggle clasp.